Brad Hatfield

Brad Hatfield

Brad Hatfield is an American jazz pianist and composer.

Hatfield lives in Boston, where he teaches songwriting at Northeastern University after teaching at Berklee College of Music and Boston College . He is also a visiting professor at the College of the Holy Cross .

He conducted the Youth Pops Orchestras in Detroit, Denver and Chicago. He toured the USA and the Far East with the Boston Pops Orchestra , and as a member of the George Russell Living Time Orchestra , he took part in tours of the USA, Europe and Asia. He has also performed as a pianist with the Utah Symphony Orchestra under Keith Lockhart and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under James DePriest . Since 2004 he has directed the Boston Pops Orchestra's Popsearch competition.

Hatfield composed numerous pieces of music for television productions and films, for example for the sitcom Style and Substance (with Jean Smart and Nancy McKeon ), for the television series The Sopranos , Rescue Me , Melrose Place , Saturday Night Live , Walker: Texas Ranger , Touched by an Angel and the films Borat , Analyze This , The Break Up and Cop Land . In Clint Eastwood's film Mystic River , he played the piano solos at the beginning and end of the film.

Hatfild u. a. with Aretha Franklin , Gary Burton , Carly Simon , Andrea Bocelli , Rebecca Parris , Rita Moreno , Yo-Yo Ma , Bono , James Taylor and Mark Murphy . He toured the United States with Mike Metheny and performed at the Montreal and Telluride jazz festivals. He toured Israel with Fusion guitarist Mordy Ferber .

Hatfield worked on the Grammy- nominated Celtic album and A Splash of Pops . He produced the album Mr. X for Mordy Ferber (with Jack DeJohnette , Eddie Gomez and Dave Liebman ). He also released several albums as a band leader ( "Straight up" Jazz and Cocktails and "Straight up" Solo Piano each with Vol. 2 and Holidays at Home with Brad Hatfield ).

Web links

• Brad Hatfield in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Brad Hatfield Productions