Ross Wallace Chait (he/him/his)
Composer
Ross Wallace Chait is a composer and performer from Los Angeles. He has composed scores for award-winning television, theater, and film. After graduating from Oberlin College in 2013 with majors in Music and English, he moved back to Los Angeles and took a position as assistant to songwriter and Oscar-winning composer Randy Newman from 2013-2015. Subsequently, pursuing career opportunities as a performer, he toured extensively throughout North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. Chait continues to play, write, and record as a songwriter, singer, pianist, and drummer with multiple ensembles including his own group Total Heat, and as a drummer with the notable indie rock group Girlpool. In addition to work as a musician, Ross is an A&R Representative for ORG Music, Programmer and Curator at The John & Alice Coltrane Foundation / Jowcol Music, Manager at the Pico Union Project , and runs his own experimental music label Steady Hand Records.
