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Tom Hiel

About Me

To buy the score for "Swimming With Sharks" on itunes go here!
To buy Tom Hiel's solo piano release "Please..." on itunes go here!
Tom Hiel is an award winning composer for film and television living and working in Los Angeles. Hiel is best known for his work on the television show "The Practice" for which he composed the background underscore on 88 episodes for the last four years of the show. Hiel is also known for his score for the film "Swimming with Sharks" starring Kevin Spacey.
Hiel has also contributed additional underscore, orchestration, and arranging talents to the following major motion pictures: "Red Eye", "Cursed", "Good Boy", "Rugrats Go Wild", "Rugrats Go to Paris", "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys", "Angel Eyes", "The First 20 Million", and "Scary Movie 2"working with composers Marco Beltrami, and Mark Mothersbaugh
Recently Hiel has worked (and performed) with singer-songwriter Bryony Shearmur, recording and producing her EP. Also Hiel is co-writing and producing songs with Angie Mattson, Meiko, Susie Suh, and Jonneine Zapata. Also Hiel has co-written and produced the song "Everyday" with Meiko for the movie "A Plumm Summer". And Hiel has just finished co-composing the score with singer songwriter, AM, for "Man Maid" directed by Chirs Lusvardi. Hiel and AM also collaborated on the song "Here is Where I Want to Be" for the film
Hiel is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and the Univeristy of Minnesota.
CHECK OUT www.tomhiel.com for more music to listen to and PURCHASE if you so desire
Hiel is represented by: Tad Lumpkin, ICM, (310) 550-4404, [email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/05/2005
Band Website: www.tomhiel.com
Band Members: Well I'm a composer so its just me and my Steinway, my Martin HD28, my Mac, gigastudio, etc etc (and those wonderful session players like Mike Miller - best guitarist ever!, Chris Bleth - can he really play all of those woodwinds?, and Daphne Chen - viiolinist extroardinaire!, who make the music come to life)
Influences: Mahler, Wagner, John Adams, Steve Reich, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Lutoslawski, Ligeti, Lucky Mosko, Mort Subotnick, James Newton Howard, Marco Beltrami, Mark Mothersbaugh and Devo, Brian Eno, The Beatles, Talking Heads (Remain in Light), David Holmes, the Dust Brothers, Tosca (the band), Kruder and Dorfmeister, Bill Frisell, Steve Tibbetts, Leo Kottke, George Winston, Keith Jarrett Tom Hiel - "Flow"

Tom Hiel -"Down by Christmas Lake"

Sounds Like: Tom Hiel
Record Label: Echo Bay Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

A Plumm Summer on DVD!

Paramount Pictures releases our film A Plumm Summer on DVD all across North America today Tuesday May 5th!!    You can find it almost everywhere from Target, to Walmart, Amazon, etc... For those of yo...
Posted by on Tue, 05 May 2009 13:35:00 GMT

demo's demo's demo's and then Steve Tibbetts

So its been a crazy week of Demo-ing with AM for some things that I don't really want to jinx and then working with Lynhurst on a tune of theirs. VERY excited about how that is turning out.And then j...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:38:00 GMT

Is Myspace dated? (and done?)

Is Myspace done? just seems so dated when I come here (from Facebook naturally), it seems so dated. More friends over at facebook who are actually friends. And myspace seems like one big marketing ...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:06:00 GMT

music music music!

So I worked with AM again this week. Can't say for what it is right now, but really excited about how the music turned out. And worked with Lynhurst - http://www.myspace.com/lynhurstmusicand VERY e...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:14:00 GMT

Lynhurst at the Hotel Cafe this Friday! 7pm

Hey EveryoneA band I'm working with on few tunes is going to be back in town and performing live at the Hotel Cafe on Friday Feb 27th at 7pm - If you haven't seen them c'mon down and say hello. http:/...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:35:00 GMT

New Solo Piano CD "The Road Home" on iTunes!

Well I was FINALLY able to release this never heard before recording of solo piano pieces that I did. It's called "The Road Home" and it's on iTunes right now!
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:39:00 GMT

Tom Hiel Live! this summer

Weel, I finally did it! I booked a show at the Lake Harriet Bandshell this upcoming summer (yes they book this far in advance) Aug 16th, 5:30 PM. My first solo show in 17 years I believe. You see, ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:20:00 GMT

Finally! Obama won!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't believe it! Finally! A Democrat in the White House that the country can believe in!!! Fantastic!
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:12:00 GMT

Tom Hiel "Please..." on ITUNES!

Finally! go here and get the original 1988 solo piano release "Please..." on itunes!
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:57:00 GMT

Swimming with Sharks Score on itunes!

The Swimming With Sharks score is FINALLY on itunes! click here
Posted by on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:32:00 GMT