About
Ross Wallace Chait is a composer and performer from Los Angeles. He has composed scores for television, theater, commercials, and film. After graduating from Oberlin College in 2013 with majors in Music and English, he moved back to Los Angeles and immediately took a position as personal assistant to songwriter and Oscar-winning composer Randy Newman from 2013-2015. Under Mr. Newman, Ross gained an incomparable knowledge of the writing and composing process, working with Randy one on one as he wrote and played from home, in the studio, and on the road. He left the position to pursue career opportunities as a performer, touring 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 drummer and multi-instrumentalist for Girlpool. In addition to work as a musician, Ross is an A&R Representative for ORG Music, the Executive Assistant and Curator at The John & Alice Coltrane Foundation / Jowcol Music, Production Manager for the Ambient Church concert series, and runs his own experimental music label Steady Hand Records.
Clients include: Remodelista, Gardenista, Neubauer Collegium, Emile Mosseri, Zane Rubin, Jack Henry Robbins, Girlpool, Okkervil River, Claud.
