Greg’s talent and work ethic have positioned him as one of Hollywood’s rising stars.At only 26, Greg has scored 5 feature films, most recently Chicago Overcoat starring Frank Vincent and Armand Assante; an orchestral score the WB’s web-series Smallville: The Vengeance Chronicles; an electronica score for the Sundance and Toronto selection above and beneath; commercial spots for clients ranging from International Truck Corporation to Peak6 Investments; and several casual video games, including the card-strategy game Armageddon Empires by Cryptic Comet software.

Greg is also an active concert composer, creating collaborative works that combine music with dance, film, and radio. His most recent work, Forbidden to Face the Natural Light mixes brass and percussion with clips from Ira Glass's Peabody-award winning radio show This American Live. In 2005 Greg collaborated with dance choreographer Kelly Bowker to create Falling from Rest, a 15-minute dance and music experience. In 2006 he sound designed and scored Jenny Montgomery’s The Oasis Project, a powerful theatre work born out of interviews with victims of genocide around the world.

Greg graduated with a degree in composition and music technology from the University of Michigan in 2004 and moved to New York to work with Charles Newman at Motherwest Studios. He also served as an assistant/orchestrator for Emmy winning producer/composer Brian Keane. In 2006 Greg moved to Chicago, where he continued to work as a composer and sound designer as well as play trombone in the punk marching band Mucca Pazza.

Greg moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and works out of his home studio in the Glendale area.

Television

Cavemen (orchestration) (ABC, 2007-2008)
Eureka (orchestration) (Sci-Fi, 2007)

Smallville: Ultimate Fan (WB, 2007)
Light: The Father Jay Doc (Twitch Films, 2007)
Smallville: The Vengeance Chronicles (WB, 2006)
Smallville: Making of a Milestone (WB, 2006)
Dare to Dream: US Woman’s Soccer (HBO, 2005)
You Write Better Than You Play (ESPN, 2005)
Gene and Jane (dir. Randy Casperson) 2003
Legendary Nights * EMMY WINNER(HBO) 2002

Film

Chicago Overcoat (Beverly Ridge Pictures, 2009)
The Battle (dir. Paul C Miller, 2009)
Ghosttown (Rebel Pictures, 2008)
ID Theft (Laguna Films, 2008)
Sea of Darkness (3to1 Films, 2008)
Dolls (dir. Randy Caspersen, 2008)
The Fantastic Magnifico (dir. Samuel Sharpe, 2009)
Suck (dir. Ben Ketai, 2007)
2nd de Noviembre (dir. Cezil Reed, 2007)
Greg's Leg (Chris Charles, 2007)
The Lycanthrope (Lucas Peltonen, 2006)
The Small Assassin (Beverly Ridge Pictures, 2006)
A Glimpse ( Cezil Reed, 2006)
The Kennel (Chase Pearsall, 2006)
Above and Beneath *SUNDANCE( Rene Alberta, 2004)

Games

Solitaire Curise (Inertia Software, 2007)
Armageddon Empires (Intelliwave, due 2008)
Mahjong! (Intertia Software, 2007)
The Great Wall of Words (Inertia Software, 2007)

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