About Me
George Whitty is a keyboardist, Emmy-nominated composer, Grammy-winning producer and mix engineer. As a pianist and synthesist, he's spent 15 years playing live with the Brecker Brothers, David Sanborn, Richard Bona, Chaka Khan, Sadao Watanabe, and a dozen others, and his recording resume includes some of the best-selling records of all time: Santana's "Supernatural" (with Dave Matthews), Celine Dion's "Falling Into You" and "These are Special Times", and nearly 100 other CDs. As a producer, his Grammy-winning streak began with Chaka Khan's "The Woman I Am" in 1992 and extends through 3 releases with the Brecker Brothers, most recently Randy Brecker's CD "34th and Lex", 2004's Grammy-winner for Contemporary Jazz Record of the Year, which he produced, programmed and mixed. As a composer, he's written for hundreds of episodes of television, working on a dozen shows from "The Road to Stardom with Missy Elliot" to "As the World Turns", for whose music he was nominated for a 2006 Emmy award. A master mix engineer, he's mixed releases by Michael Bolton, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle and the Brecker Brothers, among nearly 50 others. George is a proud Daddy to 2 very small boys and recent emigree to the Los Angeles area, where he's taking a bit of a break from the road and focussing on composing for film and TV; his work recently won 2 Gold Medals at the 2008 Park City Film Music Festival. His full recording resume (actually missing several good CDs) is here :and a website featuring his work for film and television is here :Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the music, and send George a note!
