Robert Elhai is a composer/arranger/orchestrator currently residing in Minneapolis. A graduate of Carleton College, the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati and the Yale School of music (where he received a DMA in composition under the primary tutelage of Martin Bresnick and Jacob Druckman), his compositions and arrangements have been heard around the world. His orchestrations have been heard live at the Metropolitan Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera (in Terence Blanchard’s Champion) and the LA Opera and NY City Opera (Elliot Goldenthal’s Grendel), as well as at performances by The London Symphony Orchestra, The National Symphony, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, The St Paul Chamber Orchestra, and many others. A Tony and Drama Desk nominee (as well as an Ivor Novello Award winner) for his arrangements and orchestrations for Broadway’s The Lion King, he contributed orchestrations to music written for films (Elliot Goldenthal’s Oscar-winning score to Frida), TV shows (Jeff Toyne’s Emmy-winning main title for Palm Royale), and records (Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony’s Grammy-winning score to S & M), as well as for theater, ballet, video games, arena shows, advertisements, theme park rides, the Olympics, and pretty much anything that involves music played by an orchestra.
(photo: Rick Spaulding)
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