Ron Cohen is an American

United States

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 television

Television

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 composer

Composer

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 and soundtrack writer

Writer

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. He graduated from the California State University

California State University

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, in Northridge.

Positions held

• Composer on Leeza
  Leeza
  Leeza is a daytime television talk show hosted by Leeza Gibbons. The show ran on NBC between 1994 and 2000, and was also shown on other stations in markets where the local NBC affiliate pre-empted it in favor of other programming...
  
  and The Guiding Light.
• Music Writer on Go Tigers!
  Go Tigers!
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• Sound Track on Rat Race
  Rat Race (film)
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Awards and nominations

Cohen has been nominated for five Daytime Emmy awards, in the categories Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series, and Outstanding Achievement in Musical Direction and Composition for a Drama series, for his work on The Guiding Light. He was nominated from 1996 to 2004, and won twice in 1996 and 1998. His first DE win was shared with Jonathan Firstenberg

Jonathan Firstenberg

Jonathan Firstenberg is an American television composer and music supervisor.-Biography:Jonathan Firstenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up on Long Island, in Floral Park and Woodbury. Inspired by his parents, Firstenberg studied different varieties of music in his youth, and started...

, Robyn Cutler, Michael Licari

Michael Licari

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, Rick Rhodes

Rick Rhodes

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, John Henry Kreitler

John Henry Kreitler

John Henry Kreitler, also credited as John Henry, is an American television composer and song writer.-Biography:John Henry grew up in a musical household, with his mother, Alice Kreitler, being a pianist, organist and music teacher...

, Wes Boatman

Wes Boatman

-Biography:Boatman became interested in music at the age of six, and began playing such instruments as pianos and keyboards. During his adult years, he received a B.F.A. in Film and Electronic Music from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati...

, Danny Lawrence, John E. Young, David Grant

David Grant

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, Barry De Vorzon

Barry De Vorzon

Barry De Vorzon is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and composer. His first composing big hit was the rock song "Dreamin'," sung by Johnny Burnette in 1960, although he had a number-one hit previously called "Just Married," which he wrote for Marty Robbins in 1958...

, Richard Hazard

Richard Hazard

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, Edward Dzubak, and Alan Bellink.

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