Greg Reitan

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Greg Reitan (* 1973 in Seattle ) is an American jazz pianist , composer and music producer .

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Greg Reitan took an interest in jazz at the age of ten and participated in Bud Shank's jazz workshops in Port Townsend , where he had piano lessons with Hal Galper and arrangement with John Clayton . He studied with scholarships at the Berklee School of Music and at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. In 1991 he moved to Los Angeles, continued his studies at the Thornton School of Music (UCLA), where he composed composition with Stephen Hartke , Frank Ticheli and Erica Muhl , piano with Milcho Leviev and Terry Trotter , and composition of film music with David Raksin and Christopher Young studied. Since 1995 he has worked primarily as a composer and producer of film music, composing music for the production company Score Productions and for the broadcasters ABC , CBS and CNN , as well as for the independent film Dumbarton Bridge (1999). In addition, he has so far released two albums under his own name in trio on Sunnysider Records, Some Other Time (2009) and Antibes (2010), musically based on models such as Bill Evans , Keith Jarrett or Chick Corea .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review of the Antibes album at All About Jazz
personal data
SURNAME Reitan, Greg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington, United States