ROBERT ETOLL
(Film & Television Composer/Record Producer/Songwriter)

Career Overview

Film and television composer, record producer, songwriter ­ you name it, Robert Etoll does it and does it well. His dynamic musical talents can be heard on projects as diverse as recordings by Reba McEntire and Jennifer Love Hewitt, as well as work for film directors Steven Spielberg and Garry Marshall. Robert composed and performed the successful feature films The Danger Zone and Vampire at Midnight, and has scored a number of TV shows. In short, his work has pervaded television, radio, cinema and the record charts for years.

Born in upstate New York, Robert began formally studying guitar at age 7. Realizing his passion for music, he started taking piano lessons in high school and continued his higher education at Boston¹s esteemed Berklee College of Music, where Etoll majored in composition and performance. After playing in various bands since age 12, Robert formed a 10-piece horn band called Back Bay Brew that was based in Boston and successfully toured the East Coast.

This led to Robert's move to the West Coast to pursue his desire to compose music for film and television. A slight detour in his first few months in Los Angeles occurred after the world-famous jazz/rock drummer Alphonse Mouzon asked Etoll to be his guitarist on his European tours. During one of the tours, at a festival stop in Oslo, Norway, Robert got a chance to jam with guitar legend Jeff Beck, one of his childhood heroes. Obviously, a "highlight of my career," says Etoll.

Moving from performing to producing and writing songs was an easy transition. Robert quickly locked in a deal with Warner/Chappell Music Publishing, where he secured a number of covers domestically and internationally for many artists, including Reba McEntire, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Harumi Tsuyuzaki, Brigitte Nielsen and Nikka Costa.

From the songwriting world to composing music for film and television, his true passion, Etoll has established himself as the "go-to guy" in the realm of full-length feature films, documentaries, cartoon animation, television theme songs, and has become one of the top calls in the industry to "special compose" music for theatrical trailers. His production company, Robert Etoll Productions, has also spun off a music licensing company called Q-FACTORY (www.qfactorymusic.com) that specializes in unique music and sound design for the trailer industry with CD titles such as TRAILER RISES, PERCUSSIVE ELEMENTS, HITS-SWISHES-STINGERS-AMBIANCE-DRONES-ATMOSPHERES Volumes 1-4 and TRAILER INTROS to name a few.

Robert has also composed the original music for Cessna Aircraft's (www.cessna.com) promotional product videos and trade shows since 1995.

Additionally, Robert has instructed aspiring composers in the Extension program at the University of California at Los Angeles, teaching Music Composition for Film and Television.

Film & Television Composer

Robert has scored a number of full-length feature films, documentaries and TV shows, including Paramount Pictures' Running Cool and various music and songs for Gary Marshall¹s The Princess Diaries 2 and Exit to Eden, not to mention the full scores and songs for cult classics The Danger Zone and Vampire at Midnight. A trip to England was required to complete the score for Never Say Never Mind. Etoll's music for the Discovery Channel's The Impostors and The Power of Music has received rave reviews. Also for The Discovery Channel, he composed various cues for Before We Ruled the Earth and Red Flag. .A few years ago, Robert traveled to Japan to score 52 episodes of an animated cartoon series called Zoids. The show was such a success in Japan that it is now playing here in the States on the Cartoon Network daily. Also playing regularly and featuring Etoll's music are various episodes of Fox Sports Net's Beyond the Glory and ESPN's Sport Century: A Year in Review as well as the theme song for the #1 game show for The Game Show Network, Lingo.

Trailers & TV Spots

After scoring his first trailer for the marketing campaign of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part 3, Robert found a highly successful niche as one of the top calls in Hollywood for special scoring of trailers and TV spots for the film industry. His music has helped the promotion of more than 300 films, including: Spiderman 2, Kingdom of God, House of Flying Daggers, Batman Begins, The Manchurian Candidate, Bridget Jones's Diary, Chocolat, Boys Don't Cry, Dead Man Walking, Erin Brockovich, Fight Club, Indecent Proposal, Minority Report, The Cider House Rules, The Mask of Zorro, The People vs. Larry Flint, Unfaithful, The Usual Suspects, X-Men and many TV promo spots including American Idol, CSI:Miami, Boston Public, 24, House, The OC and Steven Spielberg's High Incident for DreamWorks Television (plus many more).

Songwriter/Producer

As a songwriter/producer, Robert wrote and produced seven songs for Jennifer Love Hewitt's debut CD, and is well represented on Reba McEntire's Grammy-nominated album Reba (which was No. 1 for eight weeks) with his song "Silly Me." He wrote and produced five songs (including her first hit single, "Time") for Harumi Tsuyuzaki, now a Japanese pop star. Crusader Records artist Debrae has just finished her debut CD, Desperate Heart, with Etoll producing all 11 songs and co-writing four, including the first single, "Take Me Now."