Level 77 Staff Archives - Level 77 Music

Mark

Mark is a film composer, orchestrator, music producer, and musician. He completed Advanced Orchestration for Film and TV at Berklee College of Music. Mark has worked in the Atlanta area for over 20 years and has experience in many genres, including Orchestral, Orchestral Hybrid, and World Music. His music can be heard in over 50 TV shows and numerous feature films.

As an Atlanta Film Composer, Mark has composed for films such as Beyond All Odds: Surviving the Holocaust, Birds of a Feather 2 (Zaytoven), Flowers, Flowers 2, Anomaly, Lung, Lung II, Ghost of a Chance, Towering Infernal, and many others.

TV credits include Bachelor in Paradise, American Greed, The Bachelor, Bachelorette, Homicide Hunter, Fatal Attraction, Unexplained and Unexplored, Mission Declassified, Nova Wonders, Fear Factor, Impractical Jokers, Snapped: Killer Couples, Homicide City, Murder Chose Me, Aerial America, Murder Comes to Town and Sticker Shock.

Josh Nathan

Josh is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in the Atlanta area. After graduating from Berklee College of Music with a degree in jazz composition, he spent several years performing around the world and eventually managing his own touring band out of California. When COVID began, Josh started composing music for various publishing libraries and agencies.

Exceedingly comfortable being a business-minded ‘swiss army knife’, Josh is helping level 77 with administration and operations.

Zach Balch

Zach Balch is an award-winning singer/songwriter, guitarist, record producer and recording engineer with elite experience across the music industry spectrum. His professional career began as an intern with The Recording Academy’s Texas chapter, interfacing with professionals across Austin’s vibrant music industry and learning their philosophies about art and business. Wanting to put in the same work as the many he admired in the GRAMMY membership base, he returned to the Dallas/Fort Worth music scene, where he worked as a full-time gigging and recording artist before graduating into producing records for a number of local and regional acts. Desiring more knowledge and experience in the broader music industry, Zach moved into a career in music licensing with a Universal Music Group subsidiary. With FirstCom Music, he cut his teeth placing tracks in national spots with giants like Toyota, Doritos and Coca Cola and worked in the film/TV sphere with placements across the El Rey Network, HGTV, and many feature films

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Alex

Alex is a native Atlantian. He is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and producer. Alex began his career in music when he founded the Rock band, Bridge To Grace. He was the guitarist and primary songwriter. Bridge to Grace toured the United States for 4 years and had 4 Top 40 Mainstream Rock singles.

Currently Alex is the creative force behind the Alternative band, Fnkhouser and artist, Kaskera.

Alex joined New Level Music and Level 77 in 2021. He works as an associate producer and production coordinator creating all kinds of songs in different genres and styles.

Amore

Amore Jones is a professional songwriter, vocal producer, and classically trained vocalist. As a Songwriter/Producer for Level77Music, Amore is responsible for delivering catchy, emotive, and impactful records that grab the attention of your audience with a clear marketable message. With over a decade of experience in his field – writing within genres as wide as Bluegrass to Pop, and Rock to Hip-Hop/R&B – Amore has acquired and honed the skills to bring out the best quality and emotion in any record.

Jason

Jason Rudd is a 21 year PMA-winning veteran of the production music industry, with two full decades as a producer at FirstCom music. He placed music for films like American Pie 2, I Tonya, and more, and was responsible for custom music projects for Fox Sports, ESPN, and many others.

Anthony

Anthony Arasi is the Chief Technical Officer of Level 77 Music. A lifelong musician and vocalist, he began his career after graduating from Full Sail in 2005 with an engineering focus in recording and mixing. Since then, he has worked on thousands of tracks for artists around the world.

In 2011, he began working with New Level Music and Cheer Music Productions where he oversees all technical and procedural aspects of that company’s stable of producers and engineers. For Level 77, he actively works on various aspects of the production cycle. His duties include placing artists and producers on projects, recording and mixing songs for releases, and assisting in the management of the production pipeline.

Heather

Heather Henderson is the Chief Operating Officer at Level 77 Music. She plays a key role in developing business solutions, providing outstanding client service, and driving revenue growth. She oversees the day-to-day administrative and operational functions of the company. Heather additionally oversees the coordination of marketing and at Level 77 Music.

Heather worked at Florida Atlantic University from 2004 until 2021. For the past three years, she worked with Institutional Advancement to support venture companies at FAU Tech Runway by working with philanthropists and top corporations to help support program needs. Heather spent most of her time in athletics at FAU. She joined the football staff in November of 2012 with the primary focus on assisting with on-campus recruiting. In February 2013, following the compilation of the best signing class in the program’s history, Heather began assuming more duties and was named the director of football operations (DFO) in April of that year. As DFO, Heather was the first female in Division IA to take on this role. Heather worked under three coaching staffs led by Lane Kiffin, Charlie Partridge and Carl Pelini.

Before her move to Boca Raton in 2003, Heather served as the director of sales and marketing council for Home Builders Association of Greater Columbia, S.C. Heather has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Marketing from Mars Hill University.

Patrick

Patrick Avard is a pioneering entrepreneur, award-winning music producer, and the CEO and founder of Georgia-based Production Music company, Level 77 Music. Avard has been known as the top producer of World Championship cheer music for more than two decades, and his tracks were featured in the hit Netflix series CHEER. Most recently, he is focused on the rapid growth and expansion of Level 77 Music which is music catalogue and custom music house based in the Atlanta area which creates high-quality, original music for film, TV, advertising, and video games.

Patrick produced the album G.I.R.L (Girls in Real Life) for Level 77 Music’s VIVE Label. The song “Be Mine” Is the recipient of the 2022 Mark Award, POP Track of the year. Which you can listen to HERE.