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Craig Armstrong

1959 - Today

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Craig Armstrong, (born 29 April 1959) is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica and film scores. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1981, and has since written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. Armstrong's score for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello. He would collaborate with Luhrmann again on his next two films, Moulin Rouge! Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Craig Armstrong is the 1,232nd most popular composer (down from 1,204th in 2019), the 4,173rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,805th in 2019) and the 66th most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Craig Armstrong ranks 1,232 out of 1,451. Before him are David Diamond, Tadeusz Baird, Andrei Eshpai, Knudåge Riisager, Oskar Kolberg, and Michel Colombier. After him are Sanja Ilić, Tofig Guliyev, Granville Bantock, Alfrēds Kalniņš, Boris Tishchenko, and Cecilia Seghizzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Craig Armstrong ranks 306. Before him are Dylan Baker, Roland Grapow, Thomas Allofs, Timoleón Jiménez, Jeanette Winterson, and Rineke Dijkstra. After him are Tsitsi Dangarembga, Anne Smith, Fyodor Cherenkov, Hiroshi Soejima, Ulrike Richter, and Lone Scherfig.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Craig Armstrong ranks 4,174 out of 8,785. Before him are Julian Bailey (1961), David Lloyd (1950), Sid Kimpton (1887), Julian Richings (1955), Robert Wight (1796), and G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903). After him are Wilko Johnson (1947), Muriel Freeman (1897), Marmaduke Pickthall (1875), A. E. Housman (1859), Joseph Grimaldi (1778), and Roy Wood (1946).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Craig Armstrong ranks 66. Before him are Clint Mansell (1963), Thomas Weelkes (1576), Charles Avison (1709), Fred Frith (1949), Thomas Linley the younger (1756), and Adolph Deutsch (1897). After him are Granville Bantock (1868), Thomas Campion (1567), Ivor Novello (1893), George Alexander Macfarren (1813), Rachel Portman (1960), and Gerald Finzi (1901).

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