Kevin Kliesch

Kevin Kliesch (born in October 15, 1970 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA) is an American Emmy-winning composer working in film and television who won his first Daytime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for his work on Sofia the First, after being nominated for the second consecutive year.

Biography
He is born in October 15, 1970 in Teaneck, New Jersey, Kliesch where he became a graduate of, and former instructor at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Later he became a multi-instrumentalist, where he plays piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, French horn, and saxophone.

Kliesch has worked as a composer and orchestrator on over 100 feature films spanning the past seventeen years, including Frozen, The Hangover, Tangled and Shrek Forever After. He parlayed his success as an orchestrator to composing, where he has found success in the animation genre – receiving his first Annie Award nomination for his work on the Thundercats series in 2012. That year he earned two more nominations from BSO Spirit for their Jerry Goldsmith Awards in Best Television score (Thundercats) and Breakout Composer of the Year.

Having worked on many successful Disney properties as an orchestrator, Kliesch was given the opportunity to compose for the Disney Junior series Sofia the First. His work on the series would earn Kliesch his second Annie Award nomination as well as his first Daytime EMMY nomination. Kliesch’s recent composing projects also include DC Comics’ animated movies Superman: Unbound and Justice League: War, along with the Walt Disney short film Tangled Ever After.

Kliesch currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their seven-year-old twins.