Composer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Henning enjoys a versatile music career in both film and live performance. Paul has composed the original music for the feature documentaries Foreman, Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of our Lives, and The Town That Was. He has worked on the score orchestrations for over 50 feature films, including Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The BFG, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and Chocolat. 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, The Passion of the Christ, and Peter Pan, 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 Moana, Storks, Furious 7, Frozen, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Maze Runner, Monsters University and  Alice in Wonderland,, 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.

 

Despite all his years of experience working in the Hollywood Studios and on the concert stage, Paul's most exciting endeavor to date remains his solo piano & orchestra album, Breaking Through.