A protégé of Randy Newman, our next guest earned a DMA in Composition at USC’s Thornton School, where he studied with Donald Crockett and Stephen Hartke. As a guitarist, he has performed onstage as opening act for The Who at the Hollywood Bowl; recorded studio sessions for Island/Def Jam, and Universal Records; and had songs featured on NETFLIX’ FIREFLY LANE, ABC’s SCRUBS, MTV, and VH-1. 

He is an EMMY Award-winning composer whose work for Film and TV includes scores for Netflix' Godless, directed by Scott Frank and produced by Steven Soderbergh, starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Dockery, as well as Universal Pictures' A Walk Among the Tombstones, starring Liam Neeson. His most recent collaboration with Scott Frank is Netflix #1 show The Queen's Gambit and I'm so excited to welcome him on the show!