JOHN DU PREZ (Music). A Grammy® Award-winning composer, John Du Prez has scored over 20 feature films including A Fish Called Wanda, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I-III, Once Bitten, The Meaning of Life, and the cult classic, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s UHF. A Trevelyan Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford (Oriental Studies) he worked as a Music Lecturer at London University 1974 -9 and was Principal Horn of the Hong Kong Philharmonic and many other orchestras. He entered the film industry composing additional music for Monty Python’s Life of Brian. It was on this project that he first worked with Eric Idle. This began their long writing partnership which culminated in Spamalot and Not The Messiah. He also worked on two movies for George Harrison’s Handmade Films (Bullshot and Shanghai Surprise) and played trumpet on many Top 20 hits with the UK salsa band Modern Romance, winners of the Best New Band 1981 award from the NY DJ Syndicate for their club hit Everybody Salsa. He was Music Director for Python’s 2014 O2 Arena concerts and recently scored the Bafta Award winning TV animation series The Clangers. He currently lives in Burbank, CA and has several new musicals in development. johnduprez.com