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Michael Seifert is an American multi-platinum award-winning music composer, record producer, arranger and audio engineer based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Seifert's credits include work for Nicholas Megalis, Dominick Farinacci, Arooj Aftab, Weedie Braimah, Bokanté, Paul Simon, Nancy Zeltsman, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, Fountains of Wayne, Lifehouse (band), Colbie Caillat, Gerald Levert, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Too Short, 8 Ball & MJG, UGK, Chuck Mosley, Guided by Voices, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Kate Voegele, Mr. Gnome, Sweet Apple, Cobra Verde (band), Sad Planets, Alex Bevan, Snarky Puppy, and Kira Willey among others.
Seifert has scored independent films and major motion pictures, including composing, arranging, recording, and production work on Bram Stoker's Dracula (Special Edition), The Outsiders : The Complete Novel, Heart of Darkness, and The Godfather trilogy FFC restoration special edition for Francis Ford Coppola and the award-winning documentary, Romeo is Bleeding. He has composed original music and score for TV shows, including the Netflix original series Buddy Thunderstruck and Care Bears: Unlock the Magic (Boomerang Network/Cartoon Network). He has also composed, recorded, and produced music for Apple Music, Chipotle, Spotify, Pepsi, PlayStation, Xbox, Fox TV, CBS, MTV, American Greetings, Sports Illustrated, Reebok, MGM Casinos and many others.
A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Seifert often performs on both sides of the glass when working on a project.
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano. He has written a number of operas, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; Letters, Riddles and Writs; Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs; Facing Goya; Man and Boy: Dada; Love Counts; and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond. He has written six concerti, five string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist. Nyman prefers to write opera over other forms of music.
John Barry Prendergast was an English composer and conductor of film music. Born in York, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father. During his national service with the British Army in Cyprus, Barry began performing as a musician after learning to play the trumpet. Upon completing his national service, he formed a band in 1957, the John Barry Seven. He later developed an interest in composing and arranging music, making his début for television in 1958. He came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No, who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. Noel Rogers, the head of music at United Artists, approached Barry. This started a successful association between Barry and the Bond series that lasted for 25 years.
Michael Arnold Kamen was an American composer, orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, record producer and musician.
Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross is an English musician, composer, record producer, and audio engineer. He is best known for his work with American musician Trent Reznor, with whom he first worked on the musical project Tapeworm in 2002. He began working with Reznor's band Nine Inch Nails in 2005 as a programmer and producer, then joined as a musician and became the only official member of the band other than Reznor in 2016.
Robert David Grusin is an American composer, arranger, producer, jazz pianist, and band leader. He has composed many scores for feature films and television and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy Award and 10 Grammy Awards. Grusin was also a frequent collaborator with director Sydney Pollack, scoring many of his films like Three Days of the Condor (1975), Absence of Malice (1981), Tootsie (1982), The Firm (1993), and Random Hearts (1999). In 1978, Grusin founded GRP Records with Larry Rosen, and was an early pioneer of digital recording.
Walter Anthony Murphy Jr. is an American composer, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for the instrumental "A Fifth of Beethoven", a disco adaptation of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony which topped the charts in 1976 and was featured on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1977. Further classical-disco fusions followed, such as "Flight '76", "Toccata and Funk in 'D' Minor" "Bolero", and "Mostly Mozart", but were not as successful.
John Du Prez is a British musician, conductor and composer. He was a member of the 1980s salsa-driven pop band Modern Romance and has since written several film scores including Oxford Blues (1984), Once Bitten, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), and the final Carry On film, Carry On Columbus (1992). He contributed to The Wild (2006) soundtrack.
Joey Newman is an American film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor working in the fields of film and television.
Ralph Joseph P. Burns was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
Michael Wade Kulas is a Canadian singer, songwriter and music producer who was a member of the English rock band James between 1997 and 2001.
Stephen J. Lawrence was an American composer, who lived and worked in New York City. He was also known as Stephen Lawrence, but used his middle initial to differentiate him from the singer Steve Lawrence.
John Altman is an English film composer, music arranger, orchestrator and conductor.
Michael Price is an English composer and pianist. Prior to establishing himself as a composer, he held a number of roles within the TV & film music field such as producer, arranger and music editor, much of which whilst working alongside acclaimed film score composer Michael Kamen.
Nicholas Pike is an English film and television music composer.
Brian Keane is an American composer, music producer, and guitarist. Keane has been described as "a musician's musician, a composer's composer, and one of the most talented producers of a generation" by Billboard magazine.
Michael J McEvoy is an American screen composer, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist.
Patric Caird is a Canadian film and television composer.
John Would is a Grammy award-winning American musician, songwriter, record producer, audio engineer, and mixer, who was born in Vallejo, California. He has recorded and performed extensively as a multi-instrumentalist and works mainly out of his own studio, Stanley Recordings, in Los Angeles, California.
Chris Ketley is a British, London-based multi-instrumentalist, musical director, arranger, composer and producer.
Watchmen (Music from the HBO Series) is the original score for the HBO superhero drama limited series Watchmen, composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The score was released in three volumes on vinyl and digital services over the course of the series' broadcast in 2019, with Volume 1 on November 6, Volume 2 on November 27, and Volume 3 on December 18.