Professional Career
1981 - present
Travers Huff is a freelance featured jazz pianist in Los Angeles including Hotel Bel Air, Peninsula Hotel, Bistro Garden and Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Wilshire, Four Seasons , and various other venues.
Travers has played for Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, Michael Mann, Sharon Stone, Rod Stewart, Mike Nichols, Marlon Brando, Billy Joel, George Hamilton, Lily Tomlin, Phyllis Diller, Al Pacino, Angelina Jolie, Paul McCartney, Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher, Harry Morgan, Ray Bradbury, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tony Danza, Sylvester
Stallone, John Lithgow, and Niki Dantine.
Organist, 1st Church of Christian Science, Westchester, CA
Solo Commercial Recordings (piano)
Web of Dreams (piano/synth) 2005
Seems Like Old Times 2000
The Gershwin I Love 1998
Television 1983 - 1989
Assistant to John Davis, Music Director on T. J. Hooker
Project Musician for sitcoms Mr. Belvedere, Family Ties, and Take Five; commercial; Find Magazine (Philadelphia)
Film Scoring
Composed orchestrated, and conducted Main Title theme for PBS TV Series Those Fabulous Philadelphians: The Philadelphia Orchestra 1980
Scored music for film Echoes of Our Past, docudrama of American revolution produced by Bell Telephone 1976
Classical
Composed Cantata for Peace produced by Elaine Brown and Singing City Choirs with members of Philadelphia Orchestra 1974
Pop:
Studio arranger/conductor Sigma Sound Studios 1976 -1980 for
WMOT Productions arranger various artists including: Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes; instrumental arranger for Don Renaldo, his strings and horns, backing Teddy Pendergrass, The O=Jays, Major Harris, Charo, etc. Keyboards on over 100 recording sessions for various groups including Blue Magic
Songwriting partner with Len Barry (1,2,3) for various artists;
Writer radio jingle Find Magazine 1978
Writer pop instrumental The Flirt, published E. B. Marks, New York, NY 1976
Teaching (non-private) 1969 - 1976
Instructor of Music and Music Appreciation, School District of Philadelphia;
Delaware County Community College, Media, PA; Philadelphia Community College;
Settlement Music School, Philadelphia, PA;
Director, Delaware County College Orchestra
Jazz
Two tours with celebrated jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Dayton, Ohio 1974 -1976
Formal Education
Florence, Italy, seminar with Luigi Dallapiccola 1967
Electronic Music, seminar with Robert Moog 1967
Post-Graduate Study Royal College of Music, London England, Royal College Summer School, summer of 1967, seminars in contemporary music with Michel DeCoust, Pierre Marietan, and Hans Keller
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, 1967 Master of Music (Comp.) Piano study: Eugene List
Eastman School of Music: Graduate teaching assistantship: Music Theory (ear-training 1967)
Student Works: Theme and Variations for Orchestra; Slow Dance for Orchestra; Three Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca for Soprano and Orchestra
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 1965 Bachelor of Musicteaching certification
Stan Kenton Summer Music School for Jazz Studies, University of Nevada 1962 (Study with Johnny Richards)
Graduate Moscow High School, Moscow Idaho 1961
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