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Image:JanetRitz.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Janet Ritz - CD Cover|Janet Ritz Janet Ritz, an award winning United States|U.S. musician, author and environmental activist, is the youngest daughter of pioneering Courtroom Sketch Artist, Rosalie Ritz, and the recipient of Yahama Corporation's 2004 International Music Production Prize (first place). Born in Washington, D.C., Ritz moved with her family to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was ten. She began to compose music two years later, quickly coming to the attention of the local music community who introduced her to the professional recording studio environment. While attending Berkeley High School, California|Berkeley High School, Ritz became acquainted with rock music promoter Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham, who was utilizing the school as a venue for concerts. During this time, Ritz studied music theory and orchestration with a prot??g?? of France|French composer, Darius Milhaud and composition with the brother of writer Anais Nin, composer and University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley music professor (emeritus), Joaquin Nin-Culmell. After her schooling, Ritz was hired by Graham's management division where she worked as a music copyist on albums by Carlos Santana and Eddie Money. Ritz went on to work in a production capacity at CBS Records' International Music Marketing Conventions, as well as at other well-known entertainment corporations, but soon expressed disillusionment with the business side of the music business and sought out her mentor, Joaquin Nin-Culmell, who encouraged her to return to music composition and to explore writing as a profession. In June of 1991, Bill Graham (promoter)|Graham made the same recommendation. Following Bill Graham (promoter)|Graham's untimely death (due to a helicopter crash) in October, 1991, Ritz moved to Los Angeles, California, where she worked as a recording studio musician/producer and performed as a vocalist with various artists, including actor Jeff Goldblum's band and saxophone|saxophonist Tom Scott (musician)|Tom Scott. In 2004, Ritz co-wrote and recorded, with Los Angeles composer, http://www.jonathanhayesmusic.com Jonathan Hayes, four of the eleven songs for her 2005 CD release. It was out of this effort that she received the Yamaha International Music Production Award. A committed environmentalist, several of Ritz's compositions have been used as theme songs for charitable causes, including actor Dennis Weaver's environmental events known as the "International Hydrogen Drives," where celebrities form caravans of alternative fuels|alternatively fueled vehicles and drive them through the United States|U.S., Canada and Mexico in an effort to raise public awareness of fossil fuel damage to the environment. Ritz also participated in the 2004 presidential election, working as an online National Voter Outreach Coordinator for Wesley K. Clark|General Wesley Clark's campaign and originating an Internet based grassroots community known as Clark's Army, which was active in all fifty states. Following Wesley K. Clark|Clark's withdrawl from the presidential race, Ritz directed her Clark's Army "grassrooters" to transfer their efforts to the League of Conservation Voters. Ritz divides her time between music and writing. Her first novel, a geo-political-environmental cautionary tale, has been offered a film option and is pending release. Her second, an historical novel with parallels to current geopolitical events, is slated for completion in late 2006.
Category:American environmentalists|Ritz, Janet Category:Musicians|Ritz, Janet Category:Women writers|Ritz, Janet Category:Writers|Ritz, Janet This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Janet Ritz".
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