Biography
Terry Plumeri was an American composer, conductor and musician. Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, he studied at the Manhattan School of Music and later with Antal Doráti while a bassist with the National Symphony Orchestra. He performed with jazz artists including Cannonball Adderley, Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones, and appeared at venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival.
Plumeri composed scores for more than fifty feature films. He worked as a house composer for Roger Corman’s New Concorde Pictures in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His credits include Black Eagle (1988), Scarecrows (1988), Sometimes They Come Back (1991), One False Move (1992) and Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994). His score for One False Move, co-composed with Pete Haycock and Derek Holt, received a nomination for Best Original Score at the Independent Spirit Awards.
