Personal quote Don Davis is a frequent composer of hit movies. Naturally his employment in the trilogy of The Matrix has made him a big name composer but there are several other movies which worked out respectively well. Jurassic Park III is one where he integrated John Williams' themes with his own material. And further he is the kind of composer I like the style of. He mixes on most occasions an orchestral blast with a choral accompaniment and that is what I adore of him. Efforts like Warriors of Virtue, Behind Enemy Lines and The Matrix films have proven that style with interesting results. Don Davis is also a composer that on the occasions can come up with innovating ideas and again The Matrix is one of those examples. I hope to see the composer in action much more since he has got adventurous skills to make a movie better. That he employed his techniques on duds such as Warriors of Virtue and House on Haunted Hill, and still came up with great results says enough about the man's capabilities. Biography Born on February the fourth, 1957 in Anaheim, California, Don Davis began playing trumpet and piano at the age of nine and started writing music at twelve. Davis graduated from high school and went to UCLA to study music, majoring in music theory and composition. At an early age, Davis got involved in the movie and Television business, orchestrating among others the music for the series 'The Incredible Hulk'. His first scoring assignment became Hart to Hart, scoring four episodes, later his Television credits expanded with the cool theme for Sledge Hammer, his orchestral romantic work on Beauty and the Beast and the popular show Star Trek: the Next Generation. Later he would eventually score SeaQuest DSV, The Tiny Toon Adventures and Peter Benchley's The Beast for Television. For movies, besides orchestrating for the best Horner, Kamen, Silvestri and R. Newman on the best Titanic, Legends of the Fall, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Toy Story, Don Davis also became known in the movie scoring business. Besides the sexy Bound and the adventurous Warriors of Virtue, he is immensely popular for his legendary composition for the hit movie The Matrix. Further he composed the action movie Behind Enemy Lines, the horror adventure Jurassic Park III and wrote the music for the two sequels on the Matrix, namely Reloaded and Revolutions and also composed several pieces for the animated versions namely The Animatrix. The Space Odyssey mission destined for TV received also music from him. Its been awfully quiet the last couple of years around him, The Marine, The Good Life and Ten Inch Hero are his only projects.
(on Valentine) June 29, 2001 As far as putting my own stamp on the score, I suppose that is inevitable, since I was doing the score. I was just trying to service the picture and keep it stylistically consistent with the other two films. (on Jurassic Park III) June 29, 2001 I suspect he’ll be invited to the premiere on July 16th. If he has positive comments, I hope I hear them. If he has negative comments, I hope I don’t! (on the reactions of John Williams on Jurassic Park III) September 7, 2001 Putting myself in the
position of someone in the audience, I would have wanted that continuity, you know, seeing
Jurassic Park III, I want the Jurassic Park themes!
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