John Du Prez is a Grammy Award winning composer (A FISH CALLED WANDA, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, SPAMALOT). A Trevelyan Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford he worked as a Music Lecturer at London University Goldsmiths College until 1979 when he entered the film industry composing additional music for Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Developing his film work during the early 1980s with Monty Python & George Harrison’s Handmade Films he also played trumpet on eight Top 40 hits with the UK salsa band Modern Romance. The success of A FISH CALLED WANDA took him to America where he scored the three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies and Weird Al Jankovic’s cult classic UHF. In 2001 he co-wrote MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT with Eric Idle which won them both Grammies and the 2005 Tony for Best Musical, both rare awards for a British musical. He conducted their comic oratorio Not The Messiah (commissioned by Toronto Symphony ) on a world tour which included Sydney Opera House, Houston Opera, Wolftrap (NSO), Hollywood Bowl ( LA Phil ) and finally the Albert Hall ( BBC Symphony ) for the Monty Python 40th Anniversary. In 2014 he was appointed Music Director for the Monty Python O2 Arena concerts and then began scoring 104 episodes of the Bafta Award winning TV Series The Clangers. Future projects include a Live To Screen version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and a new stage musical version of A FISH CALLED WANDA.
- Tim Acito
- Daniel S. Acquisto
- Marion Adler
- Gerard Alessandrini
- Todd Almond
- Billy Aronson
- John August
- Glen Ballard
- Annie Barrows
- Chad Beguelin
- David H. Bell
- Neil Berg
- Jonanthan Bernstein
- Craig Bohmler
- Stephen Bray
- Edie Brickell
- Marshall Brickman
- Jason Robert Brown
- David Bryan
- Sammy Buck
- Craig Carnelia
- Warren Casey
- Philip Cody
- Michael Colby
- Patrick Cook
- Gareth Cooper
- Bob Crewe
- Ryan Cunningham
- Joan Cushing
- Lear deBessonet
- Alexander Dinelaris
- Joe DiPietro
- Jeremy Dobrish
- Jenna Donnelly
- Anthony Drewe
- John Du Prez
- Fred Ebb
- Rick Elice
- Stephan Elliott
- Scott Elmegreen
- Ben Elton
- Colin Escott
- Gloria Estefan
- Emilio Estefan
- Beth Falcone
- Julian Fellowes
- Jeffrey Finn
- Drew Fornarola
- Frederick Freyer
- Mark Friedman
- Larry Gallagher
- Bob Gaudio
- Ned Paul Ginsburg
- Kenneth Grahame
- Howard Greenfield
- John Gregor
- Sean Hartley
- Jon Hartmere
- Alex Higgin-Houser
- Rupert Holmes
- David Howard
- John Michael Howson
- Alison Hubbard
- Eric Idle
- Damon Intrabartolo
- Erik Jackson
- Jim Jacobs
- John Kander
- Victoria Kann
- Elizabeth Kann
- Lawrence Kasdan
- David Kisor
- Timothy Knapman
- David Kornfeld
- Stephen Lawrence
- Robert Lindsey-Nassif
- Andrew Lippa
- Larry Little
- Ethan Lewis Maltby
- Richard Maltby, Jr.
- Melissa Manchester
- Sonia Manzano
- Dylan MarcAurele
- Steve Martin
- Bob Martin
- Joseph McDonough
- Bill Meade
- Nick Meglin
- Britt Menzies
- Brendan Milburn
- Peter C. Mills
- David Mitchell
- Melvyn Morrow
- Floyd Mutrux
- Marsha Norman
- Kim Oler
- Fitz Patton
- Greg Pierce
- Stuart Matthew Price
- Queen
- Cara Reichel
- Mike Reid
- Dan Remmes
- Bruce Joel Rubin
- Brenda Russell
- Mark Saltzman
- Joshua Salzman
- Sarah Schlesinger
- Allan Scott
- Neil Sedaka
- William Shakespeare
- Molly Shannon
- Rachel Sheinkin
- Bret Simmons
- Matthew Sklar
- Dave Stewart
- George Stiles
- Peter Stone
- Laura Stratford
- Peter Ullian
- Sharon Vaughn
- Valerie Vigoda
- Janet Yates Vogt
- Bob Walton
- Simon Warne
- Eric H. Weinberger
- Scott Wentworth
- Annabel Wigoder
- Allee Willis
- Ben H. Winters