Evan Lurie
Evan Lurie is an American composer and musician. Playing piano and occasionally organ, Evan was a founding member of the band the Lounge Lizards, along with his saxophonist brother John Lurie.
Lurie began studying composition with Julius Eastman in the early 1980’s. Eastman had approached him saying, "Don’t you play with the Lounge Lizards? I want to meet their keyboard player".
In 1985 he formed a quintet to perform his compositions for bandoneon. The quintet released two recordings: Pieces for Bandoneon in 1987 and Selling Water by the Side of the River in 1990.
Lurie started producing music for Nickelodeon in 2001, as the composer for their show Oswald. He was later the music director for all four seasons of the Nick Jr. series The Backyardigans, which features a different musical genre in every episode. In 2011, Lurie composed an unused song for Nickelodeon's Winx Club.
Other notable productions he has written music for include Joe Gould's Secret and Steve Buscemi's Trees Lounge.
Discography
- Happy? Here? Now?
- Pieces for Bandoneon
- Selling Water by the Side of the River
- How I Spent My Vacation
Filmography
- Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
- Final Portrait
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Winx Club
- Jack Goes Boating
- Interview
- Face Addict
- Lonesome Jim
- The Backyardigans
- The Whole Shebang
- Oswald
- Fear of Fiction
- Lisa Picard is Famous
- Happy Accidents
- Joe Gould's Secret
- Side Streets
- OK Garage
- Homo Heights
- Inferno
- Office Killer
- Trees Lounge
- Phinehas
- Death Game
- Layin' Low
- The Salesman and Other Adventures
- The Monster
- The Night We Never Met
- Under Cover of Darkness
- Johnny Stecchino
- The Kill-Off
- Kizu
- Il piccolo diavolo
- Chōchin
- The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July
- ''Subway Riders''