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Alan Ross Fleishman has played the piano and written music since he was 8 years old. The winner of numerous piano performance awards in the WashingtonD.C. area where he grew up, Alan went on to receive a degree in piano performance under a music scholarship to Duke University. During his tenure at Duke, he performed piano concertos with the Duke Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, and gave numerous piano recitals. He also discovered and fell in love with jazz while at Duke. He studied with some of the great piano virtuosos of our time including Lazar Berman, Guido Agosti, and legendary jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams. Continuing his musical education at the Eastman School of Music, Alan studied film music composition and jazz arranging and was awarded the prestigious Duke Ellington Scholarship Award for outstanding achievement. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles to write music professionally for film, television, and musical theater. One of his first professional jobs was as the co- musical director for a Los Angeles production of Stephen Sondheims The Frogs. Alan has since gone on to write numerous popular songs, scores for three feature films, and music for television shows including the theme for the Emmy award winning KCET Journal. In 1999, Alan was selected to receive one of ASCAPs prestigious Film Scoring Award Scholarships. Then in 2003 Alan was asked to write two songs for the Broadway musical "Josephine", the life stroy of Josephine Baker which is still in development. He has recently written the theme for the reality TV series "The Battalion" and was commissioned to write the opening theme music for the stage production "Hour Of Power" (see song selections), being presented around the country in public and private schools and designed to keep kids motivated and excited about learning.