Georg Brandl Egloff is an American producer and composer of music for film, television, radio, and commercials. He has composed music for ''
Shameless'', ''
The Goldbergs'', ''
The West Wing
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'', and ''
A&E Biography
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'', and is credited with writing the station ID music for the
FX channel and the
Hallmark Channel
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. He wrote the main theme music for ''
This I Believe
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'' series on ''
All Things Considered
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'' and ''
Morning Edition
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'', and composes and produces music for ''
Milk Street Radio
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'' and ''
America's Test Kitchen'' (PBS and NPR).
Early life
Georg Brandl Egloff was born in
Monterey, California
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to David and Susan Egloff. He grew up in Oberlin, Ohio. While still in high school, he studied composition, electronic music, and jazz piano at the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is a private music conservatory in Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1865 and is the second oldest conservatory and oldest continually operating conservatory in the United States. It is one of ...
. He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston and received a bachelor's degree in performance and composition in 1986.
Music career
Egloff moved to
New York City
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in 1986, where he performed as a jazz pianist in
Manhattan
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. He served as the Tuesday night pianist at the famous
Village Gate
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club on
Bleecker Street. During that period, he performed at The
Village Vanguard
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, the Blue Note, Chicago Blues, Zanzibar, the
Knitting Factory
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The Knitting Factory gave its audience poetry readings, perform ...
, and Sweet Basil. He worked with many jazz and blues artists including
Ruth Brown
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and
Linda Hopkins
Linda Hopkins (December 14, 1924 – April 10, 2017) was a Tony-winning American actress and blues and gospel singer. She recorded classic, traditional, and urban blues, and performed R&B and soul, jazz, and show tunes.
Biography
Born Me ...
.
In the 1990s, Egloff began working in rock and pop music venues with singers including
Jeff Buckley
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,
Joan Osborne
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,
Ronnie Spector
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Ronnie formed the ...
and
Johnny Thunders
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. He recorded as a session keyboardist on many projects, including work for producers
Phil Ramone
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and
Frank Filipetti
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, and recorded a version of "
My Way
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" for the
Frank Sinatra
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''Duets'' series.
He scored his first short film, ''The Anniversary'', directed by Noah Kline in 1991.
Film and television music
In 1994, Egloff was hired to write music for the ''A&E Biography'' episode on
Hillary Clinton
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, which led to work on 22 more episodes for the popular series. Soon he was writing music for other television documentaries, independent and short films, national commercials, and live events. He continues composing music for television, film, radio, commercials, podcasts, and other media.
He has written for ''
ER'', ''
The West Wing
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'', ''
Pan Am
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'', ''
Third Watch
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'', ''
Shameless,'' and various programs airing on
HBO
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,
Showtime
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Film
* ''Showtime'' (film), a 2002 American action/comedy film
* ''Showtime'' (video), a 1995 live concert video by Blur
Television Networks and channels
* Showtime Networks, a division of Paramount Global w ...
, and
Lifetime Television
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. His film work includes ''
The Company Men
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It premiered at the 26th Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2010 and had a on ...
'', ''The Big Time'', ''
The Babymakers
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'', and ''
The Terminal
''The Terminal'' is a 2004 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stanley Tucci. The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy ...
''.
In 2004, Egloff appeared in an episode of ''
The West Wing
''The West Wing'' is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to May 14, 2006. The series is set primarily in the West Wing of the White Hous ...
'' playing a Hammond organ with
James Taylor
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.
Filmography
References
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American male composers
21st-century American composers
Living people
1963 births
21st-century American male musicians