Ronald Sadoff

Ronald Sadoff

New York University, Steinhardt School of Education

Associate Professor of Music and Music Education: Composer

Phone: 998 5779
Email: ron.sadoff@nyu.edu

• Music and Performing Arts Professions
• Music Composition

RONALD SADOFF is the Director of the Film Scoring Program in NYU Steinhardt. He authored the curriculum and core courses for the film scoring program. Sadoff composed the score for John Canemaker's, "The Moon and The Son: An Imagined Conversation," starring John Turturro and Eli Wallach. The film premiered at MoMa, screened at the Telluride Film Festival, and was awarded the Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards on March 5th, 2006. The film will air on Cinemax on Father's Day 2006. Sadoff has been featured on CNN's weekend entertainment segments, having composed scores for film and television, including the PBS "Daughters of the Troubles" featuring Angelica Huston and the Oscar and Directors Guild winning film, "Bleach". His theme and incidental music for Public Radio's "What's On Your mind?" was heard thoughout its twelve years of broadcasts.

In a melding of live performance and film, Dr. Sadoff, in collaboration with Tisch School of the Arts Animation Director John Canemaker, have presented an ongoing series of performances of Silent Films with live ensembles for the Film Society of Lincoln Center: "Toons, Tunes, and Trikfilms". With "Disney Legend" Buddy Baker, Dr. Sadoff founded the NYU/ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Workshop, a premiere and intensive training ground, now in its eighth season. In 2005, the Buddy Baker film score collection was donated to NYU by Charlotte Baker and now resides as part of the Fales Special Collections within the NYU Bobst Library. Dr. Sadoff serves as co-Director of the East Coast branch of the LA-based Film Music Society, housed in Steinhardt Music. He has hosted two Film Music Society conferences at NYU, featuring composers David Raksin, Howard Shore, and Toru Takemitsu.

Serving in capacities as Creative Director and Music Supervisor, Dr. Sadoff produced interactive web sites in opera, film music, and the largest live webcast of its day, "Michael Jackson and Friends" from Munich, Germany, in 1999. He served as the Executive Producer for the 2004 Koch International release of an all-Khachaturian CD. In his debut as a pianist, the New York Times wrote, "Sadoff played with a sure understanding of the structural requirements of the music - an impressive, strong, and incisive performance." Sadoff has been featured on WQXR's Young Artist's Showcase and has performed throughout the United States and Europe. An avid proponent of 20th century music, he has premiered works by Prix de Rome composer Kenneth Frazelle, and can be heard on the CD release, "New Sounds from the Village" on the Capstone label.

Recent publications of Dr. Sadoff include a film music bibliography (2003), available for download on the "Film International" site: http://www.filmint.nu/eng.html He co-edited the 2005:1 issue of Film International and the Spring 2004 issue of "American Music". This dedicated issue to "Music and Moving Image," included a co-written introduction and an article entitled "Composition by Corporate Committee: Recipe For Cliche". For the fifth edition of Guide To Research In Music Education (Scarecrow), he co-authored a chapter entitled "Technology in Music Education Research". He was awarded a "Steinhardt Research Challenge Grant" in 2001 and the "Goddard Research Award" in 2003. For W.W. Norton, Dr. Sadoff is currently co-authoring the 3rd edition of "Film Music: A Neglected Art" with Roy M. Prendergast - "Film Music: An Eclectic Art".

The current volume of Popular Music (Cambridge Univ Press, 2006/2) includes Sadoff's article "The role of the Music Editor and the Temp Track as blueprint for the Score, Source, and ‘Scource’ Music of films". Dr. Sadoff's discussion of composer Oliver Wallace is featured on the bonus DVD for Disney's recently released 50th anniversary edition of "Lady and the Tramp".