Brett Swain

Beginning his musical journey at the world renowned Record One studios, Brett Swain trained under legendary recording engineer and Grammy winning producer Val Garay, cutting his teeth on projects with the likes of Neil Diamond, Dolly Parton, Warren Zevon, Lita Ford and Don Henley. Segueing to full time recording engineer at The Complex recording studios, he then collaborated with such award winning producers and engineers as George Massenburg and Greg Ladanyi. Brett worked with a diverse roster of talent including Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, The Simpsons, Richie Sambora, Taylor Dane, Vonda Shepard and Andrew Dice Klay. Following this period, Buddy Brundo and Rose Mann-Cherney at Conway Recording Studios brought Brett in as an engineer on numerous projects from The YellowJackets, Bob Seger, Ringo Starr, Jan Arden, Aaron Neville, Emerson Lake and Palmer and Exposé. Here, he finally gained entrée into the film world with his work on Cry Baby as well as Arif Mardin's and Bette Midler's For The Boys. Next, as house engineer at O'Henry Studios, Swain was on countless albums but also found that his interest in film and television music was blossoming. In addition to working on albums for Prince, Herbie Hancock, Caifanes, Andraé Crouch and Crosby, Stills and Nash, he engineered on such films as Mortal Combat, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, That Thing You Do; and on television's Matlock, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Simpsons and Lost. Brett's work at O'Henry, garnered the attention of a Walt Disney company executive who invited him to be a music supervisor at the studio. He leapt at the opportunity and spent over 16 years at the Walt Disney company as Director of Music production. During his time at Disney he was also promoted to Vice President of the Music, Casting and Post Production divisions of DisneyToon studios working on over 50 animated productions. Brett loves the challenge of his position as it allows him to play a role in every facet of each film's music from managing the music budgets of multi-million dollar films, to identifying song moments at the script stage. Plus, he's surrounded by music all day long and gets to hire the songwriters, singers and composers, booking musicians in some of the very studios where he began his career. When not at work, Brett shares his love of music with his wife and two kids at their home in Los Angeles.