Your teacher gives you the assignment to write a report on someone who does a profession you’re interested in. I receive many emails from people doing reports that need info and try to reply when I can.
This was just forwarded to me – a local child did this school report on me. Not all the info is accurate, but the flavor is all there. For the record, I’ve yet to see myself mentioned in any article where all the info was correct – but that’s the nature of the biz.
Thank you to the person that wrote this. I’m very honored.
REPORT ON A MUSIC PRODUCER
My report on a musical composer is on a man named Conrad Askland. He is from
He is a composer and arranger he also has his own recording studio and he also has a company he started it is called Road Records. He started his studio in 1989 and he has produced many albums for artist in his studio. And then they are sold out of his company Askland Technologies.
If you have ever called GTE and been put on hold you are listening to Mr. Asklands music. He composed classical orchestral music that is used by GTE for their hold music when customers call them. He also composes music for radio and television through a company called jinglemonkey.com
When Conrad was little his grandmother was a jazz pianist and his grandpa was a sax player and his father was an amateur opera singer. When he was in school he didn’t get along well with his peers and he found out that he loved music and that love would help him through school. When he was 8 he was in the Northwest boys Choir and he got to travel to
When he was 9 he started to play the piano. At the age of 10 he started the French horn he was enrolled in Honors Youth Orchestra. He took his French horn lessons from the 1st chair of the Seattle Symphony. At 12 he started playing the Bass Guitar. Conrad didn’t like being in High School and he graduated two years early with 4 honors including an academic scholarship. At 18 he played the piano for Nordstrom in
Mr. Askland still comes to