John Du Prez

John Du Prez (born Trevor Jones, 14 December 1946) is a Grammy Award-winning British musician, conductor and composer who has scored over 20 feature films including A Fish Called Wanda, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I-III, and the cult classic UHF. A Trevelyan Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford (Oriental Studies) 1966-70, he spent a year abroad on Chinese language study leave and became Principal Horn of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1976 he worked as a Music Lecturer at London University until 1979, when he entered the film industry composing additional music for Monty Python's Life of Brian. Working frequently with the Pythons and scoring movies for George Harrion's Handmade Films, he also played trumpet on many UK Top 40 hits with the UK Salsa band Modern Romance. The international success of A Fish Called Wanda took him to America, where he scored Weird Al' Yankovic's UHF and the first three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.