Bruce Babcock

Bruce Babcock has spent his working life composing music for the musicians of Los Angeles. His mentors in Hollywood included Hugo Friedhofer, Paul Glass, and Earle Hagen. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series in 1992, one of eight total Emmy nominations in a ten-year period, as well as eight TV/Film awards from BMI. While at California State University, Northridge his Impasse was performed for Aaron Copland during his 1975 residency. Copland’s comments on the piece, recorded for posterity, include “an impression of musicality which is very pleasant, indeed…a convincing sense of an overall mood…knows what he wants…sure of what he’s doing.”
His music has been performed and/or recorded by Grammy winners Gloria Cheng, Hila Plitmann, and The Crossing, the Debussy Trio, the Antioch Ensemble, the Haga Motettkör of Göteborg, Sweden, the Space Coast Symphony, the Altius Quartet, the Sirius Quartet, and the Armadillo Quartet. Bruce’s music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Boston Metro Opera, the Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival, the Beverly Hills International Music Festival, and Schoenberg Hall and Royce Hall at UCLA, on tour in China, and inside the dome of the 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, CA.
His work on the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves soundtrack and Metallica’s S&M album received RIAA Platinum recognition.