Lanny Meyers
Lanny Meyers is an American composer, orchestrator, principal arranger and musical director. He has composed the ballet The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Hunt of the Unique-Horn, film scores for the 1992 Sundance Award winning documentary Beirut: The Last Home Movie, New Line Cinema's The First Time, and many award-winning animated films for Buzzco Assoc. He arranged and orchestrated The Berenstain Bears Show TV series, and,, the cable TV series Remember WENN. He also composed and orchestrated The Mendocino Music Festival Overture, and created the score for the Psychosomatic Wellness CD by Dr. Candace Pert.
Awards and nominations
Primetime Emmy awards
- Won, 1982, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction for Night of 100 Stars
- Nominated, 1985, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction for Night of 100 Stars II
- Won, 1986, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction for The 40th Annual Tony Awards
- Nominated, 1987, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction for The 41st Annual Tony awards
- Nominated, 1988, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction for Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
- Nominated, 1991, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction for ''The 44th Annual Tony Awards''
Daytime Emmy awards
- Won, 1982, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for The Edge of Night TV series
- Won, 1982, Outstanding Individual Achievement, Scoring ABC Afterschool Special for "The Unforgivable Secret", Elliot Lawrence, composer
- Won, 1983, Outstanding Music Composition in Children's Programming, ABC Afterschool Special for "Sometimes I Dont Love My Mother" with Elliot Lawrence
- Won, 1995-96 Outstanding contributions to the Emmy Award winning Achievement for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for Guiding Light
- Nominated, 1999, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for ''Another World''
Other awards
- 5 CINE Golden Eagle Awards for scoring animated short films
- Artist-in-residence, Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, New Mexico
- New York State Council of the Arts
- Composer-in-residence, New York Electronic Workshop
- Graduate scholarship student of Lukas Foss and summer fellowship student at Brandeis University, Maryland.