Gayle Levant

Gayle Levant is the award-winning harpist who became the first women to serve as President of the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC)! In the 1960s she followed in her father’s footsteps and began working as a studio musician in Los Angeles (her father, Mark Levant, was the musical director for several leading movie studios in Hollywood). Gayle’s harp can be heard on hundreds of recordings, television shows and motion pictures including dozens by The Carpenters and Barbra Streisand, who became a close personal friend. Along with her longtime friend Charles Fox, she formed Evergreen Recording Studios in 1979, which later hired her husband, noted engineer John Richards. Gayle served on the board for ASMAC before becoming President and strives to advance the organization's mission to promote the craft of arranging, composing and orchestration with educational programs and by honoring musical pioneers.