Loren Toolajian
- Composer
- Music Department
- Sound Department
Composer, music producer, & broadcaster, Loren Toolajian continues to explore the creative process in myriad ways. At Signature Theatre Company, he's collaborated with T Bone Burnett, and composed music for the playwrights Horton Foote, Bill Irwin, Adrienne Kennedy, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Regina Taylor, and Lanford Wilson, among others. He's produced songs for Meghan Andrews, Sheryl Crow, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Hudson, the band Huge, Alicia Keys, Jesse Lenat, and Brad Paisley, and written songs and music directed the Muppets on Sesame Street.
As a radio broadcaster, he's program-directed in San Francisco & New York, hosted an afternoon drive show on KUSC in Los Angeles and, since 2007, has produced weekly live opera broadcasts on Sirius/XM from the Metropolitan Opera, and produced and conducted live backstage interviews during the live Saturday afternoon Met Opera broadcasts heard around the world by more than 10 million people.
An award-winning film and television composer, he's written music ranging from the theme to HBO's Def Poetry Jam and Showtime's "Les Mais," to Opening music for the Indy 500 and underscore for the documentary Prison Lullabies, among others.
As a radio broadcaster, he's program-directed in San Francisco & New York, hosted an afternoon drive show on KUSC in Los Angeles and, since 2007, has produced weekly live opera broadcasts on Sirius/XM from the Metropolitan Opera, and produced and conducted live backstage interviews during the live Saturday afternoon Met Opera broadcasts heard around the world by more than 10 million people.
An award-winning film and television composer, he's written music ranging from the theme to HBO's Def Poetry Jam and Showtime's "Les Mais," to Opening music for the Indy 500 and underscore for the documentary Prison Lullabies, among others.