rob fetters, award-winning composer, presented 3rd flashpoint industry workshop on friday, december 14th
Rob Fetters is an award-winning composer who has recorded and produced music for over 100 ABC TV commercials, and dozens of pieces for shows on the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and PBS. He’s created original music for national advertising campaigns: among them Sea World, Totes, Airheads Candy, Starkist, Intel, Crest, Hasbro, US Bank, and Roto Rooter. He has also composed and produced numerous postproduction scores for corporate films and theatrical presentations, most notably for Proctor & Gamble and Sea World.
In his long career as a singer/songwriter and guitar player, he has recorded and produced albums for other artists and performed internationally in the legendary guitar-pop band The Bears along with avant-garde guitarist Adrian Belew, toured with the Cincinnati Pops under the baton of Erich Kunzel, and done session work with artists ranging from The Ohio Players and Nigerian Afro-Popster Baoku Moses to Spanish language children’s choirs and wild experiments combining legendary bluesman Big Joe Duskin with an operatic soprano.
He has won multiple awards in his hometown of Cincinnati (categories such as “Best Instrumentalist”, “Best Guitarist” “Best Songwriter”, “Album of the Year”) and with The Bears was inducted into the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards Hall Of Fame alongside such luminaries as Bootsy Collins, Rosemary Clooney, and Over The Rhine. Concurrently, his two solo albums and many recorded works with his trio psychodots have garnered a loving cult following in the Midwest and worldwide. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife and four children, and plans to start his own commercial composing business in February, 2008.
More information on Rob Fetters
TheBearsMusic.com - Band Website
Innerview.org - "Death of the Wrong Desires" by Anil Prasad
Guitarplayer.com - "Rob Fetters Tone Jones"
CDbaby.com - "Psychodots"
YouTube.com - "Studio 89"
YouTube.com - "Rob Fetters in the Studio"
