The Usual Suspects
Gio Washington-Wright's L.A. Studio Musicians Tribute Site


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Alan Steinberger is a first-call studio musician, principal
keyboardist with the Pasadena Symphony and Pasadena Pops, and a regular
with many jazz ensembles, theatre companies and choral groups. Alan has
served as a sub or extra with virtually every LA-area orchestra, and
accompanied a wide variety of artists including Jessye Norman, Andrea
Bocelli, Michael Crawford and Seth MacFarlane. He is a graduate of Indiana University.
Some familiar projects include:
- arranger, orchestrator and pianist for the Sony PlayStation 3 video games Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. Uncharted 2 won virtually every award including AIAS and BAFTA for best video game score of 2009.
- composer for the Pageant of the Masters, Laguna Beach
- piano soloist on the Academy Award-winning documentary March of the Penguins
- pianist on the Emmy Award-winning television film Temple Grandin
- arranger and piano soloist for the gold album Winterlude
Recent motion pictures (all as keyboardist):
- Toy Story 3 (Randy Newman)
- The Adventures of Tintin (John Williams)
- Tangled (Alan Menken)
- The Princess and the Frog (Randy Newman)
- A Christmas Carol (Alan Silvestri)
Television:
- Firefly (orchestrator, keyboardist, addl composing)
- King of the Hill (orchestrator, keyboardist, addl composing)
- The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad (all as keyboardist)
- composer of award-winning spots for Honda and Nike
- solo pianist on the 2010 Apple MacBook Air ad
A few unusual distinctions:
- named a Freunde des Hauses Bösendorfer
- recognized by Dr. Amar Bose as a Bose Corp. Live Music Pioneer
- featured as Tangled's one-handed thug who dreams of becoming a concert pianist
- caricatured on the Warner Bros. cartoon The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
2011 The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn [Music from the Motion Picture] John Williams Keyboards
2011 Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception [Original Video Game Soundtrack] Greg Edmonson Arranger, Orchestration
2010 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves [Original Video Game Soundtrack] Greg Edmonson Arranger, Orchestration
2005 Firefly [Original Television Soundtrack] Greg Edmonson Composer, Piano, Synthesizer
2005 March of the Penguins [Original Score] Alex Wurman Piano
1996 Mrs. Santa Claus [Original Soundtrack] Keyboards, Piano
2011 Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception [Original Video Game Soundtrack] Greg Edmonson Arranger, Orchestration
2010 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves [Original Video Game Soundtrack] Greg Edmonson Arranger, Orchestration
2005 Firefly [Original Television Soundtrack] Greg Edmonson Composer, Piano, Synthesizer
2005 March of the Penguins [Original Score] Alex Wurman Piano
1996 Mrs. Santa Claus [Original Soundtrack] Keyboards, Piano
Alan's work on an Apple commercial...