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

If you've
seen a movie in the last ten years, you've probably heard the flute
styles of Geri Rotella. She has appeared on numerous
soundtracks, including August Rush,
Blades of Glory, Bobby, Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius,
Bridge to Terabithia,
Bruce Almighty, Dark Water, The Day after Tomorrow, Dreamer,
Eight Legged Freaks, Flight of the Phoenix, Gigli, House of Sand and Fog, Inside Man, I, Robot, Jeepers
Creepers 2, King Kong (2005),
The Kite Runner, The Legend of Zorro, Life as a House, The New World, Panic Room, Peter Pan
(2003), Pirates of the
Caribbean: At World's End,
Signs, The Skeleton Key, Spanglish, Steamboy, Stop
Blink Look, Tackle Box, The Village, War of the Worlds (2005), and The World's Fastest Indian. How, then, did she find time to
record with Vanessa Carlton, Harry Connick, Jr., Placido Domingo, Al Kasha, Mark Masri,
Brian McKnight, Sharon, Lois & Bram, Frank Sinatra, and Tony Williams? In 2002, Geri appeared on Dennis
James' Cristal - Glass Music
through the Ages and John Lithgow's Farkle & Friends. A
year later, she was performing in concert with the Los Angeles Master
Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall in a program of music ranging from 20th-century
composers John Adams and Bobby McFerrin to Bach. She also appeared on a compilation
album entitled Sci-Fi in Hi-Fi. This
versatile flautist even appears on video games: You may have been mesmerized by her
woodwinds on Destroy All Humans! and/or Spider-Man
2. She's even got
Broadway covered: She appears
on the 1995 original cast album of Jekyll
& Hyde