Discussions and Demos
- Howard Shore on his score for Lord of the Rings
- State of the Art: Post-Production at Sound One
On a
recent Thursday evening and Friday afternoon, our film scoring majors
were invited to two remarkable roundtables and discussions featuring
Howard Shore and three key post-practitioners in the industry. On
Thursday evening, an intimate audience at the Paley Media center were
privy to a remarkable and insightful interview with Howard Shore, on
his score for Lord of The Rings. In the lengthy question and answer
period following, our students posed eloquent and probing questions
which enhanced an evening that already served as a rare window into the
compositional process.
On Friday
afternoon, Michael Barry, one of the most renowned re-recording mixers
(Men in Black, Fargo) in the feature film industry, invited twenty
students for a two-hour private presentation in the main studio of
'Sound One,' in the Brill Building. In tandem with score
recordings/mixer Lawrence Manchester (Howard Shore's recording engineer
and Steinhardt Music Tech graduate) and the venerable Music Editor
Gedney Webb, they screened film clips, provided demonstrations, and
walked students through the plethora of their creative post-production
tasks. This provided an intimate and detailed perspective that
revealed some of the collaborative processes that undergird
post-production processes and inform a film's final sound mix. It was
eye-opening and it was witnessed under pristine conditions. In the
course of the afternoon, Barry, Manchester, and Webb fielded an array
of student's questions. One of our students commented:
"That was the most relevant and applicable
'extra-curricular' event I've attended at NYU. All three guys were so
interesting and intelligent and helpful."
the 
for the Georgian-American documentary film Misha Verses Moscow, directed by John Philp. A native of Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, George began playing the piano at the age of eight and earned a BM from the Tbilisi Conservatoire. In 2001 he moved to the United States, receiving his Masters degree from DePaul University as a student of Eteri Andjaparidze. He was the top prize winner at the Flier International Piano Competition in 2001.
background as an International Politics major, a second lieutenant platoon leader, a trader associate, and a rock guitarist, his composition style is a hybrid of rock, jazz, blues and the orchestral tradition. 
by the Canada Council for the Arts, who awarded her a full professional artist grant in 2008. Other distinctions include the NYU Steinhardt Graduate Education Scholarship for North American Scholars (2008- 2010 academic years) and the Etobicoke School of the Arts award in composition (2003).
He has scored several films, each with a fresh and unique sound. His recent score for The Ghost & Us, directed by Emily Carmichael, featured a live jazz score combined with a standard orchestral underscore and was featured at the 2009 CineVegas Film Festival. Jacob is the resident composer for the American Studio Orchestra at Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Institute of Collegiate Arts.