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Nan Schwartz

Advisory Board Member

Nan Schwartz is a Grammy®winning (Natalie Cole) and five-time nominated Grammy arranger, as well as a seven-time Emmy nominee for her compositions for television and film (In The Heat of the Night). In 2018, a symphonic album of her orchestral compositions was released on Divine Art Records; these works are now being performed live around the world. As a conductor and orchestrator, Nan has worked on such major Hollywood films as Jurassic World Rebirth, Frankenstein, Pinocchio, Mank, Harry Potter, Argo, Benjamin Button, and Julie & Julia. She produces and writes songs for the Latin market, and has conducted her music with an all-star cast and a 17-piece orchestra in four sold-out concerts at Herb Alpert’s Vibrato Jazz Grill. Nan has composed two musicals which are in development, with lyrics by Lorraine Feather.

Recent credits include collaboration on a ballet score with German trumpeter Till Brönner, the score for the podcast “Shofar, So Good,” and arrangements for jazz singer Nnenna Freelon (“Moon River”) and the Count Basie Orchestra. Nan teaches annually in Vienna and Prague.

A proponent of melodic, harmonically-rich music, Nan’s unique style, diversity and depth of experience– from synthesizer projects to hundred-piece orchestras–have helped create her sterling reputation as one of the world’s most talented composer/arrangers.