George Whitty

Who is George Whitty?

George Whitty is a musician/composer/producer/engineer currently living in Los Angeles. He's produced three Grammy Award winning CDs and was nominated for Emmy Awards for his composing on the long-running TV shows "One Life to Live" and "As the World Turns".

As a musician, he has played and recorded with artists such as Dave Matthews and Carlos Santana, Celine Dion, Michael and Randy Brecker, Chaka Khan, Richard Bona, Chris Minh Doky, Sadao Watanabe, Grover Washington, Jr., Till Brönner and other well-known artists. His discography includes more than 100 CDs as a producer or musician, and he has hundreds of compositions for film and TV playing on everything from nature documentaries to feature films to TV reality shows and some of TV's longest-running series.

George Whitty was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon and is a 1980 graduate of Marshfield High School. His brother, playwright Jeff Whitty won a Tony award for "Best Book for a Musical" for 'Avenue Q'. George Whitty's website and blog can be found here, and an extensive web-based instruction series he created, entitled MusicPath, can be found here