Georg Egloff

{{short description|American film music composer (born 1963)}}

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| birth_name = Georg Brandl Egloff

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| birth_place = Monterey, California, U.S.

| occupation = Producer, composer

| years_active = 1994–present

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| 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).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R13OAgAAQBAJ&q=georg+brandl+eglof+music&pg=PA254|title=This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman |publisher=Henry Holt & Company |date=2008 |isbn=9781429933834 |access-date=March 8, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.177milkstreet.com/radio/cast|title=Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio Cast |publisher=Milk Street Radio |date= |access-date=March 8, 2020}}

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 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1241228/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0|title=Film and Television Credits|publisher=IMDB |date= |access-date=April 15, 2020}}

In 2004, Egloff appeared in an episode of The West Wing playing a Hammond organ with James Taylor.{{cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/change-is-gonna-come-episode-7-aired-12-1-04-pictured-georg-news-photo/140852129|title=The West Wing - Georg Egloff performs with James Taylor |publisher=Getty Images |date=February 1, 2004 |access-date=March 8, 2020}}

=Filmography=

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Production

rowspan="1" |2020

|Shameless

|Composer, additional music

|Showtime

rowspan="2" |2019

|The Magicians

|Composer, additional music

|Syfy

Wayne

|Composer, additional music

|YouTube Premium

rowspan="3" |2018

|American Woman

|Composer, additional music

|Paramount Network

Super Troopers 2

|Composer, arranger

|Fox Searchlight Pictures

Shameless

|Composer, additional music

|Showtime

rowspan="3" |2016

|The Goldbergs

|Composer, additional music

|ABC

Shameless

|Composer, additional music

|Showtime

Spirit Lake Cycles

|Composer

|Documentary

rowspan="1" |2014

|Shameless

|Composer, additional music

|Showtime

rowspan="2" |2013

|Under the Dome

|Composer, additional music

|CBS

BlacK Kat

|Composer

|Documentary

rowspan="3" |2012

|The Babymakers

|Composer, additional music

|Blumhouse Productions

Shameless

|Composer, additional music

|Showtime

Little Monsters

|Composer

|VCI Entertainment

rowspan="2" |2011

|Pan Am

|Composer, additional music

|ABC

The Lying Game

|Composer, additional music

|Warner Horizon Television

rowspan="1" |2010

|The Company Men

|Composer, additional music

|NBC

rowspan="4" |2009

|Southland

|Composer, additional music

|NBC

ER

|Music producer, composer, additional music

|Warner Bros. Television

Spooner

|Composer, additional music

|Super Crispy Entertainment

All Ages Night

|Composer, additional music

|Freedom Girl Productions

rowspan="1" |2008

|Cold Case

|Composer

|CBS

rowspan="1" |2006

|Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

|Composer, additional music

|Warner Brothers Television

rowspan="2" |2003

|The West Wing

|Actor, musician (duet with James Taylor)

|NBC

The West Wing

|Additional composer

|NBC

rowspan="3" |2002

|The Big Time

|Composer, additional music

|TNT

Studio Bob (TV series)

|Composer

|Brian Cox

Over My Dead Body (short)

|Composer

|Arie Posin

rowspan="1" |2001

|The Jimmy Show{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0271020/credits/?ref_=bo_tt_tab|title=The Jimmy Show|publisher=Box Office Mojo |date= |access-date=March 14, 2020}}

|Composer, additional music

|Next Wednesday Productions

rowspan="3" |2000

|Citizen Baines

|Composer, additional music

|Warner Brothers Television

Prince of Central Park

|Composer, additional music

|Lorimar Productions

Are You Cinderella (short)

|Composer

|Charles Hall

rowspan="2" |1999

|Third Watch

|Composer, additional music

|NBC

Providence

|Composer, additional music

|NBC

rowspan="2" |1997

|Daisy Feldman's New York (short)

|Composer

|Amy Geltman

Prix Fixe (short)

|Composer

|Other Pictures

rowspan="2" |1996

|Intimate Portrait: Doris Duke

|Composer

|Lifetime

The O.J. Simpson Trial: Beyond Black & White

|Composer

|ABC

rowspan="1" |1995

|Intimate Portrait: Katharine Hepburn

|Composer

|Lifetime

rowspan="1" |1995 - 1999

|Biography (19 episodes)

|Composer

|A&E

References