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Michael Abels (born October 8, 1962) is an American composer best known for the opera Omar, co-written with Rhiannon Giddens, and his scores for the Jordan Peele films Get Out, Us and Nope. The hip-hop influenced score for Us was short-listed for the Oscars and was even named "Score of the Decade" by TheWrap. Other recent media projects include ...
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.
Oct 21, 2022 · How Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels turned an enslaved man’s narrative into an opera. Jamez McCorkle stars in “Omar,” which adapts the autobiography of a Muslim scholar who was sold into...
May 8, 2023 · By Joshua Barone. May 8, 2023. “I mean, look: I’m bowled over right now,” the polymathic musician Rhiannon Giddens said from her home in Ireland on Monday, shortly after winning the Pulitzer Prize...
Mar 25, 2019 · Abels was a music teacher who had never scored a film when he was hired for Jordan Peele's Get Out and now Us. Peele hired him after a fruitless search for an African-American film composer.
With a "keen ear for musical color and a deft ability to adapt structural elements from popular music into the symphonic idiom" (Houston Chronicle), Michael Abels has gained widespread recognition for his orchestral pieces Global Warming and Frederick's Fables.
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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.
