George Whitty

George Whitty is a musician/composer/producer/engineer/ teacher currently living near Los Angeles. He won an Emmy award in 2014 for his work as a composer for the TV series "All My Children" and produced three Grammy Award winning CDs (most recently Randy Brecker's "34th and Lex")[1] and was nominated for Emmy Awards for his composing on the long-running TV shows "One Life to Live" and "As the World Turns".[2]

As a musician, he has played and recorded with artists such as Dave Matthews and Carlos Santana ("Supernatural"), Celine Dion ("Falling Into You" and "These are Special Times"), Michael and Randy Brecker (4 years on the road, 7 CDs), Chaka Khan ("The Woman I Am"), Richard Bona (phenom from Cameroon), Chris Minh Doky, Sadao Watanabe, Grover Washington, Jr., Till Brönner ("Midnight") and other well-known artists. His discography includes more than 100 CDs as a producer or musician,[3] and he has hundreds of compositions for film and TV playing on everything from nature documentaries to feature films to TV reality shows and some of TV's longest-running series.

In 2012 he formed the electric jazz trio Third Rail with Tom Brechtlein on drums and Janek Gwizdala on bass. In 2013 the band released the live CD "Ignition: Live Across Europe", composed of tracks recorded on the band's first tour of Europe. In August 2012 he performed at the Hollywood Bowl with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Carlos Santana, Marcus Miller, Dave Holland and Zakir Hussein in the Concert for Peace. In 2014 he appeared on several tracks as an orchestrator, synthesizer player and sound designer on Herbie's CD "The Imagine Project".

In 2018 George arranged 3 Herbie Hancock pieces for the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Herbie playing piano, which played at Disney Hall.

George Whitty was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon and is a 1980 graduate of Marshfield High School.[4]

His brother, playwright Jeff Whitty won a Tony award for "Best Book for a Musical" for 'Avenue Q', and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2019. George Whitty's website and blog can be found here, and he has been teaching via Skype for many years, both jazz improvisation and production in Logic; more information can be found at his website here.

In 2015 he also began teaching jazz piano through ArtistWorks, an online music education website.[5]

References
  1. "Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album". Boston University School of Theology. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  2. "2006 Daytime Emmy Awards Nominees". Academy of Television Arts & Science. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  3. "George Whitty - Discography". Artist Direct. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  4. "Acclaimed Alumni". Marshfield High School. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  5. Grammy®-Winning Jazz Pianist Joins ArtistWorks


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