Jay Weigel
Biography
Jay Weigel is a Grammy–winning composer, producer, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, and contractor for film, television, recordings, and concerts. From 1998 to 2001, he worked as an orchestrator, assistant conductor, and head music preparatory for composer Terence Blanchard. From 1985 to 1991 he was lecturer of Composition and Orchestration at Xavier University in New Orleans. Weigel helped organize the Louisiana Composers Guild, and served as the co-chairman of the Louisiana Music Commission from 1998 to 2004. Weigel served as executive director of the Contemporary Arts Center, CAC, in New Orleans from 1996 to 2013. Prior to this appointment, Weigel was music director of the CAC for eleven years. Since 2013, Weigel has returned to composing full-time, and is constantly in-demand as a New Orleans–based composer.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
207 releases · 17 albums · active 1985–2024
- Performance · 145
- Other credits · 98
- Engineering · 8
- Production · 7
Studios: Bearsville Studios · Paisley Park Studios · Soundscape Studios · John Keane Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- R.E.M.
- Tank and the Bangas
- Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
- Lou Reed
- Mark Bingham
- John Delafose And The Eunice Playboys
- Boozoo Chavis And The Magic Sounds