Charley Raiff

I'm a composer, songwriter, and producer in New York. I write musicals, score for film and TV, and run Tuner — my label and studio in Williamsburg, where I make records with artists, score for brands and directors, and (once in a while) get hired to write the music for a nicotine gum commercial.

My path here has been anything but conventional. Piano as a kid, conducting along to Leonard Bernstein in my parents' living room before I really knew how to play. Months-long apprenticeships with Stew (Passing Strange, The Total Bent) and Nick Littlemore (Empire of the Sun, Pnau). Piano lessons from Taylor Eigsti, George Cables, and Jason Moran. A Bachelor's from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, after a transfer from Berklee. The rest I picked up making records and playing shows — which, honestly, has always been the part that stuck.