David Loeb is an American pianist, conductor, musical director, composer, arranger, orchestrator, music producer and music educator. He performed as a jazz pianist with Arturo Sandoval, Nancy Wilson, Tom Harrell, Joe Williams, Freddie Hubbard, Anita O’Day, Vincent Herring, Bill Watrous, Tom Scott, Bobby Shew, Joel Frahm, Karrin Allyson, Paul Horn, Bob Sheppard, Natalie Cole, Joe Farrell, Billy Hart, Pepper Adams, Peter Erskine, Ray Brown, Bob Mintzer, Joe Locke and many others. As a session pianist in Los Angeles recording studios, Loeb played for more than 45 syndicated television shows including Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, Hill Street Blues, Quantum Leap and The Emmy Awards and 40 movie scores including Ted, The Birdcage, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Academy Award-winning score for Pocahontas, composed by Alan Menken. He was principal keyboardist with The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra for a decade and accompanied musical artists including Andrea Bocelli, Audra McDonald, Gil Shaham, David Foster, Patti LuPone, Placido Domingo, Jewel, James Galway, Kristin Chenoweth, Joshua Bell, Jessye Norman and Quincy Jones. Loeb performed on movie scores, television soundtracks or recordings for Bette Midler, Herbie Hancock, Robin Williams, Norah Jones, Jim Carey, Jennifer Holiday, Curtis Mayfield, Carl Anderson, Bonnie Raitt, Mike Post, Walter Murphy, W.G Snuffy Walden, Smokey Robinson, Patti LaBelle, Jerry Lewis, Whitney Houston, Drew Carey, Kenny Loggins, Gladys Knight, Lou Rawls, Aaron Neville, Connie Francis, Wynton Marsalis, Randy Newman, Manhattan Transfer, Regina Belle, Michael McDonald, Dionne Warwick and many others. He was pianist with Questlove, Ben Wendel, Angela Brown and other musical artists on the Grammy Award-winning recording, Ask Your Mama, composed by Laura Karpman, and musical director, conductor and pianist for Tony Award-winning entertainer Ben Vereen, with many notable ensembles including The National Symphony Orchestra, Dallas, Hartford, Edmunton, North Carolina, Atlanta, Spokane, Omaha, BBC and New Orleans orchestras, and for Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater with The Philadelphia Orchestra for The Marion Anderson Awards honoring Danny Glover.

 

At the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, Loeb was conductor and co-musical director for the CBS television special, Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Concert, with Tony Bennett, Celine Dion, Harry Connick, Jr., Katharine McPhee, Garth Brooks, Alicia Keys, Seth MacFarlane, Nick Jonas, Carrie Underwood, Usher, John Legend, Tricia Yearwood, Zach Brown, Juanes and Adam Levine, musical director and conductor for Twyla Tharp’s Sinatra Dance With Me and Steve Wynn’s Showstoppers and conductor for Lady Gaga’s concert appearance. In Las Vegas at The Smith Center, he performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue with the Las Vegas Philharmonic and was musical director, conductor and pianist for Larry Rosen’s Jazz Roots series with Clint Holmes, Kirk Whalum, Take 6 and Nnenna Freelon. Loeb orchestrated for George Benson, Miriam Makeba, Doc Severinsen and many others, arranged for television specials including The Academy Awards, Comic Relief, In Living Color and The American Music Awards and composed music for PBS television documentaries and Dolly Parton’s album, Rainbow, on Columbia Records.

 

Loeb is director of the Division of Jazz and Commercial Music and a professor of music in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Music. UNLV Jazz Studies students, under his direction, earned prestigious DownBeat Magazine Student Music Awards, performed at the acclaimed Monterey Jazz Festival, Midwest Clinic and Jazz Education Network Conference and garnered outstanding CD reviews from JazzTimes Magazine. Loeb received the distinguished Nevada System of Higher Education Regents' Creative Activity Award, is a respected Jazz scholar and was a featured panelist on the UNLV Black Mountain Institute lecture, Jazz; America’s Gift To The World, with Ellis Marsalis, Ishmael Reed and Marlena Shaw. Loeb is a lifetime member of Phi Kappa Phi and holds a master of music degree in jazz and contemporary media from the Eastman School of Music and a bachelor of science in music education from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.