Mitch Coodley has scored and provided music for the broadcast, non-broadcast, post-production, and online community since the 1980’s. Entertainment, news, sports, fashion, features, documentaries.
From PBS “Nova” and The New York Rangers, to Victoria’s Secret commercials, “The Sopranos” cues, WCBS News Packages and “Late Night With David Letterman” promos, Mitch’s music elevates.
HIS MISSION
“I approach every scoring project as I would a film score. There is a story to tell and an audience to reach and move. Music is the unseen driver of emotion, mood, energy and motivation”
“Mitch has scored most of my short and full-length documentaries, programs and promos. I call his music “my secret weapon.” It works its magic long after my work is done.”
BIO:
Mitch’s long career has led him toward projects that mean something to him and to producers and directors who value the depth and richness that music brings to visual media. His original music for conservation work is all about heart. It illustrates worldwide conservation efforts by emotionally connecting us to the future of wildlife on the planet. His sports work, on the other hand, is all about energy, mood, story and engagement. How to draw in an audience and keep them fired up? What’s the story with this athlete, this team, this competition, this struggle?
His work for Nova and Nature Needs Half seeks to reach us emotionally in a way that will inspire us to become involved in conservation. His scores for the New York Rangers are a bit different: get the crowd as fired up as possible for their home games at Madison Sq. Garden. And yet, the common thread is the person - the single audience member - who reacts with their heart and their gut. The score he composed for the opening tease for The Masters on CBS several years ago was compelling enough to earn the director an Emmy for the segment.
His scoring credits also include commercials: Victoria’s Secret, Ralph Lauren, Givenchy, Schick, Tommy Hilfiger, promos: Late Night with David Letterman, ESPN, ABC Sports, and news packages for WCBS, plus hundreds of original tracks licensed for HBO and CBS prime-time shows. He has also scored corporate videos for almost every industry from financial to retail, home-spun to high-tech.
For over 30 years he has composed and produced a large catalog of unscripted work available for licensing for any medium. His previous company, Metro Music Productions, boasted over 100 albums featured across the network and cable TV universe. Note the Wikipedia entry for his “Earth, Wind, Water,” which haunted audiences on The Sopranos for HBO.
Since selling Metro Music and its catalog, he has created a new boutique catalog of production music, The Buzz Music Library, which he populates with his favorite genres and the work of some extremely talented composers as well. Mitch still includes his stellar guitar work on his projects.
A summa cum laude graduate of Berklee College of Music, where Mitch studied composition with Mike Gibbs, Herb Pomeroy and John Bavicchi, he began his career as guitarist, working with Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Donald Byrd, Jerry Bergonzi, Ben E. King and Cyndi Lauper. He currently leads clinics, workshops, and master classes on the art of music production.
His hobbies include cooking, travel, stone carving, golf, politics, hiking, reading and guitar playing.