CINDY O'CONNOR just wants to make good music with good people!
OK, a more official-style bio...
Cindy O'Connor is a composer, arranger and performer for theater, film and TV. She was born in Santa Fe, NM and raised in Japan, New York and Los Angeles. Her parents knew she had a musical future when at age 5 she wrote a song on her little keyboard called "The Aku-Aku Foot Disease" (OK, a strange musical future perhaps...).
Currently Cindy divides her time between performing and writing music. As a singer and keyboard player she has played everything from classical concerts to rock & roll to electronica. She has toured with rock superstar Pat Benatar, Grammy-winning trumpeter Mark Isham, the vocal jazz quintet Pacific Swingline, and Petra Haden's "Sellouts" (a cappella arrangements of The Who's album "Sellout"). TV appearances include Good Morning America, VH1's "Women Who Rock", and "Charmed".
She has had several original musicals produced in Los Angeles and throughout the US. Her musical "All That He Was" won the Kennedy Center/ACTF National Musical Theater Award and is published by Samuel French. She has composed music the off-Broadway premieres of Paul Engers drama "In The Air" and Kathleen Anderson Culebro's "La Llorona", and she is looking forward to another play in New York this winter. She is currently developing a new musical, "40 is the new 15", with the Academy for New Musical Theater in Los Angeles. Watch this space for performance listings in 2008.
Her film credits include orchestrations for Reservation Road, additional music for The Black Donnellys (NBC series) and The Black Dahlia, arranging and programming for Crash, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, Bobby, Eight Below, and other films far too numerous to enumerate (look on IMDB if you're curious). Some folks know her as Mark Isham's right hand studio gal. She recently scored the independent feature "Forgiving the Franklins", which played at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and is slowly making its way into theaters.
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