Doris Roberts with William Malpede and Rick Garcia

William Malpede with Burt Bacharach

William V Malpede - Spiderman 3 crew

Spiderman 3 Scoring Crew at Sony

April 1, 2011 Theatrical premiere of “Another Harvest Moon” in
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

March 10, 2011 “Edifice” for wind ensemble receives its world premiere at CalState University, Northridge, by the award-winning CSUN Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Lawrence Stoffel.

January 2011 Assisting Broadway musical director Phil Reno on workshop of new musical, “The Gift of the Magi,” from Tony Award-winning Steven Sater and Grammy Award-winning Burt Bacharach.

February 2010 “Another Harvest Moon” is a featured film with three sold-out screenings at the Sedona International Film Festival. www.anotherharvestmoon.com

November 2009 Finish production on two new CDs: “Where the Gentlemen Live.” New country-pop CD from artist Taryn Reneau: www.tarynreneau.com “Let’s All Sing With Miss Brown.” New children’s CD featuring original arrangements co-written/co-produced with David Coury

October 2009 “Another Harvest Moon” is a featured film at the Hollywood Film Festival.

September 2009 “Guys ‘N Divas: Battle of the High School Musicals” premieres on Showtime. Directed by Barry W. Blaustein; score by Malpede

August 2009 "Lucky Bastard Original Soundtrack" available at CDBaby:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/williamvmalpede

July 209 Rick Garcia and William V. Malpede awarded Grand Prize: Best Original Musical Composition (Score) for "Another Harvest Moon" at the Rhode Island International Film Festival

April 2009 Co-writing and producing songs with composer Harry Manfredini and songwriters Rick Garcia and Artie Q for Hallmark Channel film, “Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith.”
Music supervisor: Gina Amador; airing in June, 2009.

January 2009 Playing keyboards for World Premiere of another new musical at the Ahmanson: “Minsky’s” with Phil Reno music directing.

December 2008

Rene Reyes recording guitars for “Lucky Bastard.”

Perform with artist Ruby James.

October 2008 “Bangkok Dangerous” and “Other End of The Line” hit theatres with songs by Rick Garcia and Malpede.
September 2008

Playing keyboards for World premiere of the new musical , “Nine to Five” featuring songs by Dolly Parton. Premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre.

Begin second semester teaching “Music In Film” at California State Northridge.

August 2008

Sign on to score Everett Lewis’ latest feature, “Lucky Bastard.”

Writing Mariachi string arrangements with producer John Avila for the rock band El Bronx.

Providing additional orchestrations and synth programming for Havok Theatre’s production of “Kiss Of The Spider Woman.”

July 2008 “Guys ‘N Divas” score is completed. Look for the documentary on Showtime in Spring, 2009.

May 2008 Scoring orchestra and producing additional songs for Barry W. Blaustein documentary, “Guys ‘n Divas.”

April 2008 Working with songwriting partner Rick Garcia and music supervisor Gina Amador, we place four songs in the upcoming MGM film, “The Other End of the Line.”

February 2008 Taryn Reneau EP, "Cut to My Soul" is completed.

December 2007
Perform piano tracks on upcoming album from artist Ruby James.

November 2007
Sign on to score new documentary film from award-winning writer/director Barry W. Blaustein.

September 2007
Begin producing tracks with Rick Garcia for an upcoming audio-book and CD project developed by author and songwriter Markus Williams. Vocalists include Billy Valentine, Taryn Reneau, and Pam and Joyce Vincent.

August 2007
Begin part-time faculty position at California State Northridge, teaching Music in Film course.

June 2007
Scoring additional music for upcoming world-wide release of feature, "Crusade: a March Through Time" starring Emily Watson. It it a terrific experience working with executive producer Tim Disney, music editor and supervisor Jennifer Nash, and multi-instrumentalists Craig Eastman and Susan Winsberg.

Arranging and recording tracks for Liela Avila in preparation for her appearance at the Montreaux jazz festival.

May 2007
License three songs co-written with Rick Garcia for upcoming feature, "Bangkok Dangerous" starring Nicholas Cage; working with music supervisor Gina Amador.

Songs feature vocalist Belinda Kazanci. Release scheduled for February 2008.

February 2007 "Self is a Sea" is chosen as the winner of the Joe Shepley Choral Competition in conjunction with the Namaste Women's Choir. The piece is slated for premiere on June 24, 2007, under the direction of Diane Rose.

Begin producing 2 new songs for artist Taryn Reneau.

January 2007 Arranging and producing strings for John Durrill's song, "Nature of Things."

Composing new piece for THE PROPHET project entitled "Self is a Sea," scored for women's choir with piano.

December 2006 Glendale College Concert Singers under the direction of Dr. Peter Green perform "Hope of Glory" as part of their annual holiday program.

Producing next track for artist beatriZ Martos entitled "Renacimiento."
November 2006

producing the strings for the CD of new musical from composer Kirby Shaw entitled "Scroogical."

October 2006
Recording and co-producing with artists AM and Rick Garcia (of Green Car Motel) for both film and album projects.

mixing original score for "Uncle Adolf" documentary

arranging and producing strings and rhythm section for new song from writer and former Ventures member John Durrill. John has written for Cher, Reba Mcintire and Sinatra, among many more.

September 2006
Scoring documentary film about Adolf Hitler's family; score will feature string quartet.

Finishing second choral piece adapted from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet enititled "You Shall See Him" for mixed chorus, chamber ensemble and vocal solo.

Performing with Rene Reyes:
The Joint
Fri. 9/22 8pm

August 2006
Co-wrote and recorded song for "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the Beginning" with Rene Reyes; co-produced with John Avila and Jennifer Nash.

Performing/conducting the final performances of hit musical BARK! :
Coast Playhouse
8325 Santa Monica Blvd. West Hollywood
8/5, 8/12 8pm
8/6, 8/13 7pm

July 2006
Arranging and co-producing with Rick Garcia: artist beatriZ Martos "No Vuelve Mas."

Arranging and co-producing with Rene Reyes: artist Heather Nichole "Heartache Hotel."

Performing with rock artist Rene Reyes:
Molly Malone's
Fri. 7/28 8pm

Performing with artist Jennifer Nash:
UCLA
Mon. 7/3 10pm

June 2006
Vocal ensemble Caritas Voce performs "The Hope of Glory"
Sun. 7/18 4pm
St. Mark's Episcopal
1020 N. Brand Blvd. Glendale

 

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