Greg Reitan

Born in Seattle, Washington in 1973, Greg Reitan is a jazz pianist and composer known for his post-bop approach. Interested in music at the age of 10, he began to study the piano with several pianists, spending summers at the Bud Shank Jazz Workshop in Port Townsend, Washington. He won the Kreielsheimer Scholarship at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and two scholarships to the Berklee School of Music in Boston. Moving to Los Angeles, California in 1991, attending the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, studying both composition and film composition. In 1995, Greg Reitan was awarded the Harry Warren Prize for Film Scoring. Since then, he has been a film composer and producer working with Score Productions and providing music for ABC, CBS, and CNN. He also scored the soundtrack to the independent film Dumbarton Bridge, which won the Grand Prize for Best Score at the 1999 Providence R.I. Film Festival. Founding his own production company, Evergreen Point Music, he created music for Warner Bros., NBC News, XM Satellite Radio, and a variety of film projects. In 2002, he won the first ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award for his composition, "Man Overboard". Outside of his film work, Greg Reitan continued to perform internationally and began releasing a series of albums beginning with 2009’s Some Other Time. Further albums include Antibes (2010), Daybreak (2011), Post No Bills (2014), and West 60th (2019).

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