American Composer.
Aaron ZIGMAN is quickly proving to be one of the most prolific and versatile composers in film music today. The Emmy®-winning songwriter plants one foot in the world of pop idioms and the other in the emotional scope of a symphony orchestra to create narrative scores that complement each genre he's assigned-and with more than 50 film credits to his name, that has encompassed everything from the passionate romance The Notebook, to the fantastical adventure in Bridge to Terabithia, to the sensitivity of For Colored Girls.
A classically trained pianist since childhood, Zigman began his musical career as a session keyboardist, arranger, and as a producer to popular music stars. Soon his resume boasted names like Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Phil Collins, Oleta Adams, Tina Turner, Patti Labelle, Chicago, Nona Gaye, Carly Simon, Huey Lewis, Christina Aguilera and Seal.
In 2002 Aaron Zigman scored his first feature, the Denzel Washington thriller John Q, for director Nick Cassavetes which began an ongoing composer-director collaboration; Zigman went on to score three more films for Cassavetes. Their next project was The Notebook, the wildly successful adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' romantic novel, starring Gena Rowlands and James Garner. Their most recent collaboration was "My Sister's Keeper," starring Cameron Diaz.
Zigman's versatile credits include the family adventure fantasy film "Bridge to Terabithia;" "Akeelah & The Bee," starring Laurence Fishbourne and Angela Bassett; "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium," which he co-scored with Alexandre Desplat; the period drama "Flash of Genius" starring Greg Kennear; Tyler Perry's "For Colored Girls;" and the dark drama "Alpha Dog," another collaboration with Nick Cassavettes. In the past few years, Zigman has had three romantic hits with "Sex and the City," "The Proposal" starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, and "The Ugly Truth" starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. In addition, Zigman has scored the last nine Tyler Perry films. Other scores include "Sex and the City 2" and "The Company Men" starring Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper.
Zigman's broad musical palette is further evident in his diverse body of work. He masterfully transferred small screen success to the big screen by scoring both films based on the hit HBO series Sex and the City; the timely story of a downturn economy in The Company Men; the sexy rhythm of three Step Up films; the sports biopic Pride; the sweet equestrian ride of Flicka and the touching John Cusack drama Martian Child. Tackling another Nicholas Sparks adaptation, The Last Song, in 2010, Zigman wrote the instrumental "Steve's Song"-which debuted at number one on the Billboard charts. Going for another record, in 2007 Aaron Zigman scored an unprecedented nine films in one year. Inexhaustible and unlimited in his capabilities, Zigman has risen to the highest ranks of today's film composers.