The Illusionist - Title Sequence Music Recomposed by Garth Neustadter

Garth Neustadter is an Emmy Award-Winning composer and multi-instrumentalist. He has composed feature-length works for Warner Bros., PBS, Turner Classic Movies, and China's CCTV. The Baltimore Sun says of his work, "The guy's a natural, as his soaring theme makes plain."

In 2011, Garth became one of the youngest composers to receive a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the PBS 'American Masters' documentary, "John Muir in the New World."

In 2007, Garth was named the First Prize winner of the Turner Classic Movies Film Composers Competition. His score was chosen out of a field of over 850 international participants, and judged by Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer. He was subsequently commissioned by Warner Bros. and Turner Classic Movies to compose, record, and produce the feature-length score for the film "The White Sister," which
premiered on the TCM channel.

Neustadter has been recognized as a five-time DownBeat Magazine award winner in the areas of composition, arranging, classical violin performance, and jazz saxophone performance. His achievements have been profiled in USA Today, The Baltimore Sun, Film Music Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Downbeat Magazine and NPR. He has received multiple awards from ASCAP, including the Morton Gould award,
Jazz Composers Award, and fellowship to Aspen, as well as multiple awards from the National Federation of Music Clubs.

He has studied at the Yale School of Music with Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Theofanidis, Martin Bresnick and with Samuel Adler of the Juilliard School.

www.garthneustadter.com

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