Ed Neumeister

About Ed Neumeister

Ed Neumeister was born in Topeka Kansas and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 50’s and 60’s. He was a longtime fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. After moving to New York in 1980, Ed performed for 15 years in the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and 19 years with the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra (later becoming the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra). Other renowned artists he performed and recorded with include Jerry Garcia, Gerry Mulligan, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn. Not limited stylistically he also collected experience by performing with classical orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Ballet. In 1992, Ed toured for the first time as a guest soloist in Europe. Since then he has been invited extensively as a conductor and guest soloist in Europe and US. Many of these invitations include composition commissions because of his unique mixing from the traditions of Big Band Jazz and Contemporary Classical. His arrangement of “A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square“ was nominated for a Grammy Award. Through his conducting and composing activities Ed established, among others, a regular relationship with the Metropol Radio Orchestra (Netherlands) and the Budapest Jazz Orchestra (Hungary). Beginning back in San Francisco, Ed has always been leading and composing for his own ensembles. He is the founder of the NeuHat Ensemble in New York, an 18-piece hybrid ensemble, and ENJO (Ed Neumeister Jazz Orchestra) in New York and Los Angeles. As a leader, he has recorded seven albums. Since 2007 Ed has also been active in the film music business. He has contributed orchestrations for films such as “Inception“, “Pirates of the Caribbean-On Stranger Tides”, “Sherlock Holmes“, “The Dark Knight Rises“ and the “2012 Academy Awards”. He has scored several small indie films. Ed Neumeister is Professor of Jazz Trombone at the University of the Performing Arts, Graz Austria.

Experience

1. Compositions for Concerts, Film, Tv and Stage

   Composer

   Jan 2005 — Present

   Comfortable in many styles of music, including jazz, classical and more groove based music like funk, Ed would love to write a piece for you and your film, band, orchestra or group.

Education

• San Jose State University

  Music

  1970 — 1973

Skills

• Blues
• Orchestral Music
• Classical
• Concerts
• Improvisation
• Opera
• Conducting
• Recording
• Performing Arts
• Music Education
• Ensemble
• Musicians
• Music
• Saxophone
• Composition
• Funk
• Band
• Trombone
• Stage
• Jazz
• Songwriting
• Film Scoring
• Film
• Music Production
• Music Theory
• Chamber Music
• Orchestration