| John Van Tongeren | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | JVT |
| Genres | Film scores |
| Occupations | Composer, music producer, songwriter |
| Years active | 1980s–present |
| Website | www.johnvantongeren.net |
John Van Tongeren is a music composer, mainly for films and television series.
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Van Tongeren began his career as one of the original members of Media Ventures (now Remote Control Productions). During his time at Media Ventures Van Tongeren worked on films such as Thelma & Louise, True Romance and Drop Zone with Hans Zimmer. He also collaborated with Mark Mancina on Speed, Moll Flanders, Fair Game, Assassins and Twister.
Van Tongeren then began to compose music for television series, including Poltergeist: The Legacy and the nineties revival of The Outer Limits, which he won awards for. Van Tongeren again collaborated with Mancina the Speed sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control, and then he worked with Trevor Rabin on the 1998 film Armageddon.
Outside of film and television Van Tongeren was asked to work on three orchestrated interludes and production for the late Jazz drummer Tony Williams' 1996 album Wilderness. Van Tongeren has also worked with Chicago, Robbie Nevil, John Parr, Starship, Jeff Beck, Quincy Jones and Al Jarreau. Van Tongeren also owns The Blue Room, a recording studio in Los Angeles.
In the 2000s Van Tongeren continued working on film scores, such as xXx and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor with Randy Edelman, The Passion of the Christ with John Debney, Miss Congeniality 2 and the Disney films The Cheetah Girls and Princess Protection Program]]. He also scored more sci-fi television series including The 4400, for which he won the BMI award. His songwriting has led to platinum CDs for The Rhythm of the Pridelands - Disney, and The Cheetah Girls, as well as the hit single for Starship, It's Not over, till It's Over and 3 songs on the Wall-E Inspired by CD.
2010 saw projects including Iron Man 2 and Predators with John Debney and movies for Nickelodeon and Disney. John also wrote and produced songs on Disney's Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure and Bayou Boogie: Inspired by Princess & the Frog.
Van Tongeren has won numerous awards, the most prestigious of which have been a BMI Award and two Gemini Awards.
In 2005 Van Tongeren won a BMI Cable Award for the television series The 4400; which he shared with Tim P., Stephen Phillips, George S. Clinton and Claude Foisy. In 2000 and 2001 Van Tongeren won the Gemini Award for Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Series, for The Outer Limits; these were for the episodes "Tribunal" and "Simon Says" respectively.