He started playing the piano at 4 and never took a formal ... Film director Ridley Scott on working with Vangelis Since then, Vangelis has composed music for ballet, theater and several projects ...

And yet most of his film score work was never released, and he often said he had much more music ‘in the vault’ than he ever released. As a child, Vangelis was exposed to the piano, which he took to ...

He was a self-taught musician who became a young piano prodigy ... "It's very difficult not to make music," Vangelis told NPR in 1977. "It's as natural as I eat, as I make love.

No cause of death was revealed. Vangelis, who began playing piano at age 3 but never learned to read or write music, also produced the dystopian score for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982 ...

Vangelis’s music became as popular as the film itself ... which produced the sounds of horns and bass, with an electric piano and a second synthesizer that emulated strings.

Vangelis started playing the piano at age 4, although he got no formal training and claimed he never learned to read notes. "Orchestration, composition - they teach these things in music schools ...

When composing film music, Vangelis would sit and watch the movie ... I can remember as a child putting chains in my parents’ piano just to see how it would affect the sound!

His father was “in property,” he told the Los Angeles Times, and was “a great lover of music.” Vangelis began playing the piano at 4 but received little formal training. He soon started ...

Vangelis, the electronic-music pioneer who won an Oscar for ... including synthesizer, piano, drums and percussion. His memorable theme not only entranced moviegoers but the soundtrack reached ...

Vangelis started playing the piano at age 4, although he got no formal training and claimed he never learned to read notes. “Orchestration, composition — they teach these things in music ...

Vangelis started playing the piano at age 4, although he got no formal training and claimed he never learned to read notes. "Orchestration, composition — they teach these things in music schools ...