Клаус Баделт

Klaus Badelt was writing for German film and advertising when Hans Zimmer invited him to California in 1998, and the Media Ventures years put his hand into The Thin Red Line, The Prince of Egypt, Gladiator, Hannibal and Pearl Harbor as arranger, producer and composer of additional music. Born in Frankfurt in 1967, he stepped out on his own with The Time Machine, K-19: The Widowmaker and Equilibrium, and then with Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, credited to him and produced by Zimmer. He founded Theme Park Studios, worked in French, German and Chinese cinema, and composed music for the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. He also composed the score for Chen Kaige’s The Promise.