CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZ composed the score for the animated family comedy "Hop," as well as "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore," the family comedy "Marmaduke" and the seventh season of the hit television series "Supernatural." His other feature film work also includes the box office hit "Alvin and the Chipmunks," "The Comebacks," "The Perfect Christmas," "Meet the Spartans," "Disaster Movie," "The Open Road" and the 2009 critically acclaimed drama "Adam." Lennertz also collaborated with Academy Award®-winning composer Dave Grusin on the documentary "Harmony."
Lennertz's previous film projects include "Sharkbait," "The Deal," "Dr. Doolittle 3," and work on "Soul Plane," which he co-composed with The RZA from Wu-Tang Clan. His eclectic music for "Tortilla Heaven" won a Film & TV Music Award for best score for an independent feature in 2007.
In 2006, Lennertz earned an Emmy Award nomination for his work on the hit series "Supernatural." His additional television work includes "The Deep End"; "The Strip," produced by Joel Silver; "Brimstone"; and "Clive Barker's Saint Sinner," for the Sci-Fi Channel, named one of Cinescape's top releases of 2002 and ranked in the year's top ten by Film Music Review.
He is also well known as a video game composer, contributing scores for such games as Tiberium, The Godfather II, James Bond: Quantum of Solace, Warhawk, The Simpsons, James Bond: From Russia With Love, Gun, Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, Medal of Honor: European Assault, and Golden Eye. His string arrangements on the Ozomatli album "Street Signs" won a Grammy Award for best Latin rock album of the year, and his full-blown orchestral score for the blockbuster video game Medal of Honor: Rising Sun won the Interactive Achievement Award for best original music of 2003. He was nominated again in 2005 for Gun.
Lennertz began his musical training at age nine. After studying composition, jazz arranging and theory in high school, he studied at USC's Thornton School of music with film music luminaries Elmer Bernstein, Buddy Baker, Christopher Young and David Raksin. Upon graduation, he launched his professional career writing independent film scores spanning all musical and dramatic styles for a range of films that have premiered and/or won awards at such film festivals as Sundance, Slamdance, HBO's Comedy Arts Festival, Toronto and Cannes.
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