News and Updates

I have recently finished the first round of sessions for God of War 3 at Skywalker Ranch. It was a hectic week, having been in London for a wedding, I arrived in San Francisco Sunday night and then conducted a triple session on Monday. That did nothing for the cold that was coming on. I ended up having to get a lift back to LA as my head was too stuffed up to fly. I think I can now say what one of the movies…
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A lot of people said they needed me in August, I did not believe them, turns out they really did need me. As well as ongoing work on God of War 3 for Sony, I am working on Ratchet and Clank for Boris Salchow and several arrangements for producer Salaam Remi to be featured in some big movies, can't mention titles yet, throw in a conducting gig or 2 and I guess I am busy. The AFM has featured me in another article, this one…
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The International Musician, the magazine of the American Federation of Musicians, has recently published a story about me. You can find it here.
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I am pleased to announce that I have just been commissioned by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music to write a big band work. The piece will be premiered next year at the ISCM World Music days which are being held in Australia for the first time. I used to submit pieces every year and never once would they play one and now they are going to pay me to write a new piece, I guess some things just take time. I recently completed work on…
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I survived my trip to Australia, the bands were all great and we had a huge crowd at the Melbourne release party. Now I am getting ready for the Bakersfield Jazz Festival and our launch party at Typhoon and catching up on all the work I was supposed to do while I was partying in Oz! Hard at work on Lost Planet 2 right now and then once that is done I am onto God of War 3 for a few months. While in Oz…
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I am about to jump on the plane back to Australia! It is going to be a full on trip. The gigs are listed below but I am also doing lectures and taking bands at QLD con, VCA, AFTRAS, Sydney and Melbourne Army and Sydney Con. I am also working with several school bands in Melbourne who will then open the show for us. Blackburn will premiere a new piece "Sarahbande". As soon as I get back it is right back to work orchestrating the…
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March already. Was thinking it may have been a slow year but not so far. I just did some arrangements for Cee-lo Green and producer Salaam Remi. I thought Cee-lo sounded a bit like the guy from Gnarls Barkley, I forgot where I was for a minute, turns out he is the guy from Gnarls Barkley! I had some fun conducting an 87 piece orchestra last week at Fox for Stephen Trask's score to Cirque du Freak for Universal. I also did some orchestrations for…
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It is almost the end of the year and I still have not finished the record, that is pretty bad. I have a good reason though, people keep paying me lots of money to do other things! As usual it has been an eclectic mix of projects. Pushing Daisies is in it's 2nd season. As well as orchestrating and conducting you can sometimes hear some jazz on the show and I either wrote it or arranged it. I also had some fun doing some barbershop…
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