Garth Neustadter (born May 4, 1986, in

Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The county seat of Brown County, it is at the head of Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It is above sea l ...

) is an American composer and

multi-instrumentalist A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level of proficiency. Also known as doubling, the practice allows greater ensemble flexibility and more efficient employment of musicians, where a ...

Biography

Neustadter began studying the violin and piano at the age of four, later undertaking saxophone and voice studies. He completed undergraduate degrees in violin and voice performance at

Lawrence University Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeducati ...

and went on to study composition at the

Yale School of Music The Yale School of Music (often abbreviated to YSM) is one of the 12 professional schools at Yale University. It offers three graduate degrees: Master of Music (MM), Master of Musical Arts (MMA), and Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), as well as a jo ...

. In 2007, Neustadter was selected by veteran film composer

Hans Zimmer Hans Florian Zimmer (; born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Oscars and four Grammys, and has been nominated for two Emmys and a Tony. Zimmer was also named on the list of Top 100 Living ...

as the winner of the Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Competition. He subsequently composed feature-length scores for

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, Warner Bros., and

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. In 2011, Neustadter received a

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for his score for the PBS ''American Masters'' documentary, "John Muir in the New World". In 2015, Garth played at the Capitol Civic Centre in Manitowoc in the Garth Neustadter Trio with his mom and dad.

Awards

* 2007 - Winner of the Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Competition * 2010 -

ASCAP The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...

Morton Gould Morton Gould (December 10, 1913February 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist. Biography Morton Gould was born in Richmond Hill, New York, Richmond Hill, New York (state), New York, United States. He was recognized ...

Award recipient * 2011 - Primetime Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series * 2011 -

Young Jazz Composer Award recipientASCAP
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References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Neustadter, Garth 1986 births Living people Musicians from Green Bay, Wisconsin American male composers 21st-century American composers 21st-century American singers 21st-century American male singers