(On "The Road of Ghosts")
Michael Whalen: lead & backing vocals, piano, keyboards, drum programming and additional guitar * David Pack, Larry Hoppen & David Andrew Smith: backing vocals * Tony Levin: basses * Marc Copely: guitars & mandolin * Kevin Hunter: acostic guitar on “Blink of an Eye”
* Anthony Morra: drums* Vinnie Colaiuta: drums on “Seasons of Light” * Bob Magnuson: oboe on “Vanilla”
Two-time Emmy award-winner Michael Whalen is one of the most sought after composers in the United States. A veteran of over 500 TV and film scores, thousands of ads, numerous TV themes and corporate identity pieces, his music has been heard by literally hundreds of millions of people. Some of his best known work is the theme to ABC's "Good Morning America", music for "The Oprah Winfrey Show", "Inside Edition", hundreds of scores for PBS, National Geographic, Discovery, CBS, BBC, NHK, Disney, Hallmark, HBO and every major broadcast and cablecast outlet in the world. In May of 2009 Michael won his first BMI award in recognition of his work on the Emmy® award-winning "America at a Crossroads" series that he music supervised and wrote the series theme for in 2008.
Michael is also a prolific recording artist who writes and produces pop songs, ambient, new age, classical, and jazz music for a variety of recording labels and artists. His latest solo recording, "The Tree of Life", was released in January 2009. His brand new EP project, "The Road of Ghosts", features 6 all-new songs sung by Michael for the first time - ever. The recording will be released on July 21st, 2009 on iTunes, 200 other digital platforms and amazon.com for physical discs. In September look for Michael's "best of" collection of solo piano music entitled "Dancing in Black & White." He is also a noted producer & arranger having worked with artists from Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim to rock legend Brian Wilson to Oscar winner Howard Shore to Roberta Flack. His most latest producer project is working with NYC-based singer/songwriter Kristin Hoffmann on her new recording "The Waking" coming out in June 2009.
In 2003, Michael created "Music in the Dark". MITD is a LIVE performance he improvises music "scores" for 8 new silent films in front of a packed audience. Music in the Dark 09' is scheduled for Fall 2009. Michael is playing a series of concerts throughout 2009 at venues on the East Coast. Look for dates on this page.
For more information about Michael: http://www.michaelwhalen.com
