Grammy Award Winner
Golden Globe Winner
16 Grammy Nominated projects
An American composer & producer, Gary Barlough was born & grew up in Los Angeles, and is of Hungarian ancestry. He is a graduate of the USC Thornton School of Music. Gary has worked as a film composer, song writer, and is an award winning producer/ engineer, who now works primarily out of his studio in Los Angeles, writing and producing music for all forms of media. Gary has been known for his style of music synthesis and sound design which has been apparent from the start. Those ideas have made their way into many bands and solo artist’s projects. He was awarded a Grammy Award as primary engineer for the “Best New Age CD”, “Thinking of You” released by artist Kitaro. He built sampled drum sounds for David Gilmour on Pink Floyd’s “Momentary Lapse of Reason CD”. He co-produced the film score for Oliver Stone’s “Heaven & Earth” which was awarded the Golden Globe Award for “Best Musical Score”, also by artist Kitaro. He produced the soundtrack for “The Soong Sisters” which won both the Golden Horse Award, and the Hong Kong Film Festival award for best music score. Projects he has been creatively instrumental on have been nominated for 16 Grammy Awards. Having guided many film and CD projects to successful releases, he is flexible in his approach, moving easily between composer and producer responsibilities in orchestral, electronic, or rock music.
Gary has worked with artists such as David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Yes, Jon Anderson, Kitaro, Mark Isham, David Kitay, The Yellow Jackets, Berlin, Stevie Wonder, David Baerwald, Divinyls, Toni Childs, Paul Rothchild, Bob Ezrin among others.
In 2014, he wrote the score and produced the soundtrack CD for the film “Snake and Mongoose”, with 7 mini-songs and accompanying score. He shared Music Supervisor responsibilities for the film. He has produced surround SACD, DVD-A projects, and is now beginning work with the Dolby Atmos Immersive Sound systems and it’s future applications to 9.1.2 music.
AWARDS
Grammy Award Winner – 2000 “Best New Age Album” – by Kitaro / Gary Barlough (primary engineer, music programmer)
Golden Globe Winner – 1994 “Best Music – Original Score” – by Kitaro/ Gary Barlough (co-producer soundtrack)
Golden Horse Award Winner – 1997 ” Best Musical Score” – by Kitaro/ score produced by Gary Barlough
16 Grammy Award nominations – primary contributor (as producer, enginner or programmer) – various artists
CLIENTS
(a list of select clients)
Pink Floyd
Berlin
Yes
Mark Isham
Oliver Stone/ Ixtlan/ Warner Brothers Pictures
Copernicus Studios
Universal Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Disney/ Disney Pearl Records
Golden Harvest Company
NHK TV
Capitol Records
EMI Records
Universal Music Group
A&M Records
Kitaro/ Domo Records
Entertainment Universe/ Snake and Mongoose LLC
NOTABLE:
Gary has recorded or edited the voices of:
Bono
Jim Morrison
Jon Anderson (Yes)
John Waite
Toni Childs
Franci
Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran)
Nathan Pacheco
Bill Champlin (Chicago)
many more….
ASSOCIATIONS
Andora Media Publishing, BMI
EDUCATION
Graduate USC Thornton School of Music