Career
He is best known for his scores to the Mel Brooks films Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving lieutenant He was nominated for two more for arrangements on the series Moonlighting. In addition to composing for television and film, Mann has orchestrated several film scores including Addams Family Values, Sister Acting, and Georgia Rule.
In 1997, Mann established the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program in Seattle, Washington to instruct students in film scoring, music technology, songwriting for film, and video game audio.
This program merged with the Seattle Film Institute in 2011 and became accredited to confer a Masters of Music degree in Film Composition. In 2010 Mann was cited as one of the top 10 Leaders in Learning by Variety magazine.