Roma Baran
Biography and photo from Idaho Public Television

Roma Baran is a folk musician and Grammy®-nominated music producer who has produced for many artists, including Laurie Anderson and Kate & Anne McGarrigle. She was also nominated for an Oscar® for her work as co-producer of a documentary about the music of Bernard Herrman. Baran has produced several of Rosalie Sorrels' recordings, including the Grammy-nominated "My Last-Go Round." She was one of the musicians accompanying Sorrels during her concert in Hailey, ID, and is producing the CD of the concert. She met Sorrels in New York when she was just a teenager and looking for work as a guitarist.

Baran was music supervisor for BLOODHOUNDS OF BROADWAY (1989), and she produced the music for ANTIGONE/RITES OF PASSION (1990). As a songwriter, her work appeared in HOME OF THE BRAVE: A FILM BY LAURIE ANDERSON (1986). Baran's television credits include mixing the muxic for "Rosalie Sorrels: Way Out in Idaho" (2007) for Idaho Public Television.

 Nominated for Achievement in Documentary Features 1992: MUSIC FOR THE MOVIES: BERNARD HERMANN - Producer (w. Margaret Smilov)

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