Piano: Gunnar Madsen
Violin: Irene Sazer (tracks 3, 6, 16)
Producer: Kent Sparling
Recording Engineer: Dann Michael Thompson
2nd Engineer: Judy Kirschner
Piano Technician: Mark Schecter
Mixed: Gunnar Madsen & Kent Sparling
Mastered: Myles Boisen (Headless Buddha, Oakland)
Art and design by Janet Boye Jenkins
Cover/landscape Photos by Rob Jenkins
Portrait photos by Tom Erikson, Gunnar Madsen, Kent Sparling
Recorded at Skywalker Sound

Gunnar Madsen

Gunnar Madsen (composer, piano) The grammy-nominated composer of Two Hands is also an accomplished singer, writer, filmmaker and actor. He is well known as the co-founder and songwriter/performer with the legendary acapella group The Bobs. His solo efforts have yielded critically acclaimed albums across dramatically different genres. He has received commissions from Lincoln Center, the Los Angeles Theater Center, the Minnesota Opera, Oberlin Dance Collective, ISO Dance Theater, National Public Radio and many others. He is a featured performer on the soundtrack of "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," in the National Geographic Special "Asteroids: Deadly Impact," and is the emotionally charged voice of Sammy Davis, Jr. in the Emmy-award winning HBO film, "The Rat Pack." He arranged music for and appears in the Jennifer Aniston/Vince Vaughn hit "The Break-up", and the music from his Spinning World CD has been featured in many episodes of "Sex and the City" and in the Marisa Tomei film "Just a Kiss."

Gunnar's stage musical based on the outsider group The Shaggs (with collaborator Joy Gregory) has been produced in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York to thunderous critical and popular acclaim. It set new box office records and won Best Original Score from Entertainment Today (beating out Mel Brooks' The Producers), and won 6 Garland Awards, 3 LA Drama Critic's Circle Awards and 4 LA weekly awards, including Musical of the Year and Best Score. The NY Times called it: "unsettling, disturbing, challenging, even a little awe-inspiring."

Gunnar's family CDs have received multiple prestigious national awards, including Parents' Choice Gold Award, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold, NAPPA Gold, Scholastic Teacher's Pick Award, and the CMW Best Recording for Older Children award. His storybook adaptation of his song Old Mr. Mackle Hackle is available from Little, Brown.

In 2000, Gunnar journeyed to Russia to film a documentary on a remarkable farming community for disabled people. The film, Svetlana Village: The Camphill Experience in Russia, was an official selection of the Ojai International Film Festival.