Producers – Alfred Solis & Keith Robinson
Book & Lyrics by Alfred Solis
Music by Keith Robinson and Amy Baer
Music Director – Keith Robinson
ALFRED SOLIS is currently a director at an education non-profit, but musical theatre was always his passion. In 2003, Alfred started writing and singing rudimentary tunes for LiGHTS KARMA ACT!ON, the original title for STANDBY. He fortunately met Keith who made the music come to life. They worked for a year and half to create the first demo CD, then life happened. After a seven year hiatus and the wonderful addition of Amy, Alfred co-produced the New York Concert Reading of STANDBY at the American Theatre of Actors in 2011.
KEITH ROBINSON has been composing and arranging music of music for over 15 years and continually works as a film & TV composer, music editor, and sound designer in New York City. Currently, he is Vice President and developer at Sample Logic LLC sample library company and is also part of the Adjunct Faculty at the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music (NYU).
Notably, Keith has recently completed authoring his first book Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8: Create, Produce, Perform published by Focal Press, October 2009.
Keith holds a Bachelors degree in Music Education & Trumpet performance and a Master’s degree in Music Technology: Scoring for Film and Multimedia from New York University. Film Credits: El Cantante, Feel the Noise, Borderland, One Heartbeat: Bobby Bowden and the Florida State Seminoles, The Unwilling
AMY BAER is a New York based composer for film, television, and theatre. She earned her Masters in Film Composition from NYU, and also participated in the Tony winning BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.
In addition to writing for television and theatrical trailers such as The King’s Speech, Amy currently serves as a copyist and music assistant to other New York based composers such as Howard Shore and the musical group, HEM. Her projects have led her to work with such with artists such as Anne Hathaway and Audra McDonald. Most recently she composed for the National Geographic Documentary Hunting with Giants and completed the music preparation for Martin Scorcese’s upcoming film, Hugo. Currently she serves as an orchestrator for Vinnie Favale’s new musical, Hereafter, which is scheduled to open March 2012.