“Gary Malkin’s mastery of nuance and poignancy in musically carrying critical insights straight to the heart is rare and extraordinary. Gary has been our secret weapon to help awaken people to the possibility of a thriving world for all.”
– Foster Gamble, Co-Creator, The Thrive Documentary Series
A Lifetime of Original Music Solutions for All Media
For forty years, Gary Malkin has been creating original music solutions for feature films, documentaries, television, and nearly a thousand commercials for world-class brands. Known for his high music production standards, he founded and stewarded the San Francisco Bay Area’s most successful music production company from 1980 to 2000.
Throughout his career, Gary has been known as the “go to” composer for socially responsible media projects that support the environment, children’s welfare, cancer research, and social justice. With his long-time music partner, Dan Alvarez Gary and his long-term music partner created the music for the Pachamama Alliance’s globally acclaimed “Awakening the Dreamer” symposium founded by Lynne and Bill Twist. Their soundtracks for the groundbreaking “Thrive” documentaries – created by Foster and Kimberly Gamble – have touched nearly 90 million people in 27 languages and garnered the Hollywood Music in Media Award in 2013. He and Alvarez just completed their soundtrack for the sequel, “Thrive: This is What It Takes,” released in the Fall of 2020. (To learn more about this remarkable new documentary by going to www.ThriveOn.com)
Gary founded Wisdom of the World Wellness to explore ways that music can support people’s desire to live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives. Through this new platform, Gary is dedicated to creating music that evokes deep emotions. His passion for scoring the spoken wisdom of the world’s visionaries and humanitarian leaders, as in the globally acclaimed CD GiftBook, “Graceful Passages” has established him as one of the world’s leading experts in composing music for spoken wisdom, created for deeper absorption and emotional impact.
Free Consultations for Your Next Media Project
Gary welcomes opportunities to discuss your upcoming media project for film, television, or internet media. Perhaps you’re interested in sharing your unique message – utilizing your own voice – to touch, move, and inspire your company culture, your community or for your own branded platform as an author or thought leader for the vast online world at large. Perhaps it’s time to produce a powerful Living Legacy of your own, reflecting your wisdom, or sharing your vision. what you’ve learned so far. Contact Gary to learn more about your options and ask how he might approach your project. (To read more about the Living Legacies projects, go here.
Feel free to contact Gary for a consultation about your next project by emailing [email protected] or calling us at (888)947 3662. Or go to our events page and set up a short free consultation on our scheduling app.
Video Gallery of Gary’s Media Scoring Projects
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“…Malkin’s music connects us to the deepest realms of the soul…”
– Thomas Moore, The Care of the Soul
GARY MALKIN
Multiple Emmy Award-Winning Composer and Producer
Seven-time Emmy Award-winning composer Gary Malkin has composed hundreds of award-winning national commercials, feature films, television shows and recordings since 1980. In addition to scoring a remarkable 14 seasons of NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries, Malkin has composed for numerous Movies of the Week and documentaries for HBO, NBC, CBS and PBS. His classic theme for Unsolved Mysteries has been given a new life on Netflix’s new iteration of the famous franchise. He has created scores for independent features such as MARIA’S LOVERS, (MGM), BREAKIN’, (MGM), THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD, (AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE) and RICOCHET RIVER, starring Kate Hudson, among others.
ACHEIVEMENTS
As a music producer of other artists, Malkin has worked in the studio as a producer or arranger with Bobby McFerrin, Tuck and Patti, Kenny Loggins, Bonnie Raitt, Mickey Hart, Beth Nielsen Chapman, David Grissman, Roy Rogers, Keith Carradine, Linda Tillery, and Rhiannon, among many others.
Malkin’s acclaimed instrumental recording, THE MUSIC OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS (Real Music), hit the Billboard charts, is part of Real Music’s National Parks Series, and through its sales, has donated over $100K to the beloved national park. Malkin’s awards include two CLIOS as well as the Grand Prize in the Best Music category at The New York Film Festival. Malkin has received seven Regional Emmys, six ASCAP Film and Television awards, a Cine Golden Eagle, and Grand Prize for the “Best in the West” advertising awards. His United Way campaign swept the ADDYS by winning the gold, silver, and bronze awards in the western region.
Malkin recently completed a dynamic score for a new documentary created for the author/visionary Lynne Twist’s organization, Pachamama Alliance, called “Awakening the Dreamer,” directed and written by Neal Rogin, and shown in environmental activism events nationwide. Malkin created an acclaimed film score for the controversial multi-faith feature documentary, RAISING THE ASHES, directed by Academy Award winning actor/director Michael O’Keefe and shown in film festivals internationally. He also won the coveted Peabody Award for his work on Wendy Hanamura’s award-winning documentary about the 442 Battalion of WWII, Honor Bound, produced for CBS.
Malkin is known for his socially responsible contributions to media projects that support themes of tolerance, the environment, health care and children’s welfare. He also created the soundtrack for an award-winning documentary about the founder of the world class destination spa, Rancho La Puerta, Edmund Szekeley, produced by Sarah Livia Brightwood.
Malkin won global acclaim for his groundbreaking book and CD set produced by Wisdom of the World Wellness, LLC, and published by New World Library, entitled Graceful Passages, now available online everywhere. Co-produced with healing music pioneer Michael Stillwater with his wife, Doris Laesser Stillwater, this work was created to offer a new way for people to traverse the major transitions of life. He has also created a celebrated contemplative media genre entitled WisdomFilms featured as “Islands of Inner Peace” on the worldwide cable channel, Gaia TV.
Gary is also an inspirational singer, performer, and producer of live events, who has created and/or performed in events for United Religions International, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Association of Global New Thought, Unity Earth’s Caravan of Unity 2020, and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Association. He was invited to co-create and produce the event commemorating 9/11 at the Washington National Cathedral in 2002. He was the Artistic Director for the ’04 and’06 Quest for Global Healing conferences, with Nobel Laureates such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in Bali, Indonesia.
In August, 2007, he produced a Middle East Peace Concert at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, featuring world class virtuosos representing all faiths and many nations of the region, to a capacity audience. He was also commissioned to create a multi-cultural composition for a traditional Chinese orchestra, which was performed by a Chinese American orchestra for the Beijing 2008 Olympics’ Countdown ceremonies. He was also tapped to create the theme package for TED Curator Chris Anderson’s international phenomenon, PANGEA DAY. He served two terms as a member of the San Francisco Chapter of the Board of Governors for NARAS, (the Grammy organization).
Gary has performed and spoken at conferences nationwide and internationally, on the subjects related to Arts in Healthcare, caregiver rejuvenation, Interfaith Spirituality, and the Music and End of Life Care. He presented at the Harvard Medical School’s Spirituality and Health Conference, where he shared his resources for professional health care providers entitled Care for the Journey: Sustaining the Heart of Healthcare. He was asked to co-write a chapter on the value of music for the end of life with Michael Stillwater for the Oxford University Press release, A Time for Listening and Caring. His viral video featuring Brother David Steindl-Rast, known as “the Godfather of the Gratefulness Movement,” created with award winning cinematographer, Louis Schwartzberg, has received over 30 million views on YouTube.
Most recently, Gary scored one of the most viewed documentaries in history: “Thrive: What on Earth Will It Take?” for which he received the Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Soundtrack for a feature documentary in 2013. He just completed the score for the sequel, “Thrive: This is What It Takes,” which is available online worldwide.
“A film composer doesn’t compose music for its own sake, but as a contribution towards a collaborative art form. Film composing doesn’t only require musical talent; it requires a talent for telling a story with music. This is what makes film scoring so unique.”
– – Alan Silvestri