Alan Menken

Known for SoundBorn 1949-07-22 (age 76)New Rochelle, New York, USA

Alan Irwin Menken (born July 12, 1949) is an American composer, pianist, music director, and record producer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Menken's music for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) has each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Newsies (1992), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Home on the Range (2004), Enchanted (2007), Tangled (2010), and Disenchanted (2022), among others. His accolades include winning eight Academy Awards — becoming the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman (who has 9 Oscars), a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Menken is one of nineteen people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony ("an EGOT").Read more

Movies & web series

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream

The Disney Family Singalong

Hollywood in Vienna 2022: A Celebration of Disney Classics - Featuring Alan Menken

Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice

Newsies

Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall

Listen to Her Heart: The Life and Music of Laurie Beechman

Tangled: The Musical

Tangled

Beauty and the Beast

Aladdin

Galavant

Hercules

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story

Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Aladdin

Lincoln

The Little Mermaid

Beauty and the Beast

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration

Howard

Tangled: Before Ever After

The Little Mermaid Live!

The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World

Enchanted

Disenchanted

Pocahontas

Little Shop of Horrors

Spellbound

Newsies

The Little Mermaid

A Christmas Carol

Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue

Home on the Range

Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin

Mirror Mirror

Sausage Party

Noel

Life with Mikey

Aladdin on Ice

The Shaggy Dog

Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook

An Evening with Alan Menken

Aria for a Cow