PAUL S. GLASS

Seven-time Emmy Award winning Music Supervisor/Composer Paul Glass began his career at ABC in 1991, as a part-time music director on the daytime drama LOVING. A year later, Glass was brought onto ONE LIFE TO LIVE to support a new post-production structure and in 1996, was named Music Director of OLTL, where he is responsible for all aspects of music: composing and producing original underscore and music supervision (over 1,000 source placements per year).

Under Glass’ direction OLTL won it’s first EMMY for Music Direction and Composition in 2000. The show also won EMMYs that year for Best Original Song and Sound Mixing for a Drama Series. Since then Glass has won subsequent EMMYs for Music Direction and Composition, as well as composer for Best Original Song (2007), Sound Mixing (2000, 2001) and for Best Directing for Drama Series (2007). In the last 8 years, Glass has over 10 Emmy nominations in the Music Direction and Original Song categories and has also won 3 DGA Awards and 3 BMI TV Music Awards.

During this same period, OLTL has done several landmark musical episodes, including the 2007 four-part PROM NIGHT: the musical. Along with Executive Producer Frank Valentini, this endeavor featured 14 original songs programmed and produced by Glass. The musical garnered 2 EMMYs for Original Song, 1 co-composed by Glass and the soundtrack rose to #4 on ITUNES soundtrack top sales, the week following the broadcast. The cast of the musical also performed live on The View and the critically acclaimed musical became a part of OLTL’s show history.

In 2005 Glass produced a cast album of original and cover songs called ONE LIFE MANY VOICES to raise money during the post-Katrina recovery. The proceeds from this foundation continue to nurture the efforts in New Orleans today. During that same year, Glass was featured in the Schirmer publication MUSIC SUPERVISON: The Complete Guide by Ramsay Adams, David Hnatiuk and David Weiss.

Through solid industry contacts and strong production, Paul Glass has made OLTL a destination for music’s top performers which have included MARY J. BLIGE (2 times), NELLY FURTADO, LIFEHOUSE, SNOOP DOGG, SIMPLY RED, ERYKAH BADU, LIONEL RICHIE, TIMBALAND, KERI HILSON, ONE REPUBLIC, PUSSYCAT DOLLS, PLAIN WHITE Ts, RACHAEL YAMAGATA and CHRIS BOTTI, among others.

Paul Glass has a BM in Composition from Berklee College of Music and an AAS in Jazz Performance from Five Towns College. Besides his work at ABC, Glass worked in the Program Department of Columbia Artists Management, coordinating the programs and notation for such great artists as Maurizio Pollini, Alicia de Larrocha, Marilyn Horne, Frederica von Stade, Dawn Upshaw, Jorge Bolet and countless others. Glass also composed the score for the 1998 award winning short film THE FLOYS OF NEIGHBORLY LANE. In 2009, Paul Glass was presented with the Limavady Council Plaque in Feeny, Northern Ireland for his composition HAMPSON FIELDS OF FEENY.