Gust Tsilis
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
In 1986 Gust William Tsilis released his first recording. The CD
featured Arthur Blythe, Horacee Arnold and Anthony Cox. German stereo
review picked it as CD of the month in 1987 of August. Pale Fire gained
much critical acclaim throughout Europe. Mr. Tsilis has released 11
recordings as a leader and performed on over 25 recordings as a
sideman. The recordings have featured musicians such as John
Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Billy Hart, Tim Berne,Lindsey Horner,Anthony
Cox, Joey Baron, Herb Robertson, Jack Dejohnette, Dave Holland, Karl
Denson, Pee Wee Ellis, Pete Madsen, Arthur Blythe, Lonnie Plaxico, Uri
Caine, Cecil Brooks III, Terri Lynne Carrington, and more. Throughout
the 90's Mr. Tsilis spent most of his time developing and managing the
internationally acclaimed Jazz club Visiones. There he had the pleasure
of booking and working with artists... Ish Kabible, Joe Lovano, Roy
Haynes, Fred Hersch, Joe Locke, Maria Schnieder, Abraham Burton, Mose
allison, Chico Freeman and many others. His motivation for keeping this
venue together was solely to help musicians to stay in the public's eye
or to become more exposed to the listening audience. As an artist and
repretoire representative for enja records Mr. Tsilis had the honor of
assisting Matthias Winklemann in signing and recording artists for his
legendary enja records label. "Matthias has provided a chance for so
many creative musicians to be heard throughout the world. His devotion
to music is historical, in that he created so much for the righteous
purpose of giving the gift of music, to music lovers throughout the
world ". The singer Kevin Mahogany was scouted and produced by Mr.
Tsilis and went on to sell many CD's for enja records. Mr. Tsilis had
the pleasure of producing over 50 CD's in the Jazz genre, with many of
todays finest musicians. Mr. Tsilis worked for Ken music, a label from
Japan which recorded over 30 CD's in one year. As the spirit behind
Visiones he learned much about the business of music. Now in Los
Angeles, Mr. Tsilis has been composing music for film, and Orchestra.
He is well versed as a drummer, mallet player, pianist and guitarist.
He has composed music for Jazz, songs with lyrics, Orchestral music,
music for short films and feature films. Music for piano and many other
ensemble configurations. Mr. Tsilis has the pleasure of studying
orchestration with Composer Gernot Wolfgang. Mr. Wolfgang has composed
and orchestrated for numerous films. Mr. Wolfgang also composes concert
music which is performed throughout the world.