Paul S. Henning

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Henning enjoys a versatile music career in both film and live performance. He has worked on the score orchestrations for over 50 feature films, including Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), The BFG (2016), Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) and Chocolat (2000). In addition to his film writing, Paul also works on orchestral arrangements that have received performances by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and London Symphony. He has helped create concert suites from the film scores, Spider-Man (2002), The Passion of the Christ (2004), Peter Pan (2003), as well as multiple works from the catalogs of the Golden Age film composers Dimitri Tiomkin and Elmer Bernstein. Paul has also completed band arrangements for the Television Shows "American Idol," "The Singing Bee," and "Sunday's Best." An accomplished pianist and violinist, Paul has performed with the Hollywood Studio Symphony on the soundtracks to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Moana (2016), Storks (2016), Furious 7 (2015), Frozen (2013), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), The Maze Runner (2014), Monsters University (2013) and Alice in Wonderland (2010), among many others. He has also played violin for Barbra Streisand, Michael Bublé, Neil Young, Aretha Franklin, Andrea Bocelli and 'Josh Groban'. Paul has served as Concertmaster for the Golden State Pops Orchestra since 2004. Paul grew up on his family's 125-year old wheat farm near Pullman, Washington. He studied music at the University of Southern California and Washington State University.