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![[press release]](../../images/banner/press_release.gif)
FILM
COMPOSER
J.
PETER ROBINSON
REVVING
UP TO PREMIERE
“WORLD’S
FASTEST INDIAN” In Theaters Feb. 3
(Hollywood, CA) Multitalented musician/songwriter/composer J. Peter Robinson has scored Roger Donaldson’s film “World’s Fastest Indian,” which just premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. Among New Zealand’s Top 10 local earning films of all time, “World’s Fastest Indian” will premiere with a limited national release on February 3, 2006. Robinson’s score sets the tone for the inspirational true life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in the 1970s. The film stars Anthony Hopkins, Bruce Greenwood and Diane Ladd and is directed by Roger Donaldson. This project marks the third time Peter Robinson has collaborated with Donaldson.
Classically
trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Peter Robinson began
his recording career in London as the pianist for Andrew Lloyd Webber
and Tim Rice on "Jesus Christ Superstar." Peter achieved his
first major break in film composition when John Schlesinger called on
him to create the eerily percussive score to "The Believers".
Soon after, Robinson composed the score to Phillip Noyce's
action-thriller "Blind Fury," which caught the attention of
director Roger Donaldson. Donaldson
hired him to score the Tom Cruise bartending classic "Cocktail,”
and later, "Cadillac Man."
Peter Robinson’s score to the action-comedy “Mr. Nice Guy” was the
third of a three-picture deal for New Line Cinema and Jackie Chan, which
included “Rumble in the Bronx" and "Jackie Chan's First
Strike." Robinson's longtime relationship with New Line Cinema grew
from several collaborations with horror legend Wes Craven. His scores
for Craven include “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare,” "Vampire in
Brooklyn,” “Nightmare Café” and “Don't Look Down.” New Line
also turned to Robinson to score the sizzling opening sequence for
"Frequency.” Other Robinson credits include "Fifteen
Minutes," "Wayne's World," "Encino Man" and
co-composing the end title song for the animated film “The
Wild Thornberrys”
Robinson became so busy composing for film that he reluctantly stopped touring as a rock and roll musician—a career that spanned more than twenty years and included a eight-year stint as Phil Collins’ keyboard player and collaborations as a writer, arranger, and/or co-producer with Eric Clapton, Melissa Etheridge and Al Jarreau, to name a few.