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Name
  
George Whitty

Role
  
Musician

Education
  
Marshfield High School


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Awards
  
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction And Composition For A Drama Series

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George Whitty is a musician/composer/producer/engineer currently living near Los Angeles. He won an Emmy award in 2014 for his work as a composer for the TV series "All My Children" and produced three Grammy Award winning CDs (most recently Randy Brecker's "34th and Lex") and was nominated for Emmy Awards for his composing on the long-running TV shows "One Life to Live" and "As the World Turns".

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As a musician, he has played and recorded with artists such as Dave Matthews and Carlos Santana ("Supernatural"), Celine Dion ("Falling Into You" and "These are Special Times"), Michael and Randy Brecker (4 years on the road, 7 CDs), Chaka Khan ("The Woman I Am"), Richard Bona (phenom from Cameroon), Chris Minh Doky, Sadao Watanabe, Grover Washington, Jr., Till Brönner ("Midnight") and other well-known artists. His discography includes more than 100 CDs as a producer or musician, and he has hundreds of compositions for film and TV playing on everything from nature documentaries to feature films to TV reality shows and some of TV's longest-running series.

George Whitty was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon and is a 1980 graduate of Marshfield High School. His brother, playwright Jeff Whitty won a Tony award for "Best Book for a Musical" for 'Avenue Q'. George Whitty's website and blog can be found here, and an extensive web-based instruction series he created, entitled MusicPath, can be found here

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References

George Whitty Wikipedia