Born in Bad Gastein, Austria, Gernot Wolfgang currently resides in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the program "Scoring for Motion Pictures and TV" at USC, and holds degrees from Berklee College of Music in Boston and the University of Music in Graz, Austria. Gernot Wolfgang has written original music for the animated Warner Brothers TV series Zorro, the independent feature films Ultimate Fight/The Process and Es war einmal ... , and has contributed additional music to the TV mini-series Spartacus and the motion pictures The Headsmen and Scenes of the Crime. He was a member of composer Christopher Young's team for the scores to the motion pictures Swordfish, The Hurricane, Entrapment, Rounders and others. As a guitarist with the Austrian jazz ensemble “The QuARTet” G.W. has recorded two critically acclaimed CD’s for Extraplatte and toured extensively throughout Europe.

Photograph by Diane Alancraig Gernot Wolfgang Composer The Los Angeles Times describes his piano quartet Metamorphosis as "striking", while Ronald Klimko writes in The Double Reed: "There is no doubt in my mind that Wolfgang is a major composer of our times". Gernot has received commissions from individuals and organizations such as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic principal bassoonist David Breidenthal, the Verdehr Trio & Michigan State University, the Jazz Festival of the European Broadcasting Union and the Los Angeles based chamber music series Pacific Serenades and Chamber Music Palisades. His concert works, which are published by Doblinger of Vienna and fatrock Ink of Pacific Palisades, CA, have been presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra (Japan) the Symponieorchester Vorarlberg (Austria) and the Austrian Chamber Symphony. They have been performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. and at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria. His music can be heard on Albany Records, Crystal Records, Extraplatte, Koch, Polygram and Universal. Gernot currently serves as Composer in Residence for the Beverly Hills International Music Festival. From 1990-93 Gernot was a lecturer for Jazz Composition and Harmony at the University of Music in Graz, Austria. He has received awards, grants and scholarships from organizations such as American Composers Forum, American Music Center, BMI, Billboard Magazine, Fulbright Commission, the State of Tyrol and the Austrian Ministry of Education and the Arts.