John Powell is an English-born composer now based in Hollywood, who has written the music for films including Shrek, Chicken Run, the Bourne trilogy, Rio, How to Train your Dragon, the Ice Age sequels and many other major motion pictures.
The Philharmonia Voices will be recording his new work, the Prussian Requiem, an oratorio written to commemorate the outbreak of World War I, and described by the composer as ‘a requiem for the twentieth century’. We will also be singing in a handful movements of suites from his film music.