Loren Toolajian

Sandblast founding member, composer, producer & broadcaster, Loren combines his passion for music and exploring the creative process in myriad ways.

His music for film and television has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, Showtime, MTV, ESPN, HBO & Sesame Street.  His theatre music has played in New York, most recently for Tony Award-winning Christine Jones' Theatre for One, and in regional theatre in Boston, San Francisco, & Louisville.  He is a proud member of NY’s renowned 52nd Street Project, for which he has written over fifty songs. Recently, he composed music for Eric Schmidt’s The Age of AI: And Our Human Future, and original music for Apple TV’s upcoming show The New Look.

As the resident composer of NY’s acclaimed Signature Theatre Company, Loren collaborated with the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, including Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Horton Foote, Lanford Wilson, Adrienne Kennedy, Bill Irwin, Regina Taylor, Lee Blessing, and Edward Albee.

In the studio, he has produced songs for T Bone Burnett, Alicia Keys, Sheryl Crow, Jennifer Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Mos Def, Brad Paisley, Meghan Andrews, Shane Patrick, and Jesse Lenat.

After broadcasting stints in San Francisco, Los Angeles, & New York, Loren is starting his 15th season at the Metropolitan Opera, where he conducts live backstage interviews for the 10 million worldwide listeners of the Metropolitan Opera Saturday radio broadcast.