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Torjussen was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1976 and is a fluent Welsh speaker.
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Ceiri Torjussen
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University of New York
Career
Showing a passion for music from an early age, he started playing the trumpet and piano at the age of eight, and began composing soon after. Although formally trained in classical music, he played in and arranged for various soul, jazz, funk and disco bands and began scoring television documentaries whilst still in high school. In addition to the main canon of western music from the Middle Ages to the present, his musical interests have included a special love for jazz, electronic music, and for certain non-western music, especially Indonesian Gamelan and Indian classical music, the result of seven months teaching and traveling the Indian subcontinent in 1995.
Following his travels, he gained his Bachelor"s degree in Composition at the University of York, United Kingdom, with a First Class Honours and his Masters at the University of Southern California, Los Los Angeles
Ceiri Torjussen has scored six feature films to date. In 2006 Undoing, a noir-thriller, premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and Mentor, starring Rutger Hauer, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Most recently he composed music for, Live Free or Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis. His music includes genre such as horror (Dracula III: Legacy, Soul’s Midnight, and additional music for Underworld: Evolution) and comedy (Funky Monkey and additional music for Scary Movie II).
He provided additional music for the World Bank television show Glory Days, the Columbia Broadcasting System network shows Cold Case and Close to Home, and for the series Dead Like Maine, on Showtime.
Torjussen has also worked on The Mr. Men and Dive Olly Dive for which he received a 2007 Daytime Emmy Nomination for Best Original Score. Torjussen has also orchestrated and conducted on feature films Hellboy, and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
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