Aaron Kaplan & Kevin Globerman - The Moonshine Music Co.: Chicago Blues (2018)

The composing and guitar playing of Aaron Kaplan ’96 have brought him to the forefront of a new trend: custom scoring for reality shows. Through his affiliation with Barefoot Music, a collective of composers, he started working on such shows as Top Chef, Project Runway, and The Real Housewives series. Kaplan recently launched GrooveBank “micro-libraries” offering defining themes and sonic branding for TV shows. With GrooveBank, Kaplan is bridging the gap between production libraries and custom scores. All the GrooveBank cues are composed, produced, and mixed in house. Additionally, Kaplan has created Moonshine Music Company, a country music library.

As a studio guitarist, Kaplan played on Rod Stewart’s Great American Songbook recordings and was featured on the Ironman soundtrack. Kaplan has worked with numerous Berklee alumni during his time in Los Angeles, including scoring mixer Kevin Globerman ’95, bassists Chris Golden and Eric Holden ’99. While at Barefoot, Kaplan supervised then-intern Ali Memarian ’06, who was later hired as a music supervisor. Speaking of the many professional contacts he’s made in the L.A. community, Kaplan says, “I think I know more people from Berklee out here than when I was at Berklee! It’s a tremendous network.”