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American composer
Joseph LoDuca
(born 1958) is an American television and
film score
composer
best known for his work writing television scores for the series
Spartacus
,
Leverage
,
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
,
Xena: Warrior Princess
,
Young Hercules
,
The Librarians
TV series,
American Gothic
and
Jack of All Trades
. Originally an accomplished jazz guitarist in the
Detroit
(MI, USA) area, LoDuca frequently provides music for producer/director
Robert Tapert
, producer/director
Sam Raimi
, producer/director
Dean Devlin
and actor
Bruce Campbell
's films and series. Prior to his work on
The Evil Dead
, his first film, he released a
jazz
LP titled
Glisten
.
LoDuca's credits include 2
Primetime Emmy Awards
, 11 Primetime Emmy Nominations, and "Most Performed Underscore" recognitions from
ASCAP
for four consecutive years. He garnered a
Cesar Award
nomination;
Meilleure Musique Ecrite Pour Un Film
(Best Music) and a
Saturn Award
nomination
[1]
for the French international film
Brotherhood of the Wolf
, as well as being lauded as "Horror Film Composer of the Year" for his score to
Army of Darkness
.
LoDuca was nominated for and won the
Emmy Award
in 2009 for
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series
for his music in
Legend of the Seeker
.
[2]
LoDuca played in a rock band in his teens, before studying literature and composition at the
University of Michigan
and
Wayne State University
. He claimed to prefer composition, because it let him "run among the disciplines without getting caught".
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