Hummie Mann

Composer/arranger Hummie Mann has collaborated with some of Hollywood's most celebrated directors. His feature film scores have ranged from Mel Brooks' “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” and “Dracula: Dead & Loving It” to Peter Yates' “Year of the Comet.” He also scored the children’s film “Thomas and the Magic Railroad”, “Wooly Boys” starring Peter Fonda and Kris Kristofferson and the IMAX digital animated film “Cyberworld 3D”. For television, he has scored projects for Simon Wincer (the miniseries “P.T. Barnum”), Jonathan Kaplan (the miniseries re-make of “In Cold Blood”), Norman Jewison (“Picture Windows – Soir Bleu”), Peter Bogdanovich (“The Rescuers: Tales of Courage - Two Women”), Joe Dante (“Masters of Horror: Homecoming” & “The Screwfly Solution”), Jim Abrahams (“First Do No Harm”) and Richard Friedenberg (“Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas”). He was awarded his first Emmy for arranging Billy Crystal's 1992 Oscar opening number and a second Emmy for his original score to an episode of Showtime's Picture Windows series entitled “Language of the Heart.” He has also been honored with a Distinguished Alumnus Award from his under graduate alma mater Berklee College of Music. He is the creator and lead instructor of the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program (currently the music department of the Seattle Film Institute) and has taught film composition courses in Scotland and Denmark. After numerous guest lecture visits to China and being invited to participate on a film scoring panel at the 2nd Beijing International Film Festival, he was invited to join the De Tao Masters organization and has made multiple trips to Shanghai and Beijing to teach workshops and give guest lectures. In May 2010 he was invited to lead a film composition workshop at the Dakhla Film Festival in Morocco and Variety Magazine listed him as a “Leader in Learning” in it’s 2010 Education Impact Report. Hummie divides his time between Los Angeles, California and Mercer Island, Washington.