Lisa Maxwell is a composer, arranger, orchestrater, producer, conductor, and performer.

Her most recent recording project, “Shiny! Lisa Maxwell’s Jazz Orchestra” received a 4 star review by DownBeat Magazine. She has been part of the Emmy Award-winning music team for Warner Bros., an orchestrator on all 52 episodes of Histeria! and Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish. She’s a New York City featured composer at the Summer in the Square Concert Series, an orchestrator for PBS American Experience and a Netflix and Paramount+ contributor. See full credit list below.

As a sax player, Lisa not only led the horn sections on tour with Guns 'n' Roses and Spinal Tap but has also played with Bruce Willis, Steven Tyler, Lenny Kravitz, Carole King, Band, Machito Big Band, Gil Evans Orchestra, Charlie Haden, Hiram Bullock, Will Lee, Chuck Berry, Smokey Hormel, The Joni Mitchell Project, Fox TV's "Sibs" and "Phenom" live studio bands, "Duckman" cartoon, the MTV Awards, and the National Association of Songwriters Awards shows.

TV / Movies (Composer, Licensed Music, Orchestrator)

BMF, STARZ - 2023 "Family Business"
Making Fun, Netflix - 2022 "Pirate Pizza Cannon"
The Stand, Paramount+ - 2021 "The Stand'
El Club (The Club), Netflix - 2020 "Mami TUmba La Casa (Mmam Said Knock You)
Tirdy Works, truTV - 2020 (4 Episodes)
Buck Commander, Outdoor Channel - 2020 "From Ducks To Bucks"
Four Weddings: Top 10 Weddings, TLC - 2019 "...And A Grilled Cheese"
Talk Show the Game Show, truTV - 2018 "Andy Richter Sasheer Zapata Nadia G LCI"
Strangers in Danger, Fuel TV - 2017 "Jamica"
Person of Interest, CBS TV - 2015 "Panopticon"
The Following, Warner Bros. TV - 2015 "Exposed"
Buck Commander, Outdoor Channel - 2015 "Of Bulls and Men"
Rectify, Sundance TV - 2014 "Heart of Hearts"
Four Weddings, TLC - 2014 "...And A Grilled Cheese"
Four Weddings, TLC - 2013 "...And A Phantom"
Four Weddings: Unveiled, TLC 2013 (2 Episodes)
Four Houses, TLC 2013 "...And A Hot Pink Bedroom
Dexter, Showtime - 2012 "Smokey and the Bandit"
On the Fly, TLC - 2012 "I Give You A Disclaimer - I Curse!"
Ice Brigade, Food Network - 2012 "DJ Bronco"
Four Weddings, TLC - 2012 (3 Episodes)
Four Weddings, TLC - 2011 (5 Episodes)
Extreme Royal Collections, Demand Media - 2011 DVD
Four Weddings Biggest Blunders, TLC - 2011
Sons of Anarchy, FX Network - 2010 "Na Triobloidi"
Burn Notice, USA -2010 "Past and Future Tense"
Gravity, STARZ - 2010 (3 Episodes)
Stuffocating, TLC - 2010 (Pilot)
Four Weddings, TLC - 2010 (4 Episodes)
Histeria!, Warner Bros Television - All episodes: #1-55 (orchestrator) Emmy Award!
PBS American Experience: Edison's Miracle of Light, 1994, PBS Television (orch., copyist)
Duckman Cartoon, Paramount Network Television, 1994, (saxophone, orchestrator)
Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish, 1999, Warner Bros. Ent. (orchestrator)

Other

Summer in the Square Concerts, Union Square, NYC, Featured Composer
Histeria!, Warner Bros., Best Musical Direction in a Daytime Show Emmy Award!
Animaniacs, Warner Bros., Best Musical Direction in a Daytime Show Emmy Award!
Sugarbeats: 21 Really Cool Songs, 1994, (co-producer, saxophone, orchestrator)
Believe in Me, Duff McKagan, 1993, Geffen Records"Could It Be U" (string arranger)
Bayless Meets Bernstein: West Side Story Variations, John Bayless, 1992, Columbia Records (orchestrator, copyist)
Guns 'n' Roses Use Your Illusion World Tour, 1991-93 (horn section leader, arranger)
The Joni Mitchell Project, L.A. Theater Center (saxophones, synthesizer)
Sugarbeats: 21 Really Cool Songs (co-producer, saxophone)
Education
SUNY Empire State, B.A. Jazz Composition
Berklee College of Music, Quincy Jones Arranging Scholarship
Dick Grove School of Music, Composing and Arranging Program
Manhattan School of Music - Joe Allard, saxophone
UCLA film scoring - Don Ray, composing

Affiliations

Musician’s Union Local 47, American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers.