Ari Frankel

Personal Bio

ARI FRANKEL, an award-winning composer/writer (arifrankel.com/portfolio.html), has collaborated with Fiona Shaw, Michael Apted, Barry Rebo, Suzanne Ciani, Anthony Minghella, John Kelly, Muna Tseng, Arthur Penn, William H. Macy, Elizabeth Kemp, The Actors Studio, and many others.

He has explored The Tibetan Book of the Dead, T.S. Eliot, The Old Testament, Anne Sexton, Ezra Pound, Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Primo Levi. Soundtracks include Miramax/Robert Redford’s “Incident At Oglala”, Rebo Studios/NHK’s “Passage To Vietnam”, and “Doctors Without Frontiers”, Barrons’ “Once Upon a Potty”, Nickelodeon’s “Eureeka’s Castle”, and Simon & Schuster Audio’s “R.L.Stine’s Ghosts of Fear Street” series.

A Grammy nominee and International TV & Film Festival awards winner, The Glasgow Herald felt “true passion” in Ari’s work, The London Times marveled at “light seeming materials building an overwhelming effect,” and The Village Voice determined his “emotionally charged originality” is “wonderfully poignant and plangent.”