1955年11月18日，出生在美国纽约市，作曲家，电影配乐师。早年相继毕业于康涅狄格州的斯坦福德国王学院和哈佛学院。1999年和美国影像艺术家Christine Sciulli相爱结婚。作为电影配乐师，Burwell与Coen brothers（科恩兄弟）有着长期的合作关系， 几乎每部由Coen brothers指导的电影都能聆听到burwell的音乐，除此之外，他也很喜欢与非主流导演合作，曾为Spike Jonze（斯派克琼兹）的电影配乐。悉数他的最有名的非科恩兄弟电影配乐作品有：Conspiracy Theory--阴谋论（1997年），Hamlet--哈姆雷特 （2000 年），The Spanish Prisoner--西班牙囚徒（1997年），Before the Devil Knows You're Dead--魔鬼知道你死之前（2007年）。2008年他创作了"Bella's Lullaby"（贝拉的摇篮曲 ）即热映的影片“Twilight”（暮光之城）当中，男主人公Edward对Bella表达深深爱意的钢琴曲。除配乐以外，Burwell曾一度与Stanton Miranda（斯坦顿.米兰达）组成一个名为厚鸽的乐队。 共发行了两张唱片：Too Crazy Cowboys 和 Miranda Dali （疯狂的牛仔和米兰达大理）。米兰达的特色也因为在burwell为Psycho III的配乐中，充分展现出来。精选电影专辑 1984: Blood Simple 1984年： 血液简单 1986: Psycho III 1986年： 心理三 1987: Raising Arizona 1987年： 提高亚利桑那 1990: Miller's Crossing 1990年： 米勒的跨越 1991: Barton Fink 1991年： 巴顿芬克 1992: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1992年： 捉鬼者巴菲 1993: This Boy's Life 1993年： 这个男孩的生命 1993: Kalifornia 1993年： Kalifornia 1993: And the Band Played On 1993年： 与乐队演奏论 1994: The Hudsucker Proxy 1994年： Hudsucker代理 1995: Rob Roy 1995年： 罗布罗伊 1995: A Goofy Movie 1995年：一个高飞电影 1995: Fear 1995年： 恐惧 1996: Fargo 1996年： 法戈 1997: Conspiracy Theory 1997年： 阴谋论 1997: The Spanish Prisoner 1997年：西班牙囚犯 1997: The Jackal 1997年： 豺狼 1998: Velvet Goldmine 1998年： 天鹅绒金矿 1998: The Big Lebowski 1998年： 大Lebowski 1998: Gods and Monsters 1998年： 众神与野兽 1999: Mystery, Alaska 1999年： 神秘，阿拉斯加 1999: Three Kings 1999年： 三王 1999: Being John Malkovich 1999年： 作为约翰马尔科维奇 2000: Before Night Falls 2000年： 夜幕降临前 2000: Hamlet 2000年： 哈姆雷特 2002: The Man Who Wasn't There 2002年： 该名男子不存在 2002: Adaptation 2002年： 适应 2003: Intolerable Cruelty 2003年： 不能容忍虐待 2004: The Ladykillers 2004年： Ladykillers 2004: Kinsey 2004年： 金赛 2004: The Alamo 2004年： 在阿拉莫 2006: The Hoax 2006年： 虚报 2007: No Country for Old Men 2007年： 人老无故乡 2007: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007年： 在魔鬼知道你死 2008: In Bruges 2008年： 在布鲁日 2008: Burn After Reading 2008年： 烧伤后读 2008: Twilight 2008年： 黎明Probably one of a very few soundtrack composers to idolize Iggy Pop, Carter Burwell is best known for his work with the Coen Brothers, having scored every one of their films through the year 2009. By turns haunting and dark or quirky and experimental, Burwell's eclectic music has graced films in a wide variety of genres, and he's used the occasional big-studio project to finance his work on a number of groundbreaking independent films. Born November 18, 1955, in New York, Burwell took piano lessons as a child and learned to play blues guitar as a teenager. He studied architecture and fine arts at Harvard, but wasn't considering music as a career; upon graduating, he first worked in a biology lab, then as an animator, while playing in punk bands by night for fun. A mutual friend referred him to the Coen Brothers, who were seeking a composer for their debut 1984 feature, Blood Simple. They all hit it off, and Burwell was employed for the Coens' next project, the kidnapping caper Raising Arizona (1987); Burwell blended samples with a variety of thematic source materials. The Coens' 1990 gangster film, Miller's Crossing, was Burwell's first fully orchestrated work, and he attracted more attention for 1991's groundbreaking Barton Fink; he composed only 20 bars of music, which were then treated with various sound effects and reshaped throughout the film by sound designer Skip Lievsay.Burwell's workload increased steadily as the '90s progressed, and he began taking on more mainstream film projects: Doc Hollywood (1991), Wayne's World 2 (1993), and Airheads (1994), among others. He won wide acclaim for his work on 1995's Rob Roy, which kicked off the most prolific period of his career -- over 35 films in the next five years. Among the highlights were the thriller Conspiracy Theory (1997), The Jackal (1997), Gods and Monsters (1998), the fictionalized glam rock chronicle Velvet Goldmine (1998), the bizarre Being John Malkovich (1999), and the Gulf War epic Three Kings (1999). In addition to his film-scoring activities, Burwell has also played accordion and synthesizer with eclectic new age artists like Gabrielle Roth and David Hykes' Harmonic Choir.