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Mark Watters is a five-time Emmy Award winner whose diverse composing credits include Doug's First Movie, Kronk’s New Groove, Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas, The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves for Disney, The Pebble and the Penguin and All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 for MGM, as well as over 300 episodes of various television series, including The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Tiny Toon Adventures, The New Pink Panther, All Dogs Go to Heaven, 101 Dalmatians and NBC’s A Very Muppet Christmas. In 1996, Watters served as music director for the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Direction and a nomination for the song “Faster, Higher, Stronger,” performed by opera legend Jessye Norman and co-written with lyricist Lorraine Feather. He returned to the Olympic podium again as music director for the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games, where he had the honor of working with the acclaimed Utah Symphony and the Grammy Award-winning Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Again, he was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Direction. Other credits include his Emmy award-winning score to Disney’s nature documentary series, True Life Adventures. His recent credits include the TV movies Meet the Santas, starring Steve Guttenberg and Crystal Bernard, and The Long Shot, starring Julie Benz and Marsha Mason.
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Ian Fraser came to New York from England in 1962 to conduct the Broadway musical Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, and moved to Los Angeles in 1966 to work on the musical film Doctor Dolittle. From 29 nominations, he has received 11 Primetime Emmy Awards for Music Direction. He conducted the music for many of the ATAS Hall of Fame programs, as well as the1984, 1993 and 2002 Emmy Awards. He received a 1970 Oscar nomination for Scrooge, and conducted the 1984 Oscar telecast. Fraser made his debut as a guest conductor with the Boston Pops in 1992. After recording two Grammy-nominated Broadway albums with Julie Andrews, he returned to Broadway to conduct Victor/Victoria for her. In July he will conduct two concerts at the Hollywood Bowl with Ms. Andrews, which will include the symphonic premiere of her children’s musical Simeon’s Gift, for which he composed the music. Now completing his eighth term as a Television Academy governor, he is also past president of the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers.
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