At some point, within the last day, week, or month, you’ve probably heard or watched something that Emmy Award winning composer Gary Schreiner has created.
Gary is as accomplished a performer and studio musician, as he is a composer, producer and arranger. His work on keyboards, accordion and chromatic harmonica can be heard on many recordings, television shows, and films. He has worked with diverse artists such as Elton John, Rosanne Cash, Joan Osborne, Patti LaBelle, Pedrito Martinez, Yoko Ono, Pheobe Snow, Marvin Hamlisch, Run-DMC, Lucy Kaplansky, Carly Simon, Rickie Lee Jones, Janis Siegel (Manhattan Transfer), Ute Lemper, John Pizzarelli, Spyro Gyra, Rick Moranis, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Kermit the Frog, and World Champion figure skater Randy Gardner.
He recently produced “Aztec Two Step’s” album “Naked” as well as having produced and arranged Rick Moranis' last album "My Mother's Brisket & Other Love Songs".
Gary has written music for hundreds of television commercials including: Award winning Cotton Council Commercial, Ralph Lauren (My Romance), McDonalds, Pepsi, Applebees, Advil, Honey Bunches of Oats, Duracell, and a number of Super Bowl spots (including one for Pepsi). His arrangement and production of Stevie Wonder's “Don’t You Worry About a Thing”, was the long-running centerpiece of UPS’s national campaign.
His musical compositions have also been featured on many TV shows including Chappelle’s Show ( the infamous “Knee High Park” (Muppet-like-puppets-singing-about-all-sorts-of-venereal-diseases-episode!).
Gary has composed, in collaboration with his writing partner, Curt Sobel, music featured in films such as “Ray”, “Donnie Brasco”, "Parker", “Thank You for Smoking”, “Love Happens”, and “Get On Up".
In the theater world Gary has co-written the music (with fellow Emmy-award winning composer, William Electric Black) for the shows "American Star!!!”, “My Boyfriend is a Zombie" and most recently “Betty and The Belrays”. All shows were performed at the Theater for the New City featuring Gary onstage as the show’s musical director.
Gary recently composed original music with Alison Larkin and performed in her show, “Grief, the Musical… a Comedy” at The Great Barrington Public Theatre as well as The Soho Theatre in London..
Previously Gary composed the music for Alison Larkin’s one-woman show “The English American”, featured in the The Edinburgh Festival and The London Comedy Festival (with other performances in New York City and Los Angeles), which inspired Alison to write the bestselling novel by the same name.