Biography

Dan Slider grew up on the south side of Chicago. His father was a music teacher, directing bands from the junior high thru high school levels. While in high school, Dan played trumpet with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, and also performed locally with his own band. After graduating he performed on the road with several bands before heading out to Boston to attend the Berklee College of Music where he studied trumpet and big band arranging. While at Berklee, Dan played jazz trumpet in the prestigious Phil Wilson Dues Band. After his stint in Boston, he moved out west at the urgings of his close friend, bassist (now guitarist/composer) Dann Glenn. The two recorded a jazz-fusion album together in 1984 titled, "A Whispered Warning" (ITI/Allegiance Records). The LP received steady airplay on jazz radio, and was repeatedly licensed to television shows such as the 1984 Winter Olympics.

In the mid 80's Dan began to study film scoring/orchestration privately with renowned composer/orchestrator Dr. Albert Harris in Van Nuys, CA. Dr. Harris was a Pulitzer prize winning composer/ arranger who formed Music Service Inc. with Nelson Riddle. He was also best known for his music direction for Barbara Streisand on the "Barbara and Other Instruments" television special on CBS. and many Quinn Martin Television series Dan studied for 2 years with Dr. Harris, while concurrently studying with Don Ray at UCLA. He also studied arranging with Billy Byers (Frank Sinatra) at his Malibu home.

After completing his studies, Dan started as a music supervisor at The Studio Music Dept. Here, he supervised the scoring of several movie of the weeks and features. He worked on "Fatal Vision" for NBC Productions, and began to score source music for many of the projects the company brought in, such as "Unnatural Causes" starring John Ritter. It was during this time that he scored the TV series "Fast Copy" for NBC and wrote the new theme song for the syndicated version of "Your Show Of Shows". Next up was the theme song for the "Cyrstal Light National Aerobic Championships". This theme is still used today for many international events. Dan has scored over 1000 hours of prime-time network television programming to date.
- IMDb mini biography by: Sylvester D