Dennis Dreith

Dennis Dreith began his career as an active session and touring musician working with The Beach Boys, Leon Russell, Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Osmond Bros. As is a film compose he has written music for the Feature Film The Punisher, the television series Columbo, and the animated series Scooby Doo. He is a Record Producer (O'Jays, Tokens, Grover Washington Jr., Ellis Hall, Sharaya J.), Orchestrator/Conductor working with John Williams, James Horner, Lalo Shiffrin, Marc Shaiman, Hans Zimmer and others. Past International President of the Recording Musicians Association, former head of the Film Musicians Secondary Markets Fund and the AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund. He is a recognized authority on performance rights and a long-time advocate of musicians rights having lobbied Congress in support of Copyright reform and was instrumental in the passage of the Audio Home Recording Act. Dreith is currently the Chairman of Transparence Entertainment Group, and also remains an active record producer and Artist performing and recoding with his 21 piece jazz ensemble.