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Gregory Jamrok
hails from the Midwest (where everyone else on the west and east coasts
is from). He grew up in Northwest Indiana, a
region of multi-ethnic cultural contrasts where the Serbian church
and the Croatian church compete to hold their festivals a week earlier
than the other, and where an Iranian man and his veiled wife may stand
in the check-out line of a supermarket behind two women in tight spandex
buying cigarettes on a break from the local strip joint. From
this industrial hodgepodge, Greg acquired his work ethic and a facility
in getting along with many types of people.
Greg started lessons on guitar in the second grade, and two years
later he took up the saxophone in the school band. Music quickly
became his favorite form of self-expression. He played in the
high school marching band, jazz band, musicals, and the Northwest Indiana
Youth Symphony, and studied theory with Chicago musicians David Bloom
and Kimo Williams. Despite the advice of his band director to
stay away from music as a profession, he headed out to Boston where
he majored in film-scoring at the Berklee College of Music. While
there, he won the George de la Rue Scholarship and, as a result, spent
a summer as an intern for a music editing company in Burbank. After
college, he moved to California, where he hangs out with his friends,
performs on guitar and bass, and works as an orchestrator for composer
David Newman.
Greg has many film credits as an orchestrator, including "The
Cat in the Hat," "How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days," and "Ice
Age." His other projects include serving as the scoring
consultant for "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," co-producing singer/songwriter
Brandon Schott's CD "Release," and writing the score for
the short film "3719 Broadleaf Road."
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