|  Steve
Bauman: I've been lucky enough to wear three of
those hats - songwriter, composer and publisher.
I work mostly in film and TV, and do quite a
bit of source; I've written in styles from rock
and rap to mariachi and marching band.
I do play live occasionally, recently I've been
holding the keyboard chair in Solomon Burke's
band.
My major influences are Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney,
Bill Withers, Louis Armstrong, Me'Shell Ndegéocello,
Earth, Wind & Fire, Stravinsky, Prince, Chester
Thompson, Steely Dan, George Gershwin. Mentors:
Emil Richards, Ira Hearshen and Cat Gray.
I've performed live with Teena Marie, Patti Brooks
and Ike Turner, been on studio sessions for Chaka
Khan and Thomas Dolby, written cues and songs
for "Touched By An Angel," "Dawson's Creek" "Ed,"
Soul Food and Backflash, performed
trailer music for Disney's Inspector Gadget
2 and scored the films Blink Of An Eye
and (the recently completed) Hellborn.
Solomon has recently released an album so we're
supporting that with some live dates, another
Disney trailer for George Of The Jungle 2
and I'm scoring a comedy film, Bachelor Man. |
 Andrew
Chuckerman: I'm a composer, songwriter, orchestrator
and keyboardist originally from Chicago, and currently
working in Los Angeles.
I'm very fortunate to enjoy a busy and varied
career that straddles many mediums - film, television,
recording, symphonic concert work and musical
theater, all of which allow me to compose and
perform in virtually all styles of music, from
pop, R&B, and country to jazz, classical, latin,
and gospel.
My influences are Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers &
Hart, Arlen, Kern, Ellington, Stevie Wonder, Paul
Simon, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Elton John,
Lennon/McCartney, James Taylor and Jimmy Webb.
I also have a passion for Chopin, Rachmaninoff,
Ravel, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Copland, Korngold,
and Herrman, Arthur Rubenstein, Vladimir Horowitz.
Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans and George
Shearing. My mentors were the late Dick Grove
with whom I studied orchestration and the late
Lucille Gould with whom I studied piano.
I'm the composer and co-lyricist of the musical,
The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea,
with libretto and co-lyrics by fellow ASCAP member
Karole Foreman. Presented in the ASCAP/Disney
Musical Theatre Workshop in its early development,
The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea has
garnered the Richard Rodgers Award and the Jonathan
Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award. Various
numbers from the show have enjoyed performances
by Grammy winners Al Jarreau, Stephanie Mills,
Tony-winner Lillias White, along with symphonic
commissions at Carnegie Hall, the Danish Radio
Concert Orchestra, and Madison Square Garden.
The musical will be enjoying its world premiere
at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta during the
2003-2004 theatre season. My film and television
work has included composing and keyboard work
on television's "Murphy Brown," "The Wonder Years,"
"Even Stevens" (currently on ABC and Disney Channel)
and the feature film, Tombstone, and
I am also a past participant of ASCAP's Film Scoring
Workshop.
Having accompanied a wide range of artists including
Stevie Wonder, LeAnn Rimes, Johnny Mathis, Carole
King, Diahann Carroll, and Maureen McGovern, I
am proud of my keyboard work on Rod Stewart's
standards album, It Had to be You, for
Clive Davis' J Records. |
