joelhenrystein

Composer, producer, singer-songwriter, and music educator in Los Angeles.

Joel Henry Stein is the founder and CEO of Green Zebra Music, a boutique sync licensing and music production company in Los Angeles, California that provides music to films, television, games, and advertising.

Ticketmaster.com describes Joel Henry Stein as “Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan rolled into one, making rockin' folk music that picks you up and takes you on a journey to Woody Guthrie-land, with stops in Velvet Underground-ville.” The Houston Chronicle says he “flirts with many musical styles, flitting energetically and effortlessly from Dylan's poetic storytelling to Bowie's epic lyricism to Ben Folds Five's sassy piano-driven jaunts, and all points in between.”

Stein has released five original alternative folk-rock albums. He has played guitar on a national tour with the Three Irish Tenors, been featured in Time magazine, been voted "Best Houston Guitarist" by Ticketmaster/Citysearch.com, and been nominated "Songwriter of the Year" in the Houston Press Awards. He has also received seven ASCAP awards for his songwriting achievement, and has been showcased in New York by the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the CMJ Music Festival. He recently produced Deanna Julian's debut album, Wake Me, Shake Me.

Stein also writes music for theater, dance, film, television, multi-media, and classical ensembles. He has composed and arranged music for the Discovery Channel, the Atlanta Symphony, the Three Cantors, and several modern dance companies in New York, LA, and Houston. He has also written and directed music for the Tony Award-winning Alley Theater in Houston, and co-wrote and directed the musical Election Day, which ran at the American Theater of Actors in New York in 2005. His original rock opera, The Demise, previewed in West Hollywood in January, 2012.

In the '90s, while living in NYC, Stein worked as piano and percussion accompanist at the Martha Graham School for Contemporary Dance and also at the Alvin Ailey Dance Center. He has collaborated with former members of the Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham companies, and has received grants from Meet the Composer and from the Mary Flagler Carey Charitable Trust for his dance collaborations.

Stein holds a PhD in music composition and theory from UCLA, where he also taught musicianship, theory, and music technology f