The Kaufman Agency

Representing Composers for Film and Television

Globally Since 1986

Jeff H Kaufman Biography

Kaufman spearheaded an international expansion of the company by personally signing and becoming their first US representative, such diverse talent as Vladimir Cosma, Mason Daring, Carl Davis, Klaus Doldinger, John DuPrez, Michael Gibbs, Richard Hartley, Richard Harvey, Dick Hyman, Alaric Rokko Jans, Stanley Myers, Michael Nyman, Jean Claude Petit, Barrington Pheloung, Rachel Portman, Mark Suozo, Gabriel Yared, Yello, Hans Zimmer and many others to the agency..
Over the next decade, Kaufman was a partner in the Bart Milander Agency and its various incarnations including Milander, Schleussner, Kaufman, and Film Music Associates which merged with Soundtrack Music Associates. By late 1996, Kaufman left the agency in a situation similar to the film, “Jerry McGuire” to open up his own firm, The Kaufman Agency.
The Kaufman Agency formed on January 1, 1997, represents composers who have been the recipients of awards worldwide who specialize in all venues of music including film, television, commercials, theater, installations, live performance and museums.
Jeff H Kaufman is a member of The Screen Actor’s Guild, British Academy of Film Television and Arts (BAFTA-LA), The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Independent Features Projects West, ACLU , The Southern Poverty Law Center and is an alumnus of UCLA and CSUN with a degree in Speech Communication and Media Relations .
Kaufman has been a columnist for the foreign publication, “Film Music” on the state of Film Music in today’s marketplace and has been a speaker/ lecturer at several well-known universities. His extensive knowledge of film history along with his collection of memorabilia, recorded music and film is a testament to his love of the musical art, industry and it’s potential.

Jeff H Kaufman began his career in film as a child actor during the 1960’s. He appeared on several popular shows and in a half dozen commercials. In the mid Seventies, he was co-founder of an international fan mail service business whose clients included ABC, Universal and Warner Brothers. In the late 70’s, he became a manager and buyer for Rene’s All Ears (a local new / used record store located on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles) it was at Celebrity Mail Service and Rene’s All Ears that he met and interacted with many background and foreground players in the film , television and record industry.
In December 1985, Richard Kraft and Charles Ryan , customers of the record store and film music agents at Bart-Milander Associates, (the oldest film music firm) approached Kaufman to join the firm. In January 1986,Kaufman began work immediately and within the year became an agent with the company. The clientele included such notable names as Angelo Badalamenti, Thom Bell, Richard Rodney Bennett, Charles Bernstein, Elmer Bernstein, Peter Bernstein, Don Black, Stanley Clarke, Bill Conti , Stewart Copeland, Hal David, Georges Delerue, Randy Edelman, Danny Elfman, Charles Fox,Norman Gimbel, Ernest Gold, Lee Holdridge, Trevor Jones, Dana Kaproff, Woijech Kilar, Francis Lai , Michel Legrand ,Henry Mancini, Giorgio Moroder, Ira Newborn, David Newman, Basil Poledouris, Lee Ritenour, Miklos Rozsa, Craig Safan, Lalo Schifrin, Alan Silvestri, Mark Snow, Ken Thorne, Jonathan Tunick, Shirley Walker, Christopher Young, among many other internationally respected artists and composers.

The Kaufman Agency

Jeff H Kaufman Biography

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