GENERAL:
Lily Burns is a producer, songwriter, composer, and engineer from San Francisco, CA. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 2016 she moved to Los Angeles where she began working with independent artists on developing their sound, arranging their live shows, and/or mixing albums and singles. She is dedicated to interpreting the artist’s vision and making it her own, as well as capturing each artist’s unique personality in the sound of the work she creates for them.
In 2018, Burns was hired as an assistant to the prolific producer, AG, who brought her into the world of film and tv music. Under AG, Burns has developed her skillset as a sync producer and writer, both ghost-producing for AG and working on her own.
In 2020, Burns began her transition into the sync world with her project Daughters Of The Deep, a dark trailer EP aimed at period piece contexts with immense soundscapes that evoke images of other worlds. On the tails of that project, Burns dove into writing and producing for sync in various forms, collaborating with other artists in the sync space, doing custom work for trailers and promos, and participating in sync-focused writing camps a la Silo, She Writes, Anacrusis, and Ultra Music. In June 2021 Burns landed her first placement when her cover of ‘Theme From New York, New York’ with AG and Biz Colletti was featured in the teaser trailer for “The Morning Show” on Apple TV+. Since, Burns has landed additional placements in shows such as Grey’s Anatomy, Roswell NM, Virgin River, and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin.
SOLO ORIGINAL MUSIC:
At Berklee, Lily created a buzz amongst fellow students and teachers alike as one of the most creative songwriters and players of her class. A Berklee video for her song If You're Tired reached over 130,000 views on youtube and her EP, titled Idly Wild and featuring this song and others, was highly anticipated. The EP was recorded and produced by Simon Katz and co-produced by Chris Geller - both recent Berklee graduates who also play in her band. These three together, along with singer Olivia Laratta and a rotating cast of fantastic lead guitarists, create an incendiary new sound that is both lyrically compelling and musically satisfying. Lily has shifted her focus away from an artist career, but uses her experience creating this EP in her everyday work as a producer, a writer, and an engineer. The experience was invaluable to her development as a musician and a collaborator.
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Photo by Jen Rosenstein