Brian D. Siewert

Biography

Brian D. Siewert, alternatively credited with or without his middle initial, is an American public speaker, multiple Emmy Award-winning concert and television composer, producer, songwriter, musician, arranger and visual artist. He has worked on The Guiding Light (1996–2009) as Principal Composer/Songwriter, As the World Turns (1995-2010) as Principal Composer/Songwriter and Supervising Music Producer, General Hospital - ABC (TV Series), The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003), Another World (1995-1999),The Tyra Banks Show Syndicated, The Dr. Oz Show Syndicated, Sunset Beach (1997-1998), Extra, Access Hollywood, Street Smarts, elimiDATE, Celebrity Justice, The Sharon Osbourne Show, and The Real Gilligan's Island. Siewert is the recipient of both ASCAP and BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) awards for his work in Film/TV Music.

He toured with country music singer Wynonna Judd as her keyboardist for several hundred arena and amphitheater shows during the "Tell Me Wy" and "Black & Wy" tours (1992-1994). As a keyboardist, producer, arranger, conductor and studio musician, Siewert has contributed to albums by Rascal Flatts, Band, Trace Adkins, Ronnie Milsap, Barbara Mandrell, Steve Green (singer), Martin Taylor (guitarist), Jim Brickman, John Rich, Rebecca Lynn Howard and Wade Hayes. In 2012, he was nominated for a Dove Award for producing the album Christmas Hope for recording artist Ben Utecht.

In 2007, Siewert established the "Brian D. Siewert Artist In Motion" Scholarship at his alma mater Lakeshore High School in Stevensville, MI where he was the 2008 recipient of their Distinguished Alumni Award. The annual scholarship grants a college scholarship to a graduating senior in the field of any/all arts. Allendale (MI) Public Schools (Allendale High School) commissioned Siewert in 2011 to compose what is now the school's official alma mater "Oh Allendale."

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