Elia Cmiral
- Composer
- Music Department
- Director
Elia Cmiral (pronounced smear-al)'s first break came when his father
let him score "Cyrano de Bergerac" at his theater when he was just
eighteen years old. But before he could build a career in
Czechoslovakia, he escaped to Sweden and, to his surprise, was soon
asked to score a full-length battle for the National Theater entitled
"Nemesis." Deciding to study film scoring in the United States, he
moved to Los Angeles in 1987 and enrolled at USC. Through some friends,
he had the opportunity to score the cult film "Apartment Zero." In
1989, he was offered a grant from Sweden to produce his own record, and
he moved back. Four years later, in the winter of 1993, Elia moved back
to Los Angeles and resumed his scoring career. In 1996, Don Johnson
hired him to score the first season episodes and theme for his new
series, "Nash Bridges, " on CBS. Elia also scored "Somebody Is Waiting,
" with the same director from "Apartment Zero, " but it didn't get any
US distribution. His big break came when Michael Sandovall, of
MGM/United Artists, gave Elia the opportunity to audition for John
Frankenheimer's "Ronin." The score was released on Varese Sarabande to
rave reviews, and Elia signed to be represented by "The
Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, " the largest film scoring agency in the
world.
