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Summer ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Workshop. More here.
Masters students in Film Scoring must complete either 39 or 45 credits in one of two distinctive curricula: (1) an M.M. based in the Music Composition Program [39 points] or (2) an M.M. based in the Music Technology Program [45 points]. The MM track, based in the Music Composition Program, places an emphasis on composing for Film and Multimedia, including interactive performance, and web-based media. The M.M. track based in the Music Technology program places emphasis in areas such as music editing, sound design, recording, video game sound, and sound synthesis -- in addition to studies in scoring/composition for film. In today's professional environment, composers have opportunities requiring expertise outside of traditional training in composition. Our film scoring students are encouraged to develop an eclectic skill-set, including composing, engineering, music editing, orchestrating, sound designing, and producing. We prepare our graduates for success like no other place.
NYU Steinhardt's Film Scoring program presents a broad variety of workshops and conferences for composers and scholars. In ongoing collaboration with NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' Maurice Kanbar Film Institute, directors and composers join forces, both in classes and presented in such highly visible performance venues as The Film Society of Lincoln Center's series, "Toons, Tunes, and Trikfilms". The annual "NYU/ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Workshop in memory of Buddy Baker" serves as one of the most acclaimed training grounds in the field.
Recent projects produced by the Film Scoring Program include:
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/Two_Timid_Souls.html
http://nbm.typepad.com/screener/2008/05/two-timid-souls.html
In Spring 2008, students had the unique opportunity to compose a collaborative score for the 1929 silent masterpiece TWO TIMID SOULS (LES DEUX TIMIDES), written and directed by René Clair. The score, presented in two screenings as part of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, was performed live to film by the NYU Chamber Orchestra under internationally acclaimed Gillian B. Anderson, a premiere musicologist and active conductor in silent film score performance.
ORPHAN FILM FESTIVAL (2008)
http://orphanfilmsymposium.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html
http://orphanfilmsymposium.blogspot.com/2008/01/music-for-surveillance-and-outtakes.html
Providing original music and music editing services, the Film Scoring Program and the Department of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts collaborated for the 2008 Orphan Film Symposium, in which students composed original music for films, including one depicting on a 1968 protest of Dow Chemical Corporation. In addition, Cinema Studies and Film Scoring students collaborated on a variety of foreign films, providing music informed by culturally and historically based research.
NYU DOCTOR RADIO on SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO
Over twenty Film Scoring students participated in arranging and producing thematic and 'bumpers' for forty hours per week of live radio programming. Based on the Lancome Medical Center theme, composed by Ron Sadoff and Ira Newborn, NYU Doctor Radio can be heard on Sirius Satellite Radio, channel 114.
RECORDING SESSIONS
Film scoring composers routinely compose, orchestrate, and conduct small and large ensembles as well as the NYU Symphony Orchestra. Recording sessions conducted throughout the year, feature ensembles comprised by New York City's top-tier studio musicians and our top instrumentalists. Our recording sessions embody the ongoing collaborative efforts that draw together programs in Music Technology, Instrumental Performance, Jazz Studies, and Music Composition.
FILM SCORING in THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS
The Department of Music and Performing Arts offers a warm, supportive, and collegial atmosphere. Students attend master classes with today's leading professionals. Students enjoy the support of the faculty and their peers. Our reputation, faculty, and location provide students with a unique opportunity to develop as composers and performers and to make the contacts necessary to launch a professional career.
In addition to programs in Music Composition and Music Technology, the Department's internationally renowned programs of study in Music Performance (classical, jazz and music theatre), Music Business, and Music Education provide a rich and valuable array of elective courses for film scoring students that prepare them for an ever-changing music industry and musical climate. All NYU Steinhardt music students also benefit from the extraordinary opportunities available through the diverse offerings of a major research and arts university in the cultural capital of the world, New York City.
Film Scoring: M.M. in Music Composition and M.M. in Music Technology
Dr. Ron Sadoff, Director of Film Scoring, ron.sadoff@nyu.edu
Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions - 35 W. 4th Street, Suite 777 - New York, NY 10012 - (212) 998-5424
NYU Steinhardt - Music and Performing Arts Professions - 35 W. 4th Street, Suite 777, New York, NY 10012