Paul Cantelon

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Paul Cantelon (1965-12-25 in Glendale, California -) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.

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[edit] Background

He was a music prodigy who made his violin debut at the age of 13 at UCLA's Royce Hall. Inspired by the work of Donalee Reubenet, he started piano studies. He studied with Andre Gauthier at the Geneva Conservatory of Music in Switzerland, Jacob Lateiner at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, and Vlado Perlemuter at the Paris Conservatory.

[edit] Music

Over the course of his career, he has released a number of solo classical piano recordings, including the following:

  • In the Morning Early (a collection of Celtic hymns) (1978)
  • Paul Cantelon Solo Piano
  • A Modern Day Mozart (1998)
  • Nightwood, 24 Preludes for Solo Piano
  • Point No Point (2001)

He is a founding member of the American alternative band Wild Colonials, in which he plays violin, piano, and accordion. Since the 1990s, he has also recorded and performed with a diverse range of artists including Yo Yo Ma, Joe Cocker, The Kinks, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, George Clinton, Rickie Lee Jones, King Crimson, Everclear, and Ry Cooder. He has guested on Perla Betalla's debut album, Everclear's So Much For The Afterglow, Lili Hayden's Lili, Loup Garou's Dobb's Ferry, and Sara Sant'Ambrogio's Dreaming.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, he played piano in a jazz-inflected group that also featured Lili Haydn on violin, Martin Tillman on cello, and Satnam Singh Ramgotra on tablas. They released a self-titled CD under the name Luciana's Wish. In 2000, under the name Tryptich, they released an EP of cover songs called Curio, with vocals by Angela McCluskey.

[edit] Music for Film

In recent years, he is perhaps best known for compositions for films, which include the following:

In addition, he composed a special centenary score for Battleship Potemkin in 1995.

[edit] Personal

His mother was a trumpeter in the Philadelphia Symphony, and his father was an evangelist.

At age 17, he had a serious bicycle accident which left him in a coma. When he emerged from the coma a month later, he had significant amnesia. As a result, he had to relearn music.

He is married to Wild Colonial vocalist Angela McCluskey. When they were in their early 20s, they met in London at the Star of India, where he was playing, and she was dining with British actor Hugh Grant.

His brother is the multi-talented photographer/artist/writer/musician Lee Cantelon.

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