Audio By The Bay and Forward Thinking teams, plus colleagues and friends in Orlando celebrating the THEA Awards. We are grateful to Universal for having us on this project and all the collaborators that brought this to life. Honored to win awards for How To Train Your Dragon, Isle of Berk and Universal’s Epic Universe!!!
The USJ 25th Anniversary Parade has officially opened! Amazing to think ABTB did the first parade there (Hollywood Premiere Parade) and most of them in between. Thank you to all the talented folks that worked with us on this parade. Shout out to Randy Wojcik for his creative vision and leadership, Sherilyn Draper for her amazing directing and ABTB’s Joe Pileggi for his incredible parade mix! We are grateful for the 25 years of creating music and soundtracks for USJ! On a side note our favorite restaurant Kantipur closed a couple of weeks after we’re were there. I have gone to this restaurant for 25 years. We did get a couple of dinners in and one last beer walk before we left iykyk!
Well this happened! Audio By The Bay is honored to have been part of this creative team for Universal Beijing Resort. Lead by Jason Ramsburg and Chris Clark, Show Direction by John Rowe. Music Production by ABTB/ Bob Wackerman and Joe Pileggi, Recorded and Mixed by Joe Pileggi, Arranged and Orchestrated by Jon Kubis and Vocal Arrangements by Fletcher Sheridan. Always fun to be recognized for your work while having a great time doing it with an amazing team! Congrats to all!
Beautiful concert celebrating the amazing life of Gordon Goodwin. So nice to see many of his friends and the music community come together to honor him.
Thought I would share a snippet of this year's Paramount Tree Lighting/holiday celebration. This year's theme honored all those affected by the LA fires. In a special moment, LAFD first responder Dennis Rodriguez sang "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas".
Sincere thanks to the team for having Audio By The Bay/Joe Pileggi and myself produce the music again this year and to those that contributed their talents:
Cindy Carter, our Paramount VP boss and amazing leader
Mike Davis, Co-Creative Director
Todd Schroeder, Co-Creative Director and Music/Vocal Arranger
Jon Kubis, Orchestrations, Synth programming, piano and guitar
Chad Wackerman, Drums
Bob Wackerman, Bass
And the amazing cast singers
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Found this video online from a USJ super fan...
Very proud of my wife Melissa who composed and wrote the music and lyrics of this song for the new Universal Studios Japan, Light Up the Night Christmas Show. The song is called "The Candle's Light" and it creates our heartfelt moment near the end of the show.
Big thanks to the Creative Team...
Randy Wojcik, VP Entertainment Creative, Universal Studios Japan
Sherilyn Draper, Creative/Show Director
Jon Kubis, Arranger and Orchestrations
Fletcher Sheridan, Vocal Arranger
Joe Pileggi and myself, Music Producers for Audio By The Bay
All the LA Musicians and Singers that brought this show to life.
And the live cast in Osaka that works so hard to put on a great show night after night in Osaka!
Bravo to all!! What a fun project and team!
Enjoy and Happy Holidays!
