Cinamour Entertainment
Recorded at the world-renown Todd-AO Scoring Stage, this is a classic leitmotif score with broad romantic themes underscoring magic, martial arts, and destiny. The 95-piece orchestra featured film music legends Endre Granat, Malcom McNab, and Jim Thatcher, with Academy Award-winning engineer Shawn Murphy recording.
Prologue & Main Titles The Highest Magic Forest Escape
Two Kingdoms A Mission for Two Brothers The Kiss and the Betrayal
Khan's Attack "Practice, Child" Duel with Destiny

Fight in the Cave

A Friend Goodbyes
The Chosen One Seki Sees the Light A Family Reunited
An Insidious Plot & Seki's Journey The Pirate Lank & Yawn's Message Main Title - Reprise
"You Must Learn" The Wind and the Tree
Symbols & Lessons Trapped
Six Flags Theme Parks
This score was written to accompany the motion simulator ride currently running at Six Flags' MovieWorld Theme Parks in Madrid and Australia.  The score needed to seamlessly integrate the theme from the 1989 film with new themes which I wrote for Joker, Catwoman and Mr. Freeze. Recorded at Todd-AO and engineered by Shawn Murphy. Killer visuals by BLUR Studio - check them out.
Batman - The Simulator Ride (Music Only)
Batman - The Simulator Ride (Video)
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Quicktime Version
I wrote this score to accompany a six-minute film created for Warner Bros. Pictures' ShoWest exhibition, which I also directed, edited and served as visual effects supervisor on. It was recorded at Sony Pictures Scoring Stage and was engineered by Shawn Murphy.
Warner Bros. - The World is Watching (Music Only)
Warner Bros. - The World is Watching (Video)
Quicktime Version
Warner Bros. - ShoWest '01
Femme Fatale
Scooby-Doo
Ocean's 11
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Yu-Gi-Oh
The Majestic
ABC Family
Into the Arms of Strangers
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Pokemon: The Movie
Looney Tunes Retail Commercial
Six Flags Theme Parks - Nightly Watershow, Madrid
Pokemon the Movie 2000
Pokemon 3
Queen of the Damned
The PowerPuff Girls Movie
Batman Retail Commercial
Harry Potter - "Toy Fair"
Winner - 2003 Telly Award for Music, Art Direction and Motion Graphics Winner - 2002 Telly Award & 2002 Aurora Award for Music and Graphics
Warner Bros. - "The Magic of Harry Potter"
Warner Bros. - ShoWest 99
Winner - 2000 Aurora Award for Music Winner - 2000 Aurora Award
In 1995, 23-year-old Mike Verta released his debut album, national radio favorite and top-ten mainstay, "The Phoenix" to critical acclaim from both reviewers and jazz fans alike. Featuring the multi-week top-three hit, "Saul Steps Out", the album features Mike on piano, along with jazz icons Boney James and Grant Geissman, Bill Cantos, Manyungo Jackson, Randy Drake, Land Richards, Alec Milstein, Juan-Carlos Quintero and Phil Ingram (vocals).  After a wildly successful run on radio, the album was toured to sold-out crowds at jazz festivals and concerts nationwide.
The Phoenix After All Saul Steps Out
O.B.C. Jennifer Please The Touch
Siren of the Serengeti Castaway A Moment Alone
Online Janus
A year later, "TimeLine", a more electronic take on contemporary jazz - and featuring the radio favorite, "Night of Orion" - continued to build on the success of its precedessor. Returning was guitarist Grant Geissman, and sax man Greg Vail. The same universal critical praise surrounded the release of this diverse follow-up, and both albums feature tracks still in heavy rotation today.
Toys Leap of Faith Night of Orion
TimeLine Maybe Yes, Maybe No When Love Has Wings
Coming Soon
Winner - 2004 Communicator Award
Winner - 2004 Telly Award