Brad Fiedel is a highly successful American film composer. He has a reputation as one of the most accomplished masters of electronic and synthesized music for film scores, and is associated most strongly with action, science fiction, suspense, and horror genres.
Fiedel began to learn the piano when he was a six-year-old in New York City. In the early 1970s he got a job working on tours with the pop duo Hall and Oates, and during this period decided to become a film composer.
He began working for independent filmmakers and in television; his first scoring credit was for Apple...