A composer, singer and producer, Charles Gran has worked mainly in the fields of classical music, musical-theater, performance art and electronic music. His catalogue includes compositions for orchestra, big-band, chamber music, works for solo instruments and works that combine acoustic instruments with synthesizer. Some of his most highly regarded works include The Nice Model for cello and vocoder, Tick-tock for wind in instrument and drum machine and End Times – a musical/opera hybrid about apocalypses. His concert and theatrical compositions have been performed in The Theater Building (Chicago), Academy for New Musical Theater (Los Angeles), Glensheil (Johannesburg), The Colony Theater (Los Angeles), Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles), Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), Highways Performance Space (Santa Monica), Millikin University (Illinois), Colby College (Maine), Lane Community College (Oregon), Santa Monica College, University of Puget Sound, and the University of Costa Rica. Dr. Gran was born and raised in Southern California and hold a PhD in music composition from the University of California, Los Angeles (2004). His major teachers include Paul Chihara, Lloyd Rogers, Paul Reale and Ian Krouse. He is a professor in the Department of Music at Truman State University, where he has taught since 2008. Dr. Gran has collaborated with Cherie Sampson since 2018 and composed and produced for Sampson’s video work, Uphold (from below), which has been screened more than two dozen times in galleries and festivals around the world. His compositional work on the “every.single.one” performance began in 2020, with additional music being composed in 2024. He worked with three instrumentalists on these projects: Brian Kubin (cello), Elain Aubuchon (oboe) and Xin Gao (saxophones).