Georg Egloff Explained

Georg Egloff
Birth Name:Georg Brandl Egloff
Birth Date:February 16, 1963
Birth Place:Monterey, California, U.S.
Occupation:Producer, composer
Years Active:1994–present
Children:2
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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, and A&E Biography, and is credited with writing the station ID music for the FX channel and the Hallmark Channel. He wrote the main theme music for This I Believe series on All Things Considered and Morning Edition, and composes and produces music for Milk Street Radio and America's Test Kitchen (PBS and NPR).[1] [2]

Early life

Georg Brandl Egloff was born in Monterey, California 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. 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 in 1986, where he performed as a jazz pianist in Manhattan. He served as the Tuesday night pianist at the famous Village Gate club on Bleecker Street. During that period, he performed at The Village Vanguard, the Blue Note, Chicago Blues, Zanzibar, the Knitting Factory, and Sweet Basil. He worked with many jazz and blues artists including Ruth Brown and Linda Hopkins.

In the 1990s, Egloff began working in rock and pop music venues with singers including Jeff Buckley, Joan Osborne, Ronnie Spector and Johnny Thunders. He recorded as a session keyboardist on many projects, including work for producers Phil Ramone and Frank Filipetti, and recorded a version of "My Way" for the Frank Sinatra 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, 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, Pan Am, Third Watch, Shameless, and various programs airing on HBO, Showtime, and Lifetime Television. His film work includes The Company Men, The Big Time, The Babymakers, and The Terminal.[3]

In 2004, Egloff appeared in an episode of The West Wing playing a Hammond organ with James Taylor.[4]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleProduction
2020ShamelessComposer, additional musicShowtime
2019The MagiciansComposer, additional musicSyfy
WayneComposer, additional musicYouTube Premium
2018American WomanComposer, additional musicParamount Network
Super Troopers 2Composer, arrangerFox Searchlight Pictures
ShamelessComposer, additional musicShowtime
2016The GoldbergsComposer, additional musicABC
ShamelessComposer, additional musicShowtime
Spirit Lake CyclesComposerDocumentary
2014ShamelessComposer, additional musicShowtime
2013Under the DomeComposer, additional musicCBS
BlacK KatComposerDocumentary
2012The BabymakersComposer, additional musicBlumhouse Productions
ShamelessComposer, additional musicShowtime
Little MonstersComposerVCI Entertainment
2011Pan AmComposer, additional musicABC
The Lying GameComposer, additional musicWarner Horizon Television
2010The Company MenComposer, additional musicNBC
2009SouthlandComposer, additional musicNBC
ERMusic producer, composer, additional musicWarner Bros. Television
SpoonerComposer, additional musicSuper Crispy Entertainment
All Ages NightComposer, additional musicFreedom Girl Productions
2008Cold Case ComposerCBS
2006Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip Composer, additional musicWarner Brothers Television
2003The West WingActor, musician (duet with James Taylor)NBC
The West WingAdditional composerNBC
2002The Big Time Composer, additional musicTNT
Studio Bob (TV series)ComposerBrian Cox
Over My Dead Body (short)ComposerArie Posin
2001The Jimmy Show[5] Composer, additional musicNext Wednesday Productions
2000Citizen BainesComposer, additional musicWarner Brothers Television
Prince of Central ParkComposer, additional musicLorimar Productions
Are You Cinderella (short)ComposerCharles Hall
1999Third WatchComposer, additional musicNBC
ProvidenceComposer, additional musicNBC
1997Daisy Feldman's New York (short)ComposerAmy Geltman
Prix Fixe (short)ComposerOther Pictures
1996Intimate Portrait

Doris Duke

ComposerLifetime
The O.J. Simpson Trial: Beyond Black & WhiteComposerABC
1995Intimate Portrait

Katharine Hepburn

ComposerLifetime
1995 - 1999Biography (19 episodes)ComposerA&E

Notes and References

  1. Book: This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman . Henry Holt & Company . 2008 . 9781429933834 . March 8, 2020.
  2. Web site: Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio Cast . Milk Street Radio . March 8, 2020.
  3. Web site: Film and Television Credits. IMDB . April 15, 2020.
  4. Web site: The West Wing - Georg Egloff performs with James Taylor . Getty Images . February 1, 2004 . March 8, 2020.
  5. Web site: The Jimmy Show. Box Office Mojo . March 14, 2020.