MICHAEL LANG

Mike Lang is an American pianist and composer, born December 10, 1941 in Los Angeles. He received a Bachelor of Music at the University of Michigan in 1963. In addition, he has studied under Leonard Stein (piano) and George Tremblay (composition). In Los Angeles, he studied with Pearl Kaufman and Lalo Schifrin, and commenced a freelance recording career in records, motion pictures and television. He is conversant with every possible music idiom and form, including jazz, classical, pop and R&B and has played with a great amount of artists including Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Vince Gill, Milt Jackson, Lee Konitz, Diana Krall, John Lennon, *NSYNC, Arturo Sandoval, Barbra Streisand and Frank Zappa - to mention a few. He has recorded more than 2000 scores, working with virtually every film composer including John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Newton Howard, Henry Mancini, Elmer Bernstein and Hans Zimmer. He read more...