Adam Gubman

Adam Gubman (born April 7, 1979) is an American songwriter, arranger, and composer.

Gubman's work varies from music from video games to pop and to television program's soundtrack, and it has been featured on dozens of television shows and commercials (including ''America's Got Talent'', G4techTV, MTV, ''The Real Housewives of Miami'', "Aurora" and "Alguien Te Mira" by Univision , '' Corazòn Valiente'', multiple national Skechers campaigns). Gubman has composed music for more than 550 video games, many for prominent interactive software development companies (including Ubisoft, Nexon, Sony Online Interactive, Activision, Square Enix, Konami, Electronic Arts, GSN, Storm8, Gree, Playdom, PlayFirst, and Disney Online Interactive).
Gubman has released many albums, but only two under his artist name 'Adam Gubman': "Sunday Rain" (1994) and "Dark Matter" (2014), which is a collection of 12 horror orchestral cues.

Biography

Adam Gubman was born at Anaheim, California and raised in Southern California where he lives in 2016, Gubman spent a part of his adolescence in Plymouth, Minnesota. His grandfather introduced him to "Deluxe Music Construction Set" on the Amiga computer in 1984, and he experimented with composing. Gubman started to play piano and to compose music at the age of seven, and played in bands through high school. He joined marching bands and a show choir. He spent a lot of time playing videogames as well. In 1997, Gubman begun attending the California State University at Long Beach. He took a break until 2003, when he resumed his studies, and completed a degree in Musical composition and Theory in 2006.

Career

Gubman released in 1994 the album ''Sunday Rain'' under an independent record label. The album contained contributions from songwriter/producer Andy Dodd and singer Kevin Odekirk. Right after graduating from high school in 1997, Gubman worked for producer C. J. Vanston in Hollywood, and assisted on projects with Michael Bolton, Carole King, and the Christopher Guest's film " Best in Show".

Gubman was one of four producers on " This Is Me", by Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, from ''The Greatest Showman''. The song was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe in 2017.

In January 2000, Gubman created a publishing-company, "Gubman Music International", of which he remains the director in 2015. After a short time as a pop-producer in the early 2000s, Gubman returned to University. During this period, he produced music for several indie artists, worked on a few indie movies' scores, taught piano, and wrote his first musical, entitled "The Recital".

In 2006, after graduating from University, Gubman co-composed, along with composer Jeff Kurtenacker, the soundtrack for the videogame " Pirates of the Burning Sea", a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Flying Lab Software and published by Sony Online Entertainment. Gubman then worked as a contract composer for "SomaTone Interactive Inc." and "Non-Stop Music". Since then, his work has been featured on hundreds of video games (of which many are published by well-known software houses), TV commercials, TV news packages, etc. Gubman's notable collaborations include singer Traci Hines, violinist Taylor Davis, composer Austin Wintory and the "". As a contract composer, Gubman has written for NBC television broadcasts of the 2012 Winter Olympics, the 2012 Presidential Election and the 2011 Royal Wedding.

In 2013, under the direction of Warner/Chappell Music, Gubman composed a replacement for NBC's ''Today'' theme, which has been previously written by John Williams.

Currently, Gubman is a partner at Moonwalkaudio, a full service audio pipeline management company. In early 2021, Gubman released the demos for an original animated musical he had written, known as ‘Seeds’.

Awards

References

External links

Adam Gubman – official website
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1979 births
American male composers
Living people
American male songwriters
American television composers
Video game composers
21st-century American composers
ASCAP composers and authors
21st-century American male musicians