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Edward Shearmur (also known as Ed Shearmur; born 28 February 1966) is a British film composer. Born in London, England, at age seven he sang in the boys' choir at Westminster Cathedral. Educated at Eton College, he studied at the Royal College of Music and went on to a scholarship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He worked as orchestration and conducting assistant to Michael Kamen on such films as Licence to Kill, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and the acclaimed Don Juan DeMarco before scoring his first full-length feature film The Cement Garden[1] which won the director's prize at the Berlin Film Festival. His first major feature score was that of The Wings of the Dove (1997). He has since scored a diverse range of popular films, including both Charlie's Angels[1] outings, Cruel Intentions, Species II, and K-PAX.[1] In 2023 he composed the soundtrack for the film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's last novel Across the River and into the Trees. In addition to his film work, Shearmur has collaborated as keyboardist and arranger with a number of prominent rock musicians, including Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, Pink Floyd, Marianne Faithfull, Bryan Adams, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Ambient artist David Helpling has cited Shearmur's compositional style as a major influence on his work. Shearmur was married to film producer Allison Shearmur (née Brecker) until her death from lung cancer in January 2018. They have two children.[2]
Edward Shearmur
Composer
for Composer in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Horrors of High School (2013)
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After 8th grade comes the true horrors of high school, according to Greg's brother, Roderick. Finally overcoming the bearing challenges that was middle school, Greg now has to suffer through 4 years of high school. Finally getting the girl of his dreams, Holly Hills, and hanging out with his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, things seemed to be turning out great with Greg. Until something out of the blue happens to him: his mother is now a teacher at his high school! Realizing that she become an embarrassment to him, Greg does the only thing he can do: by trying to get his mom from teaching at his school so she won't have to embarrass him. But, that only makes things worse from here. Greg causes a lot of trouble that gets him suspended from school for a week, his mom has nearly been fired because of a fire hazardous stunt that Greg almost causes, and Holly and Rowley are now really disappointed in Greg because of his actions and not taking full responsibility for those actions. It's not until an old friend from middle school helps Greg confront his own actions and learn the true responsibility of what it's like as an actual teenager in high school.
