Adam Gubman (born April 7, 1979) is an American songwriter,
arranger, and composer.
Gubman has composed music for more than 550 video games, as well as television soundtracks, advertising music and pop music.
He has released several albums, but only two under his own name: "Sunday Rain" (1994)
and "Dark Matter" (2014), a collection of 12 horror orchestral cues.
Biography
Adam Gubman was born at
Anaheim, California and raised in
Southern California
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where he lives in 2016,
Gubman spent a part of his adolescence in
Plymouth, Minnesota. His grandfather introduced him to "
Deluxe Music Construction Set" on the
Amiga computer in 1984,
and he experimented with composing. Gubman started to play the piano and compose music at the age of seven,
and played in bands through high school. He joined marching bands and a show choir.
He spent a lot of time playing
videogames as well. In 1997, Gubman began attending the
California State University at
Long Beach. He took a break until 2003 when he resumed his studies,
and completed a
degree in
Musical composition
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and
Theory
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in 2006.
Career
In 1994, Gubman released the album ''Sunday Rain'' under an independent record label.
The album contained contributions from songwriter/producer Andy Dodd and singer Kevin Odekirk. Right after graduating from high school in 1997, Gubman worked for producer
C. J. Vanston in Hollywood, and assisted on projects with
Michael Bolton,
Carole King
Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician renowned for her extensive contributions to popular music. She wrote or co-wrote 118 songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billbo ...
, and the
Christopher Guest's film "
Best in Show".
Gubman was one of four producers on "
This Is Me", by Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, from ''
The Greatest Showman''. The song was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe in 2017.
In January 2000, Gubman created a publishing company, "Gubman Music International", of which he remains the director in 2015. After a short time as a pop producer in the early 2000s, Gubman returned to University. During this period, he produced music for several indie artists, worked on a few indie
movie scores, taught piano, and wrote his first musical, entitled "The Recital".
In 2006, after graduating from University, Gubman co-composed, along with composer
Jeff Kurtenacker, the soundtrack for the videogame "
Pirates of the Burning Sea", a
massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Flying Lab Software and published by
Sony Online Entertainment.
Gubman then worked as a contract composer for "SomaTone Interactive Inc." and "Non-Stop Music". Since then, his work has been featured on hundreds of
video game
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s (of which many are published by well-known
software houses),
TV commercials,
TV news packages, etc.
Gubman's notable collaborations include singer Traci Hines,
violinist
Taylor Davis,
composer
Austin Wintory and the "".
As a contract composer, Gubman has written for
NBC television broadcasts of the
2012 Winter Olympics, the
2012 Presidential Election and the
2011 Royal Wedding.
In 2013, under the direction of
Warner/Chappell Music, Gubman composed a replacement for NBC's ''
Today'' theme, which has been previously written by
John Williams
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.
Currently, Gubman is a partner at Moonwalkaudio, a full-service audio pipeline management company.
In early 2021, Gubman released the demos for an original animated musical he had written, known as ‘Seeds’.
Awards
References
External links
Adam Gubman – official website*
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1979 births
American male composers
Living people
American male songwriters
American television composers
American video game composers
21st-century American composers
ASCAP composers and authors
21st-century American male musicians