Ray Loring

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Charles Raymond Loring II Born 1943, known professionally as Ray Loring, he is a freelance composer and college professor in Massachusetts.

He graduated from Perley High School in his home town of Georgetown, MA. He studied piano with Fred Noonan, the White House pianist to Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. He studied at Yale University at Timothy Dwight College, particularly with the late Edmund Morgan. He was a member of Scroll and Key.

During his senior year he was granted the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and used it for his graduate studies at Brandeis University Graduate School of Music, studying under Seymour Shifrin, Arthur Berger and Harold Shapero.

He has done scores, as early as 1971 with the film Ruby, and continues to do commissions with NOVA and the History Channel.

Loring also taught at Endicott College circa 1980-1992 and went into freelance composing full time until 2007 when he was accepted into the music faculty at Gordon College, where he presently teaches.

In his leisure he enjoys hiking with friends and has completed the New Hampshire 48 and the New England 67, both high accomplishments regarded in the hiking world.

[edit] Commissions and scores

1. "Nova" (music theme) (53 episodes, 1997-2007) (composer: theme music) (2 episodes, 2006)

         - Pocahontas Revealed (2007) TV episode (music theme)
         - Saved by the Sun (2007) TV episode (music theme)
         - Kings of Camouflage (2007) TV episode (music theme)
         - First Flower (2007) TV episode (music theme)
         - The Last Great Ape (2007) TV episode (music theme)
           (50 more)

1. "Nova ScienceNow" (music theme) (39 episodes, 2005-2007)

         - Aging (2007) TV episode (music theme)
         - Maya (2007) TV episode (music theme)
         - Profile: Bonnie Bassler (2007) TV episode (music theme)
         - Space Elevator (2007) TV episode (music theme)
        - 1918 Flu (2006) TV episode (music theme)
           (34 more)

1. Why the Towers Fell (2002) (TV) (composer: additional music)

Composer:

1. "Nova" (9 episodes, 1998-2006)

         - The Deadliest Plane Crash (2006) TV episode
         - Saving the National Treasures (2005) TV episode
         - Descent Into the Ice (2004) TV episode
         - Dogs and More Dogs (2004) TV episode
         - Dirty Bomb (2003) TV episode
           (4 more)

1. Einstein Revealed (1996) (TV)

  3. "Secrets of Lost Empires II" (1996) TV series (unknown episodes)
  4. Ruby (1971) 

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