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, 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, 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(orchestrator) Emmy Award!

• PBS American Experience: Edison's Miracle of Light, 1994, PBS (orch., copyist)

• Duckman, Paramount, 1994, (saxophone, orchestrator)

• Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish, 1999, Warner Bros. (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)

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.

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