A native of Oceanside, California, who hails from a family of
filmmakers, William T. Stromberg balances his career as a composer of
strikingly vivid film scores with that of a busy conductor in Marco
Polo's Classic Film Score Series. Besides conducting his own scores -
including his recent music for the thriller,
Other Voices (2000), the monster
film,
Bugs (2003), and the
documentary,
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995)
- Stromberg serves as a conductor for other film composers. He is
especially noted for his passion in reconstructing and conducting film
scores from Hollywood's Golden Age, including several works recorded
for RCA with the Brandenburg Philharmonic. For Marco Polo, he has
conducted albums of music devoted to
Max Steiner,
Erich Wolfgang Korngold,
Alfred Newman,
Philip Sainton,
Adolph Deutsch,
Hans J. Salter,
Victor Young and
Malcolm Arnold. He has also
conducted several much-praised albums devoted to concert works by
American composers, including two albums of music by
Ferde Grofé Sr..