Bruce Babcock

Bruce Babcock is an Emmy-winning composer who has been successful in both film and television, and the concert hall. Babcock holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in music composition from California State University, Northridge. Babcock's mentors in Hollywood include Hugo Friedhofer, Paul Glass, and Earle Hagen.

Bruce has worked with everyone from Angela Lansbury to Metallica. In television, he earned six primetime Emmy nominations and two Daytime nominations (Casper - the animated series), as well as eight BMI Primetime Television Music awards. Primetime network series include Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, Father Dowling, Diagnosis: Murder, Jake & the Fatman, Falcon Crest, Island Son, Guns of Paradise, and MacGyver.

His film credits include orchestrations for, among others, James Newton Howard, Michael Kamen, Christopher Young, Alan Silvestri, Marc Shaiman, Don Davis, Mark Watters, and David Newman.

Bruce's music has been performed at Carnegie Hall and Boston Metro Opera, and recorded by Gloria Cheng, The Crossing, the Debussy Trio, Juliana Gondek, Doug Masek, and the Altius, Sirius, and Armadillo string quartets, and performed by Hila Plitmann, the Antioch Ensemble, the Donald Brinegar Singers, the Haga Motettkör of Göteborg, Sweden, the Space Coast Symphony, and at the Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival and the Beverly Hills International Music Festival, as well as inside the dome of the 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory. His music is included on eleven different albums on the Navona Recordings label.