Friday@1 Series: Film Scoring/Songwriting - 6th floor Conference area
Mark Snow: Film and TV Composer
January 27th, 2010
Mark Snow is one the most recognized television composers over the past three decades. Born
in New York, he grew up in Brooklyn, graduating from the High School of
Music and Art (1964) and, afterwards, the Juilliard School of Music.
With fellow oboist Michael Kamenco, they formed the New York Rock &
Roll Ensemble. Among his most iconic compositions is the theme music for
sci-fi television series The X-Files, which reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart. He also composed the score for the television movie Dirty Pictures, the series Smallville, Millenium and One Tree Hill. In addition, Snow has composed music for video games such as Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror and Urban Assault.
Irwin Robinson: Legendary Publisher, Board Member of
ASCAP and Songwriters Hall of Fame
December 16, 2011
Irwin Z. Robinson was the Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Famous Music Publishing, where his
mandate was to grow the company domestically and internationally. Within
eight years, Famous had moved solidly into the mainstream of
contemporary music by streamlining and modernizing its operations,
dramatically expanding its catalogue and activities and moving
aggressively into the global arena. Robinson
formerly served as Chairman of Paramount Allegra Music, the worldwide
music publishing division of Viacom's Paramount Pictures. When Viacom sold Famous to Sony/ATV in 2007, it was ranked as one of the industry's top 10 companies. Irwin
has been an inspiring presence for faculty and students in Steinhardt's
Music Business Program for a number of years, and for this week's
conversation with Phil Galdston, he shared the breadth of his unique
historical perspective of the industry with our graduate songwriters and film scoring majors.
Richard Stumpf: President of Imagem Music USA
November 11, 2011
Richard Stumpf is
currently the President of Imagem Music, US, a Dutch owned company
controlling publishing from renowned brands such as Rodgers &
Hammerstein, Boosey & Hawkes, Zomba, Irving Berlin and Rondor. Richard oversees
the growth and management of the Imagem Music US publishing division.
Prior to Imagem, he served as Senior VP of Licensing for Cherry Lane
Publishing, then the largest independent publishing company, overseeing
such catalogues as Dreamworks and Elvis Presley. Stumpf has worked with
a wide range of artists, now including Phil Collins and contemporary
stars like Vampire Weekend and Temper Trap. He brought an experienced
and focused sensibility to his critiques of our student's songs.
Kurt Elling: Grammy-winning Jazz Vocalist
November 9, 2011
Kurt Elling is among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. He has been named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association numerous times over the past ten years, and has been the perennial winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll. A Grammy winner, and every record he has recorded has been Grammy nominated. Elling’s rich baritone spans four octaves and features both astonishing technical mastery and emotional depth. His command of rhythm, texture, phrasing, and dynamics is more like a virtuoso jazz instrumentalist than a vocalist. His repertoire includes original compositions and modern interpretations of standards, all of which are springboards for inspired improvisation, scatting,
spoken word, and poetry. His conversation with Phil Galdston was
enlightening in terms of Elling's focus on his creative process and in
envisioning the developing of a career as a performer.
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