Fritz Heede is a California based music composer/producer and multi-instrumentalist who weaves eastern and western influences into dramatic and evocative works. Equally at home with styles ranging from electronica grooves to symphonic epics to folkloric aboriginal drones, Fritz’s work is progressive yet heartfelt.

Starting out as a student of flamenco guitar, Fritz soon expanded his musical palette to other exotic stringed instruments and percussion. He added electronic keyboard programming and orchestration to his skills as he pursued a career in film scoring. He has created music for various feature films and television specials like NBC’s Emmy winning “Mystery of the Sphinx”. Opening a post production facility with editor Jason Stelzel, Fritz scored and helped produce projects for the U.N., Whaleman Foundation, Julian Lennon, the Grammies, and the Academy for Future Science. He worked with such great talent as Charlton Heston, John Hurt, and Ed Asner, and acted as Associate Producer for the award winning documentary “Hidden Wars of Desert Storm”.

Re-focusing on performing, Fritz joined the world music ensemble Mystic Journey, with whom he gigged and toured for five years playing classical guitar, sitar, octave mandolin, and Turkish saz. At the same time, he started working with computer video artist John Banks, with whom he created the surreal art DVD “Illuminated Manuscripts”. The duo’s follow-up DVD “Ritual Path” features Jon Anderson of YES, as well as Lithuanian-American singer-songwriter Nijole Sparkis, for whom Fritz produced the world-pop CD “Parallel Universe”.

Fritz has co-written and produced a lush inovative album with Jon Anderson of YES. It is currently being reworked to be a sequel to Jon's masterpeice "Olias of Sunhillow". Additionally, he has scored the sountrack to the film "Belonging" narrated by Dustin Hoffman. It is a scientific and spiritual journey into humanity's footprint on the Earth.

His lastest score is to his own film Caesar's Messiah.