Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

Film Scoring Description

At the nerve-center of practice and theory, the Film Scoring Program at NYU's Steinhardt School offers a unique Program of Study for the M.M. degree. The curriculum in Film Scoring  includes intensive professional training integrally linked to the Music Composition and Music Technology Programs, thus offering a vast range of artistic and academic training and unmatched possibilities for individual exploration and development.  The composition faculty, having contributed to well over 100 feature films and garnered numerous Guggenheim Fellowships, includes Ira Newborn, Deniz Hughes, Michael Patterson, Justin Dello Joio and Marc Consoli. Industry guests regularly present seminars and have included Leonard Rosenmann (Rebel Without a Cause), the late Buddy Baker (The Fox and the Hound), Stephen Schwartz (Prince of Egypt) and Marco Beltrami (Terminator 3). The annual "NYU/ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Workshops in memory of Buddy Baker" includes core faculty member Mark Snow (X-Files). In collaboration with the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Film School, film scores by our students are performed with live orchestra and presented in annual concerts at the Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center, often reviewed by the New York media. In addition to maintaining strong ties to the film industry, Ron Sadoff and renowned conductor and musicologist Gillian B. Anderson, serve as co-directors of the East Coast branch of the Film Music Society. The Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions also sponsors the University of Illinois Press' journal Music and the Moving Image. Gillian B. Anderson and Ron Sadoff are the journal's executive editors.

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