composer - music supervisor - producer - sound designer - recording artist
Recent & Selected Documentary Television:
“East Meets West” & “Havana Museum” for “Great Museums” on PBS 2008
“Jesus: The Man Behind the Myth” [1-hour special] (Discovery Channel) 2008
“Dinosaurs: Return to Life?” [1-hour special] (Discovery Channel) 2008
“Super Comet: After the impact” [2-hour special] (Discovery Channel) 2007
“America at the Crossroads” [8-part series] Series theme & supervisor (PBS/CPB) 2007 (Emmy® award winner)
“2057” [3-hour special] score (Discovery Channel) 2007
“Andiamo” [PBS ‘pledge special’] music producer, co-arranger & supervision (IDTV/Denon/PBS) 2007
“Prophets of Science Fiction” score (Discovery) 2006
“The Great Fever” score (American Experience/PBS) 2006
“Red Velvet” score (ARTE/National Geographic International) 2006
“Slavery and the Making of America” score & supervision 4-hour series (PBS) 2005 #
“Violent Hawaii” score & sound design NATURE (PBS) 2005 * (Emmy® nominated music)
"Hitler's Lost Book” score (History Channel) 2005
“Judy Garland: By Myself” score 2-hour special (American Masters/PBS) (score) 2004 #
“Sea Gypsies of the Forbidden Islands” (National Geographic Explorer) 2004
“Surviving West Point” 13-part series (National Geographic Channel Series) 2002 #
“NY Firefighters and the Brotherhood of 9.11” (Discovery Channel) 2002
“Ulysses S. Grant” 4-hour series (American Experience PBS) 2001
“Vietnam: The Unseen War” (National Geographic/PBS) 2000
“Air Force One' (National Geographic Special/PBS) 2000 #
Selected Feature Films:
“The Disappearing Act” score & supervision 2009
“Veronika Decides to Die” supervision (starring Sarah Michelle Gellar) 2009
“Down the Rabbit Hole” (Director’s cut of “Bleep”) additional music 2006
“What the Bleep Do We Know?” additional music (starring Marlee Matlin & Elaine Hendrix)# 2004
“Chasing Destiny” score [starring Lauren Graham & Casper Van Diem] 2000
“One Hell of a Guy” score (Flash Point) [starring Rob Lowe & Michael York] 1999
“Perfect Moment” score & supervision (dir. Nicholas Hondrogen) [starring Vincent Gallo] # 1997 (soundtrack includes music by: Elton John, Philip Glass, Yo Yo Ma & Sinead O'Connor)
Recent Dramatic/Family Television:
“Napoleonic” supervision (Independent TV film) 2009
“Hit To Right” score & supervision (Independent TV film) (2008)
“As the World Turns” music and licensed cues (CBS Productions/Proctor & Gamble) 2002 - 2007
“Yu-Gi-Oh” Fox series songs (4 Kids) 2001
“Stolen From the Heart” score & co-supervision (Leonard Hill Films /CBS) 2000
“Poke’ Mon” WB series songs & supervision (4 Kids Productions) 1999-2000
“The Foundation of the World” (HBO) 1997 #
“Out of the Box” (scoring, development & supervision) (Disney Channel) 1997 #
"How Do You Spell G-D" (HBO for Kids) 1997 * (Emmy®-award winner)
Selected Themes & Network Television Packages:
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” (Harpo/King World - syndicated) additional music 2007 - 2008
“Inside Edition” (King World - syndicated) additional music 2006 - 2008
“Good Morning America” theme package (ABC News) # 1997 - 2008
“NATURE/WNET - series” 1993 - 2001 (PBS)
“NOVA” 1999 - 2008 (PBS)
“Innovation” 1998-2002 (PBS) #
“Friday Night Baseball” (UPN 38/Boston) # * (Emmy®-nominated music)
“WNET.Channel Thirteen” National IDs and legal IDs (PBS) #
“HD Net” & “Commcast” ID logos
“Hallmark Entertainment Networks” (Hallmark) #
“WBZ News/CBS Boston” (CBS News)* (Emmy®-nominated music)
“WCBS/New York” (CBS News) additional themes & promos
“Martha Stewart/Daytime” (NBC Daytime)
Selected Short Films:
“After I’m Dead” score [dir. David Broyles] 2008
“The Visitor” score, sound design & music supervision [dir. Ian Ross] 2007
“In Harm’s Way” score [dir. Ian Ross] 2006
“Alaska” score & supervision [dir. Anetta Marion] AFI 2006 #
“The Hunter” score [dir. Chris Messineo] 2005
"Happy Trails" score [dir. Michael Goldburg] 2005
"Yours Always, Sam" score [dir. Dave Coleman] 2005
"The Aggie" music [dir. Chris Messineo] [Independent] 2004
“Ode to Elaina” music (dir. Mitch Goldman) 2004 #
“Trouble in Paradise” score & supervision (Independent) 2003
“Born Loser” score (Dir. by Stan Mendoza) (Independent) 2001 #
Recent & Selected Advertising:
Apple Computer, Coca-Cola, Chevy, IBM, Panasonic, Sony, BMW, Mercedes, Rite Aid, Pepsi, Diet Coke, HBO, PBS, Hallmark, Traveler’s Insurance, AT & T, Sprint, MCI, Goodyear, Canon, GM, Breyer’s Ice Cream, Dannon, McDonald’s, Disney, Ford, American Airlines, Volkswagen, Chevy, Nike, (thousands of others)
Solo Recordings (non-classical):
“The Other Coast” (Spout/MWM 2007) ambient/cool age
“Jazzworks (volume 1)” (Spout/MWM 2006) compilation of jazz material
"My Secret Heart" [EMI 2005] solo piano
“Like Rain Through My Hands” [Alchemy 2004] ambient
“Nightscenes (re-release) [Alchemy 2004] ambient
“Mysterious Ways” [Koch 2001] jazz
“The Border of Dusk” [Koch 2000] ambient/experiemental/jazz
"North From Riverside" [Helicon 1999] jazz
“The Softest Touch” [EverSound 1999] solo piano
Solo Recordings (classical):
“The Shadows of October” [Arabesque 1999] collection of chamber music: string quartets 1 & 2, Trampoline Harmonics, The Shadows of October, The Circle of a Swallow
“Afraid of Thunder” [Helicon 1996] collection of chamber music: Noxontown adagio, A Light In The Cathedral, Polar Bears in Central Park, Afraid of Thunder, Montana, American Primitive, The Haunting of Blue Shadow, America is Flat, The Love of Opposites
Selected Recordings as Producer:
Kristin Hoffman “The Waking Dreaming” (2009)
“Seasons of Light” various artists (MWM/SPOUT/IODA 2007) (Paul Buchanan, Toni Childs,
Alannah Myles, Kristen Hoffman, Julian Velard & others....) (SPOUT 2008)
Jim Steed “Fall” [EP] (2007)
Andiamo “Love, From Italy” (Denon 2007)
Jim Steed “Til I Found You” (JSM/MWM 2000)
“Reel Life: the secret music of film composers” [Arabesque 2000) †
“Songs Without Words” various artists [Windham Hill/BMG1997] # (Solo piano performances by: Stephen Sondheim, Brian Wilson, David Foster, Michael Kamen, Diane Warren, Carole King & others)
“Hero’s Dream” on “Picture This” Jim Brickman [Windham Hill/BMG1997] †
† = Grammy Nominated
* = Emmy winner/nominated
# = Production won awards
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