Gaye Tolan Hatfield
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Gaye Tolan Hatfield is a Berklee graduate and an associate professor in the Ear Training Department. She has taught in the Harmony, Voice, and Ensemble departments. Her work outside of the college includes writing, arranging, transcribing, and performing locally as a vocalist, pianist, and flutist. She has assisted orchestrators for the Boston Pops, and wrote a choral arrangement that was performed at the Fourth of July concert by the Boston Pops in 2013.
Hatfield’s compositions can be heard on a variety of television shows, including NCIS, History Detectives, The Young and the Restless, Revenge, NUMB3RS, CSI: NY, The Good Wife, and United States of Tara. She also has composed for the films Dear John and What to Expect When You’re Expecting. She has also been a member of the Providence Singers, and wrote an arrangement of “Someone to Watch Over Me” for their 2007–2008 Gershwin tribute concert.
- Member, Sisters of Swing
- Composer, MetroMusic, Heavy Hitters music libraries
- Source music placements for television including Ed, NCIS, Judging Amy, Brotherhood, and The District
- Arranger, National Public Radio's From the Top, and Tanglewood Festival Chorus
- Player, FX's Rescue Me
- Member, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)
- B.A., Berklee College of Music
- Level 3 graduate, Somatic Voicework: The LoVetri Method