Alf Heiberg Clausen is an American film and television composer. He is best known for his work scoring many episodes of The Simpsons, for which he was the sole composer between 1990 and 2017. Clausen has scored or orchestrated music for more than 30 films and television shows, including Moonlighting, The Naked Gun, ALF and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Clausen received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music in 1996.
Colin Welford is an English composer for stage and screen, conductor, orchestrator and music director based in the United States.
Rick Rhodes was an American musician and television composer. His music for TV shows including Santa Barbara, Another World and Guiding Light won a total of five Emmy Award. In 2005, he died of brain cancer at the age of 54.
Barbara Miller-Gidaly, sometimes credited with her maiden name, Barbara Miller, is an American music supervisor and director. She was married to attorney and theatrical producer Walter Gidaly, until his death from a heart attack at age 75, on February 17, 2003.
Andrew J. "A.J." Gundell is an American musician and music director. He has won 13 Emmy awards; his favorites being three in the "Outstanding Original Song" category.
John Henry Kreitler, also credited as John Henry, is an Emmy-winning American composer of contemporary classical, film, television and theatre music. He is a songwriter, producer and publisher, and co-founder of contemporary chamber music ensemble Virtuosos de Cámara and founder and Creative Director of Clear Choice Entertainment, LLC.
Wes Boatman is an American television composer.
Michael Licari is an American television composer and songwriter. He has worked as a composer on the television series, "Deliver Me", documentary "Triple the Triplets" (2005). He has also worked as a song writer and performer on the 2007 film Charlie Bartlett, and on the 1996 film The Long Kiss Goodnight, as an arranger. He has also worked on award-winning drama series, "The Guiding Light", "Another World","As The World Turns", "Sunset Beach", and "Santa Barbara".
Richard Hazard was an American television composer, orchestrator, conductor and songwriter. He was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and died in Los Angeles, California, of cancer. He was married to Jeanne Taylor from 1950 until his death, and had two children.
Paul F. Antonelli is an American composer, musician, music director, and music supervisor. He began his career in the entertainment world as a keyboardist and founding member of the 1980s synthpop band, Animotion, which had evolved out of his previous band, Red Zone. Animotion would experience mainstream success with their hit single, "Obsession", written by Holly Knight and Michael Des Barres -for which a music video was filmed that prominently featured Antonelli in several scenes.
Robbie Kondor is an American composer, session musician, and arranger. He has worked as a composer on The Significant Other, Ball In The House, Sally Jessy Raphael, Happiness (1998), The Suburbans (1999), Forever Fabulous (1999), Drawing Angel (2001), Series 7: The Contenders (2001), Home Delivery (2004) and Equality U (2008). He has worked as a producer for The Sum of All Fears (2002), and as an arranger on Beaches (1988), and the 32nd Annual Grammy Awards (1990).
Gary Kuo is an American composer and violinist. He has worked as a composer on Another Night (2003), As the World Turns and All My Children. He played the violin for the film The Glass Shield in 1994, and instructed on the violin for Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance that same year.
Brian D. Siewert, alternatively credited with or without his middle initial, is an American public speaker, multiple Emmy-Award winning concert and television composer, producer, songwriter, musician, arranger and visual artist. He has worked on The Guiding Light (1996–2009) as Principal Composer/Songwriter, As the World Turns (1995-2010) as Principal Composer/Songwriter and Supervising Music Producer, General Hospital - ABC, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003), Another World (1995-1999),The Tyra Banks Show Syndicated, The Dr. Oz Show Syndicated, Sunset Beach (1997-1998), Extra, Access Hollywood, Street Smarts, elimiDATE, Celebrity Justice, The Sharon Osbourne Show, and The Real Gilligan's Island. Siewert is the recipient of both ASCAP and BMI awards for his work in Film/TV Music.
Lee Elwood Holdridge is a Haitian-born American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. A 18-time Emmy Award nominee, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Daytime Emmy Awards, two News & Documentary Emmy Awards, and one Sports Emmy Award. He has also been nominated for two Grammy Awards.
Jamie Howarth is an American television and film composer and musical director. Howarth also restores damaged soundtracks from old films. He owns a company for sound restoration, called Plangent Processes. One of its more notable restorations is the soundtrack for the 1958 production of South Pacific, starring Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi. The restored version of the track was released in 2006.
Ron Cohen is an American television composer and soundtrack writer. He graduated from the California State University, in Northridge.
Larry Hochman is an American orchestrator and composer. He has won four Emmy Awards for his original music on the TV series Wonder Pets! and a Tony Award for his orchestrations for The Book of Mormon.
Douglas Besterman is an American orchestrator, musical arranger and music producer. He is the recipient of three Tony Awards out of six total nominations and two Drama Desk Awards out of six total nominations, and was a 2009 Grammy Award nominee.
Larry Blank is a composer, arranger, orchestrator and conductor who has worked in theatre, films, television and concerts. He has been nominated for a Tony Award three times, for his orchestrations of Catch Me If You Can, White Christmas, and The Drowsy Chaperone. In 2012, his orchestrations were performed in Singin' in the Rain at the Palace Theatre in London. He has been nominated 6 times for the Drama Desk Award (White Christmas, The Drowsy Chaperone, Catch Me If You Can, A Christmas Story, Honeymoon in Vegas and Fiddler on the Roof for Orchestrations.
