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David G.
Russell
BIOGRAPHY:
 David
Russell comes to the Hollywood community by way of many different roads.
His background is varied encompassing a deep love of acoustic and
orchestral music with an extensive knowledge of technology.
After graduating from Virginia
Commonwealth University with a Bachelor of Music degree in Classical
Guitar Performance, David earned a Master of Music degree in Media Writing
and Production from the University of Miami. He then returned to Virginia
to teach Computer and Electronic Music classes at the University of
Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University. It was in Richmond that
David's professional composing career began when he worked at In Your Ear
Music as a staff composer and engineer scoring commercials for such
clients as Circuit City and The Virginia Lottery as well as the film
Abracadabra.
While in Virginia, David was
also a contributing composer, arranger and Music Director for the world
premiere of The Red Badge of Courage, a musical.
Soon after relocating to Southern California, David worked as an assistant
to composer John Frizzell. It was here that he worked as an orchestrater
on the movies The Rich Man's Wife, Undertow and The Empty Mirror. The
latter of which David served as head orchestrator and was shown at the
1996 Cannes Film Festival. He also worked as an arranger/orchestrater on
The Precinct, a television pilot for Big Ticket Television and contributed
to the music preproduction for Crime of the Century and Beavis and
Butthead Do America.
David has also worked with composer Shirley Walker as an orchestrator and
sequencer programmer on the film Turbulence as well as recording and
mixing the score to the NBC mini-series Asteroid and an episode of HBO's
animated series Spawn.
Other
films and projects David has worked on include The Siege (transcription);
Universal's Islands of Adventure (composer
asst.); Superman: The Animated Series (orchestrator); The Stupids
(transcription); McHale's Navy (asst. orchestrater); and The King and I
(composer asst.).
As a composer, David has worked in TV,
Film and Interactive media. In addition to Black Scorpion, David also
scored the film The Phantom Eye for Roger Corman which aired as both a
feature and 35 episode serial during American Movie Classics' MonsterFest.
He also scored the game Disney's Math Quest with Aladdin for Disney
Interactive.
David's recent film credits include White Bread, an independent feature
starring Jenny McCarthy; the award winning film The Nest and the upcoming
feature Wicked Spring, a story of the Civil War. |
