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May 17, 2023 · Michael Abels is having a banner month. Eight days after winning the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music along with collaborator Rhiannon Giddens for their opera Omar, Abels won the Composers’ Choice ...
Abels is co-founder of the Composers Diversity Collective, an advocacy group to increase visibility of composers of color in film, gaming and streaming media. Michael Abels is an American composer of music for film, best known for the score for Jordan Peele’s Academy Award-winning film GET OUT.
6 days ago · Abels tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King is deliberately hopeful work, containing passages of contemplative elegy and nonviolent struggle, but emerging to an uplifting, almost naive conclusion. The piece features chanting by members of the orchestra, meant to evoke the image of people marching for a cause. The piece is performed regularly on MLK ...
Jul 25, 2022 · Michael Abels had a feast of a film to score with "Nope."Filmmaker Jordan Peele's genre-bender lets Abel play with different emotions and styles. The acclaimed summer movie can't be put in a box ...
Michael Abels is an American composer of music for film, best-known for his scores for the Oscar-winning film GET OUT, and for Jordan Peele’s US.
May 15, 2023 · Composer Michael Abels Robin L Marshall/FilmMagic Giddens reached out to Abels because she heard the epic music he created for 2017’s Get Out and knew they could bring Omar to life together ...
