ELLIOT SOKOLOV
WHO??
- Elliot Sokolov is a composer and producer whose work spans the worlds of concert music, dance, theater, and film and television scores. He is probably best known for his work on Sesame Street, where he scored more than one hundred animations created by renowned animator Al Jarnow. Perhaps his most widely performed concert piece is "Pipedreams for Organ and Alto Saxophone," which was originally recorded by the late N.Y. Philharmonic organist Leonard Raver and has been performed throughout the US and Europe. Elliot Sokolov holds a Master’s degree in composition from Columbia University, and has received a Composer Fellowship from the US National Endowment for the Arts. He has collaborated on several musicals and an opera, and has composed numerous scores for television, film, dance, theater, and national television advertising.
- Elliot is also a composer, producer and musician of popular music. Elliot’s record See the Light Feel the Heat (a collaboration with Jack Waldman, as Air Force 1) was mixed by Arthur Baker and released on Streetwise Records in 1984 and became a hip-hop-electro classic; He was a member of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop in NYC for many years and has composed several musicals; He composed music for many theater and dance productions at Open Eye Theater in NYC and Margaretville, NY; played guitar in Eartha Kitt’s touring band; was part of the original band for the first off-off Broadway production of the musical Little Shop of Horrors; was a composer, co-producer, and musician in the original Ray Contreras Band, as well as several other rock and R&B bands.
- Elliot continues to be busy with various music projects.