George Whitty is an American musician, composer, record producer, audio engineer and music educator.

Biography

Whitty was born and raised in

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, and is a 1980 graduate of Marshfield High School. As a musician, he has played and recorded with artists such as

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and

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''),

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'' and ''

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''), Michael and

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(four years on the road, seven albums),

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('' The Woman I Am''),

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, Chris Minh Doky, Sadao Watanabe, Grover Washington Jr.,

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(''Midnight'') and other well-known artists. His discography includes more than 100 CDs as a record producer or musician. In 2012, he formed the electric jazz trio, Third Rail, with Tom Brechtlein on drums and Janek Gwizdala on bass. In 2013, the band released the live CD ''Ignition: Live Across Europe'', composed of tracks recorded on the band's first tour of Europe. In August 2012, he performed at the

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with

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and Zakir Hussein in the Concert for Peace. In 2014, he appeared on several tracks as an orchestrator, synthesizer player and sound designer on Hancock's album, ''

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''. Whitty won an

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in 2014 for his work as a composer for the television series, ''

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'', and produced three

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winning CDs (most recently

's '' 34th N Lex''). Whitty was nominated for Emmy Awards for his composing on the long-running TV shows ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2015, he also began teaching jazz piano through ArtistWorks, an online music education website. In 2018, Whitty arranged three Hancock pieces for the

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with Hancock playing piano, which were performed at Disney Hall.

Personal life

His brother, playwright

Jeff Whitty Jeffrey Daniel Whitty (born September 30, 1971) is an American playwright, actor, and screenwriter. For the stage musical '' Avenue Q'', he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. For his work on the Fox Searchlight film '' Can You Ever ...

won a Tony Award for "Best Book for a Musical" for ''Avenue Q'', and was nominated for an

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for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2019.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitty, George Living people American jazz pianists American jazz keyboardists American music educators American television composers American film score composers American audio engineers Record producers from Oregon Songwriters from Oregon Emmy Award winners Grammy Award winners People from Coos Bay, Oregon Year of birth missing (living people)