ELI BRUEGGEMANN

Multi-keyboardist, producer, composer, Emmy-winning musical director Eli Brueggemann is a jack of all trades. He grew up in the fertile Los Angeles musical neighborhood of Silverlake and studied music at Cal Berkeley and USC. As a player, he has performed and recorded with Mandrill, Men at Work frontman Colin Hay, Mathew Morrison, Miguel Atwood Ferguson, Flying Lotus and Carlos Santana. As an arranger and producer, he has worked with Nick Cave, Nena, John Cameron Mitchell, Marc Shaiman, and many more. Since 2011 he has been the Musical Director/Composer/Music Producer for Saturday Night Live, working with the most well know entertainers of our day, including Lin Manuel Miranda, Mic Jagger, Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande… the list goes on and on. A 5 time Emmy nominee for best song/lyrics, he won in 2018 for the song “Come Back Barack”, featuring Chance the Rapper. He has Musical Directed and played keyboards on the NBC show Maya and Marty, and MD’d the 2018 Emmy Awards. He also composed the dark score to the critically acclaimed  movie The Dinner, with Laura Linney and Richard Gere.