George Whitty ! ! 310-488-9068 [email protected] PO Box 1975 Lake Arrowhead, CA 92352 Profile! I am a musician, producer, mix engineer, instructor and clinician, with extensive professional experience as a keyboardist with Herbie Hancock, David Sanborn, Carlos Santana, Celine Dion, Chaka Khan, the Brecker Brothers, Richard Bona, and a number of other artists, producing and mixing several Grammy- winning CDs for these artists as well. I have also earned a pair of Emmy nominations for my TV scoring and am well known in the music industry for my expertise as a computer-based music producer. Over the last 20 years I have been an instructor in a wide variety of settings, including private instruction from Norway to Japan, workshops and clinics around the world, and master classes at the Berklee College of Music. Over the last 2 years I have developed and produced an extensive series of online video instruction (currently more than 70 lessons) covering improvisation, production, arranging, mixing and more. In the classroom, I take great pleasure in sharing what I’ve learned, inspiring energy, optimism and confidence, and I consider my ability to distill the intangibles of music into teachable principles to be one of my greatest strengths as an instructor. An extensive collection of the music I’ve made, videos of live !performances, 60+ film cues, and more information can be found at my website: www.gwhitty.com Experience KEYBOARDIST - VARIOUS — 1992-PRESENT • THIRD RAIL - Completed 2nd European tour with my trio Third Rail in June 2014. Released a live CD from our European tour, Dec. 2013, which I also mixed, and composed most of the material. • HERBIE HANCOCK, WAYNE SHORTER and CARLOS SANTANA: Played keyboards and arranged for The Concert for Peace at the Hollywood Bowl, August 2012 • THE BRECKER BROTHERS REUNION BAND - played keyboards & served as Musical Director, including a tour of Europe and several week-long engagements at New York’s Blue Note. • DAVID SANBORN: Have played keyboards in this band frequently since 1999 • CHRIS MINH DOKY & THE NOMADS: 2 to 4 tours per year with this band, featuring Dave Weckl ! and Dean Brown. Released a live CD, The Board Tapes in 2013! COMPOSER - VARIOUS — 1994-2013 • ALL MY CHILDREN: Nominated for a 2014 Emmy award for my work on this show • THE GETDOWN: Scored this feature film, in the rotation on Showtime for the past 3 years • AS THE WORLD TURNS: 1998-2011. Composed nearly 200 cues for this show, nominated for a 2006 Emmy award • CD PROJECTS: Have written for CDs by artists such as Michael Brecker, Drew Zingg, Till Brönner, Third Rail and others • ASCAP’S FILM AND TV SCORING WORKSHOP: 2007 Harold Arlen Award winner, out of 300 applicants • MUSIC LIBRARIES: Have written 3 CDs worth of library music cues, which have been used on ! everything from German game show themes to Norwegian nature documentaries. INSTRUCTOR, CLINICIAN - WORLDWIDE — 1993-PRESENT • WORKSHOPS & CLINICS: Around the world at various institutions for the past 20 years. Workshops in the last 6 months include private clinics on improvisation, computer-based production and band workshops at Mannheim University, the Institut für Musik Ösnabruck, and the PopAkademie in Mannheim, Germany • MUSICPATH.NET: Subscription-based series of more than 70 video lessons I have created and produced on improvisation, orchestration, production, mixing and the music business. • YAMAHA ARTIST CLINICS: On synthesizer technique and improvisation, in Japan, 1990s • MASTER CLASS ON PRODUCTION, BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: 1998; Spent a day producing a track from scratch in Berklee’s studio for an advanced music production class. • PRIVATE LESSONS: Many students from around the world, usually during my travels; I have developed a very condensed, intensive approach to teaching what I call the “physics principles” of ! improvised music. PRODUCER — 1992-PRESENT • RANDY BRECKER: 3 CDs, mostly produced and programmed in my home studio, including Grammy-winner 34th & Lex • MICHAEL BRECKER: 2 CDs: 2001’s Grammy nominee Time Is Of The Essence, and Grammy- winner Tales From the Hudson in 1996 • CHAKA KHAN: 2 tracks from her 1992 CD The Woman I Am, which won a Grammy for Best R & B Vocal Performance • THE BRECKER BROTHERS: 2 Grammy-winning CDs: Return Of The Brecker Brothers (1992) and Out Of The Loop (1994) • RECENT PROJECTS: include a 2014 CD for Swiss artist Stephan Sieber, Her Song, and 3 cuts for ! Jeff Richman’s 2014 release Big Wheel ARRANGER — 1993-PRESENT • HERBIE HANCOCK & WAYNE SHORTER: Arranged 2 songs for full orchestra, one of which, Sonrisa, premiered with Herbie and several orchestras in November 2012 • HERBIE HANCOCK & LANG LANG: Arranged 2 versions of songs from West Side Story, America and Somewhere for a potential duo CD • DREW ZINGG: Arranged 2 pieces for Steely Dan/Boz Scaggs guitarist’s debut CD Drew Zingg, including an arrangement of I’m Easy for singer Michael McDonald • VARIOUS CD PROJECTS: I have always functioned as the arranger on projects I produce and play on, everything from working out the orchestration to the intros, endings, solo sections, ! reharmonizations, etc. MIX & MASTERING ENGINEER — 1993-PRESENT • MIX ENGINEER: I have mixed nearly 60 CDs, hundreds of cuts, including a Grammy winner (Randy Brecker’s “34th and Lex”, 2003) and a 4x Grammy nominee (Randy’s 2011 big band CD “The Jazz Ballad Songbook”). I have also mixed some 400 cues for film and TV shows ranging from “Science Times” to “As the World Turns”. • MASTERING ENGINEER: I have mastered some 40 CDs, including 2011 Grammy nominee “The ! Jazz Ballad Songbook” by Randy Brecker Education Berklee College of Music - 1980-1982. 2-Year Performance Certificate (Berklee’s rough equivalent to an Associate’s degree)

Private instruction with saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi - 1982-1984

ASCAP’s Film and Television Workshop with Richard Bellis - 2007. Harold Arlen Award winner

Skills Pianist, keyboardist, producer, electronic music production, mix and mastering engineer, arranger, business of music, music career counseling.

References Please contact me for information on any of the employers from the work listed above; any of them will testify to my abilities and my drive to give 110% to everything I undertake.