Trevor Morris (musician)

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Trevor Morris

Born|  (1970-05-25) 25 May 1970 (age 54)
London, Ontario, Canada
Genres| Film score, video game score
Occupation(s)| Film composer, music producer
Years active| 1999–present
Labels| Remote Control Productions
Website| http://www.trevormorris.com/

Musical artist

Trevor Morris (born 25 May 1970) is a Canadian orchestral composer and music producer. His scores include the television shows The Tudors, The Pillars of the Earth, The Borgias, and Vikings; the film Olympus Has Fallen and its sequel London Has Fallen; and the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition. He was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music for his score for The Borgias and for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or A Special (Original Dramatic Score) for his score for The Pillars of the Earth.

## Life and work

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Morris was born in London, Ontario, Canada, 2 hours west of Toronto. He was accepted to St. Mary's school for the arts as a child, where he studied violin and choir daily. At age 13, Morris was commissioned by his school to compose a piece for his graduating class to perform in honor of the Pope John Paul II's visit to Canada. His fee was $50. Beloved Young People, a book authored by the Pope aimed at the youth of the generation became the source for adapted lyrics, and Trevor's senior class performed his composition for Piano and 4-part Choir at St. Mary's cathedral at graduation. It was a defining moment that would shape Trevor's future.

At college Morris attended, Fanshawe College's "Music Industry Arts" program. He graduated top of his class and upon graduation immediately moved to Toronto to start work. He spent his 20s in the music production circles of Toronto but eventually turned his attention away from production and over to composing full-time music for television commercials. Wanting a longer format for his music ideas, Morris moved towards scoring films and television series and in 1999 he moved to Los Angeles to follow this new career angle. During his early years in Los Angeles, Morris worked with famous score composers, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer. As part of Zimmer's team, Morris amassed over 25 major screen credits on some of Hollywood's block busters.

As Morris' own career in composition developed, so did the opportunity to directly collaborate with others such as Jerry Bruckheimer, Neil Jordan and Tony and Ridley Scott. In 2007 Morris received the EMMY award for best music composition for a television series main title for The Tudors. 2010 marked Morris' fourth television collaboration with Jerry Bruckheimer and his team. Morris also completed the mini-series The Pillars of the Earth with Tony and Ridley Scott producing. Morris has worked as composer on a number of video games including SimCity Societies, Army of Two, Need for Speed: Carbon and most recently, for the epic third installment of the Dragon Age series by BioWare, Dragon Age: Inquisition as well as films such as The Hills Have Eyes 2, and The Marine 2. He produced the score for the 2013 film Olympus Has Fallen.

Morris maintains a production company in Toronto with his partners. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles with his family.

## Discography

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### Films

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Studio(s)  | Notes

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1999  | Teen Knight | Phil Comeau  | The Kushner-Locke Company
Castel Films
Canarom Productions  |
2001  | Hunger | Maria Giese | Market Street Productions  |
2002  | Judge Is God | James Allen  |  | Short
2003  | Terminal Venus | Alexandre Franchi  |  | Short
2004  | Rancid | Jack Ersgard  | Sonet Film  | Swedish language
2005  | The Lost Angel | Dimitri Logothetis  | Elio Pictures
4 Square Productions Canada
Synergy Movies  |
2005  | 3 Needles | Thom Fitzgerald | Bigfoot Entertainment
Emotion Pictures
Wolfe Releasing  | Composed with Christophe Beck
2007  | The Hills Have Eyes 2 | Martin Weisz | Fox Atomic
Dune Entertainment |
2009  | Stolen | Anders Anderson  | IFC Films |
2009  | The Marine 2 | Roel Reiné | 20th Century Fox
WWE Films | Direct-to-video
2010  | Krews | Hilbert Hakim  | Osiris Entertainment
KH Krews Productions  |
2010  | Beautiful Boy | Shawn Ku | Anchor Bay Entertainment |
2011  | Tornado Alley | Sean C. Casey | Giant Screen Films
Graphic Films  |
2011  | Immortals | Tarsem Singh | Relativity Media
Virgin Produced
Rogue |
2012  | Gotham | Francis Lawrence | 20th Television | Television
2012  | The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption | Roel Reiné | Universal Pictures | Direct-to-video
2012  | Fire with Fire | David Barrett | Lionsgate |
2013  | Death Race 3: Inferno | Roel Reiné | Universal Pictures | Direct-to-video
2013  | Olympus Has Fallen | Antoine Fuqua | FilmDistrict
Millennium Films |
2016  | London Has Fallen[1] | Babak Najafi | Focus Features
Millennium Films |
2016  | Hard Target 2 | Roel Reiné | Universal 1440 Entertainment | Composed with Jack Wall
Direct-to-video
2018  | Redbad | Splendid Films
Epic Pictures Group |
Asura | Peng Zhang  | Alibaba Pictures |
Hunter Killer | Donovan Marsh  | Summit Entertainment |

### Television

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Year  | Title  | Network  | Notes

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1997  | Splat! | Nickelodeon Studios |
2000  | Code Name: Eternity | Sci Fi Channel |
2005–2006  | E-Ring | NBC |
2006–2007  | Justice | Fox |
2007  | Traveler | ABC | Episode: "The Retreat"
Co-composed with Blake Neely
2007–2008  | Moonlight | CBS | Co-composed with John Frizzell
2007–2010  | The Tudors | Showtime |
2009  | Kings | NBC |
Mental | Fox Television Studios |
2010  | Day One | NBC | Episode: "Pilot"
The Bridge | CTV |
Miami Medical | CBS |
The Pillars of the Earth | Starz | TV miniseries
2010–2011  | Chase | NBC |
2011–2013  | The Borgias | Showtime |
2012  | The Firm | NBC |
Alphas | Syfy | Co-composed with Edward Rogers
2013–2020  | Vikings | History
Netflix | Additional contributions by Wardruna & Einar Selvik
2013  | Body of Proof | ABC | Composed Season 3
Dracula | NBC |
2013–2017  | Reign | The CW |
2017–2019  | Shadowhunters | Freeform | Co-composed with Jack Wall
2017  | Iron Fist | Netflix | Composed Season 1
2017–2018  | Taken | NBC |
2017–2021  | Castlevania | Netflix |
2018–2020  | Condor | Audience
Epix |
2019–2021  | Another Life | Netflix |
2020–2023  | Big Sky | ABC |
2022–2024  | Vikings: Valhalla | Netflix | Additional contributions by Lustmord
2023–present  | Castlevania: Nocturne | Co-composed with Trey Toy

### Video games

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Year  | Title  | Studio  | Notes

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2006  | Need for Speed: Carbon | Electronic Arts |
2007  | SimCity Societies |
2007  | Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars | Co-composed with Steve Jablonsky
2008  | Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
2008  | Army of Two |
2009  | Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 | Activision |
2014  | Dragon Age: Inquisition | Electronic Arts |
2024  | Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden | Don't Nod |

## Awards

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Year  | Award  | Category

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2007 | Primetime Emmy Award | Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music (for The Tudors)[2]

## References

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1. ^ "Trevor Morris to Return for 'London Has Fallen' | Film Music Reporter".
2. ^ "Awards for Trevor Morris". imdb.com. Retrieved 22 November 2009.

## External links

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* Trevor Morris at IMDb
* Trevor Morris: Composer
* Interview with Trevor Morris (The Daily Film Music Blog)
* Borgias official website at Bravo!

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music

1990s|

* Star Trek: Deep Space Nine by Dennis McCarthy (1993)
* seaQuest DSV by John Debney (1994)
* Star Trek: Voyager by Jerry Goldsmith (1995)
* Murder One by Mike Post (1996)
* EZ Streets by Mark Isham (1997)
* Fame L.A. by Robbie Buchanan, Maribeth Derry, Richard Barton Lewis, and Tom Snow (1998)
* Trinity by Martin Davich (1999)

2000s|

* The West Wing by W. G. Snuffy Walden (2000)
* Gideon's Crossing by James Newton Howard (2001)
* Six Feet Under by Thomas Newman (2002)
* Monk by Jeff Beal (2003)
* Monk by Randy Newman (2004)
* Desperate Housewives by Danny Elfman (2005)
* Masters of Horror by Edward Shearmur (2006)
* The Tudors by Trevor Morris (2007)
* Pirate Master by Russ Landau (2008)
* Great Performances by John Williams (2009)

2010s|

* Nurse Jackie by Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin (2010)
* The Borgias by Trevor Morris (2011)
* Page Eight by Paul Englishby (2012)
* Da Vinci's Demons by Bear McCreary (2013)
* Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey by Alan Silvestri (2014)
* Transparent by Dustin O'Halloran (2015)
* Marvel's Jessica Jones by Sean Callery (2016)
* Stranger Things by Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon (2017)
* Godless by Carlos Rafael Rivera (2018)
* Succession by Nicholas Britell (2019)

2020s|

* Hollywood by Nathan Barr (2020)
* The Flight Attendant by Blake Neely (2021)
* The White Lotus by Cristobal Tapia de Veer (2022)
* Wednesday by Danny Elfman (2023)
* Palm Royale by Jeff Toyne (2024)

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