David Van Tieghem - "Ear to the Ground"  (CLICK THE ARROW TO PLAY)
                                                                                                                          
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*** LATEST NEWS ***
 

** RECIPIENT OF THE 2007 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP FOR MUSIC COMPOSITION **

** REPRESENTED IN THE 2007 PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL U.S. NATIONAL EXHIBIT **

** FILM SCORES **

  "SPINNING INTO BUTTER" - Directed by Mark Brokaw
            Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Miranda Richardson, Mykelti Williamson and Beau Bridges
                    Original Music by David Van Tieghem

** CURRENT & UPCOMING THEATER EVENTS **

2007-2008 SEASON

  "MAURITIUS" - by Teresa Rebeck, directed by Doug Hughes
            At the Biltmore Theatre, Broadway, NYC
            Starring F. Murray Abraham, Allison Pill, Dylan Baker and Bobby Cannavale
                    Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "CYRANO DE BERGERAC" - by Edmond Rostand, directed by David Leveaux
            At the Richard Rodgers Theatre, Broadway, NYC - NOW PLAYING
            Starring Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner
                    Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "IS HE DEAD?" - by Mark Twain, directed by Michael Blakemore
            At the Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, NYC - NOW PLAYING
            Starring Norbert Leo Butz
                    Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE BOY WHO HEARD MUSIC" - Story, Music & Lyrics by Pete Townshend, directed by Ethan Silverman
            At New York Stage and Film, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
            Starring Bree Sharp, John Hickock, Kevin Kuhn, John Patrick Walker, Ted Baker,
                    John Putnam, Matt McGrath and Steve Beskrone
                    Drumming by David Van Tieghem

2006-2007 SEASON

  "INHERIT THE WIND" - by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, directed by Doug Hughes
            At the Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, NYC
            Starring Christopher Plummer, Brian Dennehy, Dennis O'Hare and Byron Jennings
                    Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem
                   *VAN TIEGHEM NOMINATED FOR 2007 DRAMA DESK AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING MUSIC IN A PLAY*

  "HOWARD KATZ" - by Patrick Marber, directed by Doug Hughes
            At the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, Off-Broadway, NYC
            Starring Alfred Molina, Jessica Hecht, Euan Morton, Max Baker, Elizabeth Franz and Alvin Epstein
                    Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "JACK GOES BOATING" - by Bob Glaudini, directed by Peter DuBois
            Presented by LAByrinth Theater Company at the Public Theater, Off-Broadway, NYC
            Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Beth Cole, Daphne Rubin-Vega and John Ortiz
                    Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "DOUBT" - by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Doug Hughes
            *WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE*
            *WINNER OF 4 2005 TONY AWARDS*
            NATIONAL TOUR
            Starring Cherry Jones, Adriane Lenox, Lisa Joyce and Chris McGarry
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

 
2005-2006 SEASON

"THE HOUSE IN TOWN" - by Richard Greenberg, directed by Doug Hughes
            At the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, Lincoln Center, NYC
            Starring Jessica Hecht, Becky Ann Baker, Mark Harelik and Armand Schultz
                    Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THREE DAYS OF RAIN" - by Richard Greenberg, directed by Joe Mantello
            On Broadway at the Bernard P. Jacobs Theatre, NYC
            Starring Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd
                    Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "DEFIANCE" - by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Doug Hughes
            Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC
             Starring Margaret Colin and Stephen Lang
                 Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "DOUBT" - by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Doug Hughes
            *WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE*
            *WINNER OF FOUR 2005 TONY AWARDS*
            On Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre, NYC
            Starring Cherry Jones, Adriane Lenox, Heather Goldenhersh and Brian F. O'Byrne
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES" - by Frank D. Gilroy, directed by Leonard Foglia
            At the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
            Starring Judith Ivey and Bill Pullman
                    Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "A NAKED GIRL ON THE APPIAN WAY" - by Richard Greenberg, directed by Doug Hughes
            On Broadway at the Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre, NYC
            Starring Jill Clayburgh and Richard Thomas
                    Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "A TOUCH OF THE POET" - by Eugene O'Neill, directed by Doug Hughes
            On Broadway at the Roundabout's Studio 54, NYC
            Starring Gabriel Byrne
                    Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

2004-2005 SEASON
 
"GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS" - by David Mamet, directed by Joe Mantello
            *WINNER OF TWO 2005 TONY AWARDS*
            On Broadway at the Bernard P. Jacobs Theatre, NYC
            Starring Alan Alda, Liev Schreiber, Tom Wopat, Gordon Clapp and Jeffrey Tambor
                  Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE PARIS LETTER" - by John Robin Baitz, directed by Doug Hughes
            Off-Broadway at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, NYC
            Starring John Glover, Michelle Pawk, and Ron Rifkin
                   Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE CONSTANT WIFE" - by W. Somerset Maugham, directed by Mark Brokaw
            On Broadway at the Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre, NYC
            Starring Lynne Redgrave and Kate Burton
                   Sound Design by David Van Tieghem and Jill B C Du Boff

  "WOMAN BEFORE A GLASS" - by Lanie Robertson, directed by Casey Childs
            Off-Broadway at the Promenade Theatre, NYC
            Starring Mercedes Ruehl
                   Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem
                   *VAN TIEGHEM RECIPIENT OF 2005 OBIE AWARD FOR SOUND DESIGN*
                   *VAN TIEGHEM NOMINATED FOR 2005 HEWES AWARD*

  "RECKLESS" - by Craig Lucas, directed by Mark Brokaw
            On Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre, NYC
            Starring Mary-Louise Parker, Rosie Perez and Michael O'Keefe
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE GOOD BODY" - written and performed by Eve Ensler, directed by Peter Askin
            On Broadway at the Booth Theatre, NYC
                   Original Music by David Van Tieghem
                   Sound Design by David Van Tieghem and Jill B C Du Boff

** SPECIAL PROJECTS **

  NASDAQ MARKETSITE SOUNDSCAPE - Original Score & Opening Bell
        Composed and Designed by David Van Tieghem
        Produced by Imagination for the NASDAQ Marketsite in Times Square, NYC
            Played every weekday morning at 9:15 leading up to the launch of the trading day
 
 

** RECENT MODERN DANCE PROJECTS **

** MORE RECENT THEATER EVENTS **

  "RECKLESS" - by Craig Lucas, directed by Mark Brokaw
            On Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre, NYC
            Starring Mary-Louise Parker, Rosie Perez and Michael O'Keefe
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE GOOD BODY" - written and performed by Eve Ensler, directed by Peter Askin
            On Broadway at the Booth Theatre, NYC
                   Original Music by David Van Tieghem
                   Sound Design by David Van Tieghem and Jill B C Du Boff

  "McREELE" - by Stephen Belber, directed by Doug Hughes
            Off-Broadway at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, NYC
            Starring Anthony Mackie and Michael O'Keefe
                   Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "FROZEN" - by Bryony Lavery, directed by Doug Hughes
            On Broadway at Circle in the Square, NYC
            *NOMINATED FOR 4 TONY AWARDS*
           Starring Swoosie Kurtz, Laila Robbins and Brian F. O'Byrne
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE STENDHAL SYNDROME" - 2 new plays by Terrence McNally, directed by Leonard Foglia
            Off-Broadway at Primary Stages, NYC
            Starring Isabella Rossellini and Richard Thomas
                  Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "FROZEN" - by Bryony Lavery, directed by Doug Hughes
            Off-Broadway at MCC Theater, NYC - MOVED TO BROADWAY
           Starring Swoosie Kurtz, Laila Robbins and Brian F. O'Byrne
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME" - by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, directed by Mark Brokaw
            Off-Broadway at The Vineyard Theatre, NYC
            Starring Mark Blum, Enid Graham and Randy Graff
                Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE BEARD OF AVON" - by Amy Freed, directed by Doug Hughes
            Off-Broadway at New York Theater Workshop, NYC
            Starring Tim Blake Nelson
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "BIRDY" - adapted by Naomi Wallace, directed by Lisa Peterson
            Off-Broadway at The Women's Project, NYC
                  Original Music by David Van Tieghem, Sound Design by Jill B C Du Boff

  "ALL MY SONS" - by Arthur Miller, directed by Doug Hughes
            At Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT
            Starring Richard Dreyfuss and Jill Clayburgh
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "FLESH AND BLOOD" - Adapted from the book by Michael Cunningham, directed by Doug Hughes
            Off-Broadway at New York Theater Workshop, NYC
            Starring Cherry Jones, Martha Plimpton, Peter Frechette, Jeff Weiss and Jessica Hecht
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "DIOSA" - by Edwin Sanchez, directed by Melia Bensussen
            At Hartford Stage, Hartford, CT
                  Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "SCATTERGOOD" - by Anto Howard, directed by Doug Hughes
            Off-Broadway at MCC Theater, NYC
            Starring Brian Murray
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE MERCY SEAT" - written and directed by Neil LaBute
            Off-Broadway at MCC Theater, NYC
            Starring Sigourney Weaver and Liev Schreiber
                  Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE WORLD OVER" - by Keith Bunin, directed by Tim Vasen
            Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons/The Duke, NYC
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "EDGARDO MINE" - by Alfred Uhry (author of "Driving Miss Daisy"), directed by Doug Hughes
            At Hartford Stage, Hartford, CT
            Starring Brian Murray
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE CRUCIBLE" - by Arthur Miller, directed by Richard Eyre
            On Broadway at the Virginia Theatre, NYC
            *NOMINATED FOR 6 TONY AWARDS*
            Starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Brian Murray
                 Original Music by David Van Tieghem

  "HEARTS" - by Willy Holtzman, directed by Melia Bensussen
            At Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "PLAY YOURSELF" - by Harry Kondoleon, directed by Craig Lucas
           Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, NYC
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "FOUR" - by Christopher Shinn, directed by Jeff Cohen
            Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC
                  Original Music by David Van Tieghem

  "A FEW STOUT INDIVIDUALS" - by John Guare, directed by Michael Greif
            Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre, NYC
            Starring Polly Holliday, Donald Moffat and William Sadler
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "A LETTER FROM ETHEL KENNEDY" - by Christopher Gorman, directed by Joanna Gleeson
            Off-Broadway at MCC Theater, NYC
                  Original Music by David Van Tieghem, Sound Design by Jill B C Du Boff

  "WAITING FOR TADASHI" - by Velina Hasu Houston, directed by David Saint
            At George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ
                  Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "THE GLORY OF LIVING" - by Rebecca Gilman, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman
            Off-Broadway at MCC Theater, NYC
            Starring Academy Award winner Anna Paquin
                 Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem
                 VAN TIEGHEM NOMINATED FOR A 2002 DRAMA DESK AWARD FOR BEST SOUND DESIGN

  "NOCTURNE" - by Adam Rapp, directed by Mark Brokaw
            At Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA
            Starring Anthony Rapp
                 Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem
                 VAN TIEGHEM NOMINATED FOR A 2001 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA THEATER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
                     FOR BEST SOUND DESIGN

  "OTHELLO" - by William Shakespeare, directed by Doug Hughes
            At Joseph Papp Public Theatre, NYC
            Starring Keith David and Liev Schreiber
                Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "UNWRAP YOUR CANDY" - Four new plays written and directed by Doug Wright (author of "I Am My Own Wife")
            Off-Broadway at The Vineyard Theatre, NYC
                 Original Music by David Van Tieghem, Sound Design by David Van Tieghem & Jill B C Du Boff

  "THE LATE HENRY MOSS" - A new play by Sam Shepard, directed by Joseph Chaikin
            Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre, NYC
            Starring Ethan Hawke
                Original Music and Sound Design by Jill B C Du Boff & David Van Tieghem

  "JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG" - An adaptation of the teleplay by Abby Mann, directed by John Tillinger
            Starring Maximilian Schell, George Grizzard, Joseph Wiseman, Robert Foxworth, and Marthe Keller
            On Broadway at the Longacre Theatre, NYC
                                JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG explores the trials of the Nazi judges
                                for their direct influence in the horrendous war crimes after the end of
                                World War II. This emotionally charged evening of theatre, delves into a
                                lesser known aspect of this important era of history.
                Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "BLUR" - by Melanie Marnich, directed by Lynne Meadow
            Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC
            Starring Polly Draper
                Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "KING LEAR" - by William Shakespeare, directed by Michael Kahn
            At Carter Barron Amphitheatre, Washington, DC
                Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "HEDDA GABLER" - by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Doug Hughes
            At Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago. IL
            Starring Martha Plimpton
                Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

  "ANOTHER AMERICAN: ASKING & TELLING" - by Marc Wolf, directed by Joe Mantello
            At Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA
                 Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem
 
 

RECENT LIVE SOLO PERCUSSION PERFORMANCES
 

  DAVID VAN TIEGHEM
  Performing Live at the River to River Festival, Battery Park City, NYC
  June 2 & 3, 2005

  DAVID VAN TIEGHEM
  Performing Live at The Woodstock Film Festival
  September 22, 2002
 

  DAVID VAN TIEGHEM & MICHAEL MOSCHEN
  Performing Live at Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC)
       601 Broadway, Kingston, NY
  May 3, 2002 - 7:30 pm
     Annual fundraising gala for the Woodstock Day School
 

      VENICE BIENNALE
     Venice, Italy - September 23, 2000 - Teatro Arsenale
     David Van Tieghem - "Lucid Drumming"
 

      NYFA SPECIAL EVENTS
                    Trinity Real Estate and the New York Foundation for the Arts present:
     Celebrate Hudson Square: Summer in the Square 2000
     Wednesday, August 9, 2000 - David Van Tieghem
                    Location:  Hudson Square Industrial Courtyard on Spring Street, Soho, Lower Manhattan, NYC
 
 
 

OTHER RECENTLY CONCLUDED THEATER PROJECTS
 

    "GORE VIDAL'S THE BEST MAN" - A revival of the 1960 play by Gore Vidal, directed by Ethan McSweeney
              Starring Spalding Gray, Chris Noth, Elizabeth Ashley, Charles Durning, and Michael Learned
              On Broadway at the Virginia Theatre, NYC
               Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

    "CELLINI" - A new play written and directed by John Patrick Shanley
              Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre, NYC
                Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

      "STRANGER"- A new play by Craig Lucas, directed by Mark Brokaw
              Starring Kyra Sedgewick and David Strathairn
              Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre, NYC
               Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem and Jill B. C. Du Boff

      "A PLACE AT THE TABLE" - A play by Simon Block, directed by Michael Sexton
              Off-Broadway at MCC Theater, NYC
               Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

      "MICHAEL MOSCHEN - IN MOTION"
              At the Joyce Theater, , NYC, November 14-26, 2000
              Original Music by David Van Tieghem
 

"Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekhov, directed by Michael Mayer on Broadway at the
          Brooks Atkinson Theater, NYC, starring Sir Derek Jacobi, Roger Rees and Laura Linney
              Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

"The Moment When" by James Lapine, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg (director of "Let It Be") at
          Playwrights Horizons, NYC, starring Illeana Douglas and Kieran Culkin
               Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

"Naked" by Luigi Pirandello, directed by John Rando at Classic Stage Company, NYC,
          starring Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino
               Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

"Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Doug Hughes at Long Wharf Theatre,
          New Haven, CT, starring Martha Plimpton
               Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

"Wit" by Margaret Edson, directed by Derek Anson Jones;  a long run at Union Square
          Theater, NYC;  a national tour starring Judith Light;  and runs in Los Angeles and London.
               Original Music and Sound Design by David Van Tieghem
 
 

BIOGRAPHY

    DAVID VAN TIEGHEM first remembers making music with pots and pans on the kitchen floor when he was about five years old, growing up in Ridgewood, NJ. As a teenager, he taught himself to play drums, and then studied percussion with Justin DiCioccio, of NYC's LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. He later attended Manhattan School of Music as a student of modern percussion pioneer Paul Price.

    As a free-lance drummer/percussionist, he has worked with Steve Reich & Musicians, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno & David Byrne, Arthur Russell, the Broadway musical "Smokey Joe's Cafe," the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, Stevie Nicks, Howard Shore, Jon Gibson, Talking Heads, Robert Fripp, Scott Johnson, Robert Gordon, Duran Duran, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sergei Kuryokhin, Pink Floyd, Michael Oldfield, John Cale, Chris Spedding, Richard Peaslee, Twyla Tharp, Elliott Murphy, Nona Hendryx, Arto Lindsay, Bob Clearmountain, Jerry Harrison, Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks, Adrian Belew, Merce Cunningham, Graciela Daniele, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, the Big Apple Circus, Bill Laswell, Ned Sublette, Tony Williams, Lenny Pickett, Michael Nyman, David Moss, John Zorn, Anton Fier, the Golden Palominos, Robert Ashley, and Peter Gordon's Love of Life Orchestra, among others.

    Since 1977 he has been presenting his solo percussion-theater performances in venues throughout the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Composers Showcase series and the Serious Fun! Festival at Lincoln Center, Central Park SummerStage, the Bottom Line, the Kitchen, the Knitting Factory, the Palladium, the Beacon Theater, P. S. 122, the Guggenheim and Whitney Museums, Studio 54, Danceteria, the Performing Garage, the Peppermint Lounge, and the Mudd Club in NYC, "Late Night with David Letterman," Nickelodeon, the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Wiltern Theater in LA, the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, the Milwaukee Art Museum, The Maine Festival, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, the NY State Performing Arts Center in Albany, The Exploratorium in San Francisco, the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh, the New Music America Festivals in Washington, DC, Miami and New York, the NY State Council on the Arts New Music Network tour, the "Good Morning America" and "Ripley's Believe It or Not" TV shows, the Ambient Music Festival in Rome, the Herbst Festival in Austria, the Festival D'Automne in Paris, and several solo concert tours of Japan.

    As an actor/musician, he has appeared in music-theater with Keith Carradine and Ellen Greene at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, in performance-art by Robert Longo, in photographs by William Wegman, and in video art by John Sanborn & Kit Fitzgerald, and Nam June Paik.  He also played several roles in Robert Ashley's television operas, "Perfect Lives (Private Parts)" and "Atalanta (Acts of God)" from 1978 to 1983, and is featured in Laurie Anderson's 1986 feature film, "Home of the Brave." He has also appeared in TV commercials for Sony, Levi's and Diet Coke.

    Van Tieghem's original video works, "Ear Drums," "Ear-Responsibility," and the well-known "Ear to the Ground," wherein Van Tieghem literally "plays" the streets of New York as if it were a musical instrument, have become internationally acclaimed favorites. These collaborations with video artists John Sanborn, Kit Fitzgerald, and Mary Perillo have been televised and presented in art venues and nightclubs throughout the world. In 1985, "Ear to the Ground" opened the premiere season of the PBS TV series "Alive from Off-Center."

    In 1983, choreographer Twyla Tharp commissioned Van Tieghem to create the score for her full-company work, "Fait Accompli," which was performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, the 1984 Olympics Arts Festival in Los Angeles, and the Gershwin Theater on Broadway. In 1984, the soundtrack for "Fait Accompli" was released by Warner Bros. as the LP "These Things Happen." Currently Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is on a world tour with a 1995 revival of "Fait Accompli."

    Van Tieghem has also created original commissioned dance scores for The Boston Ballet, Elisa Monte Dance Company, The Pennsylvania Ballet, Wendy Perron Dance Company, Molissa Fenley, Jennifer Muller/The Works, and Hilary Easton & Dancers.

    In 1985, he composed the music for "The Alchemedians," a performance piece by Michael Moschen & Bob Berky, presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival and on Broadway, and in 1986, he collaborated with choreographer Wendy Perron as a dancer/composer to create their duet, "Divertissement."

    Van Tieghem composed the scores for Lizzie Borden's 1986 feature film "Working Girls," and "Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread," a sci-fi comedy directed by Bob Balaban. His music has also been heard on the TV shows "General Hospital," "Smithsonian World," "Entertainment Tonight," "Donahue," "Alive from Off-Center," "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," "Newton's Apple," "The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson," "Nature," "Hard Copy," and the ABC 1984 Olympics coverage, as well as in Spalding Gray's commercial for Virgin Atlantic Airlines, and the Broadway play "Six Degrees of Separation."

    In 1987, Private Music released Van Tieghem's second album, "Safety In Numbers," and "Galaxy," a music-video utilizing ground-breaking digital video technology and computer animation, directed by John Sanborn & Mary Perillo, which has been shown repeatedly on MTV, VH-1, and worldwide television. That same year, Van Tieghem became the first US composer/ performance artist to present his work in the USSR as part of a new cultural exchange program with the Soviet Composers Union.

    In 1988, he premiered several new works of music, dance and performance at the Serious Fun! Festival at Lincoln Center, and collaborated as composer/performer with John Sanborn & Mary Perillo to create "Cause and Effect