David Long

Musical Artist

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Who is David Long?

David Long is a musician, composer and producer. He has worked on all of Peter Jackson’s films of the last decade.

In 2009 he composed additional score for Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. For the The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey he wrote ‘Misty Mountain’, a song for the dwarves that also features as the major theme in the score and was used as the basis for the credits song by Neil Finn. He wrote music and created musical sound design for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong.

In 2013 composed the score for Beyond the Edge, Gardening With Soul that premiered in the Wellington Film Festival. In 2012 three films were released that he scored: Robert Sarkies’s Two Little Boys, Alyx Duncan’s The Red House and Dan Salmon’s Pictures of Susan. In 2011 he scored Simon Pattison’s film Rest for the Wicked and in 2010 wrote the score for Stephen Sinclair’s Russian Snark.

Long has composed for many television dramas and documentaries. Between 2009 and 2011 he created the music for the Weta Workshop children’s series The WotWots which has screened in over 100 countries. In 2009-10 he scored two series of Paradise Café, a NZ/UK co-production.

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Nationality
  • New Zealand
Profession
Employment
  • Tundra Semiconductor

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on July 23, 2013

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