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Three time Emmy-nominated Composer, Miriam Cutler has an extensive background in scoring for independent film & TV projects, as well as two circuses. Her passion for documentaries has led to a focus in non-fiction award-winning and festival favorites. She wrote the scores for RBG (CNN) and Dark Money (PBS) which both premiered at Sundance 2017 and Love, Gilda (CNN) which premiered at Tribeca 2018. All three films had theatrical releases with RBG being one of the highest earning documentaries ever. RBG was nominated for an Oscar and four 2019 Primetime Emmys (1 for score), winning 1 Emmy. Love, Gilda was nominated for two Primetime Emmys (one for score).

Susan was born in Philadelphia and began taking piano lessons at the age of 4.  Growing up on a steady diet of jazz, pop, r&b, folk, classical and broadway (depending on which family member had control of the record player), she developed a love for a wide variety of music.  She began writing songs in High School and later attended Berklee College of Music where she majored in arranging and composition.  From there she spent a year on the road singing and playing piano in a jazz/pop quartet.  In 1983, she moved to Los Angeles to follow her dream of writing music for film and tv.

Certainly one of the handful of truly phenomenal drummers of the last couple of decades, has an excellent site with good info about CDs he's played on, videos and DVDs, and even transcriptions of solos. Good luck playing them yourself.

Peter's site also includes info on his CD label, Fuzzy Music--a great two-word description of jazz if I've ever heard one--although Chinese Music always ranked up there. Peter is a true artist on the drums and has played with everyone from Steely Dan to Weather Report. He is one of THE major influences on contemporary jazz and is always inspiring.

Bob is a long-time friend out here in LA, and one of the great sax players around today. He's got a great site with some examples of music from his new album, just released this month, that I can recommend without even having heard it yet. He enjoys shrimp.

I've had a great relationship with  Mark for probably more than 15 years now, and it's always a dream come true to work with him. What can you say about a guy who turned New Age music into something any musician can enjoy and respect, plays trumpet like he's singing, and has written some of the most beautiful film scores in recent history? Plus he's actually somewhat amusing.

I can't say enough good things about composer Alf Clausen and his work on The Simpsons, which I've been privileged to be a part of for over a decade. I've actually heard the man create three separate emotions in the course of four bars. He still continues to amaze after over 17,000 takes.

Casey is another long-time friend who I haven't been able to see much since he moved to Boston to teach at Berklee. He is one of the great drum stylists who sounds good no matter what he's playing, and I was lucky to catch him in town to do a couple of tracks on the CD.

Mike and I have known each other almost since the day I moved to LA. He is without doubt one of the world's great guitarists. Ask anybody who's ever heard him--seriously. He is extremely funny. He has never met a fish he didn't like, in or out of the frying pan.