Buddy Baker Film Scoring Workshop



The first post-Buddy Baker NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop continued to present the rich traditions of classical Hollywood film scoring through a myriad of respected composers and orchestrators.

Twenty-two participants underwent rigorous daily sessions that ran the gamut of film scoring: timings, spotting, composing, MIDI-mockups, orchestration, conducting, and recording.

Under the artistic direction of Ron Sadoff, NYU's Director of Film Scoring in the Steinhardt School, and in close collaboration with ASCAP Film Music's Sue Devine, the intense nine-day workshop featured a stellar array of faculty and presentations: Mason Daring (Eight Men Out), Marco Beltrami (Terminator 3), and Mark Snow (X-Files). Composer David Spear taught throughout. John Angier (Yi-Gi-Oh composer) also appeared. Two days of orchestration sessions featured Marco Beltrami and NYU Film scoring faculty members Sonny Kompanek and Deniz Hughes. ASCAP presented two additional sessions, "The Art of Film Scoring," which featured Mason Daring and Mark Snow.

The recording sessions featured an orchestra of top-tier NY musicians, including players in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. The Director of String Performance at NYU, Stephanie Baer, contracted through the local 802 AF of M. The recording engineer, 19 times Grammy nominee James Anderson, was recently named Visiting Professor of the Clive Davis Producing Dept in NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. The final critique session was presented by a panel, which included Mark Snow, David Spear, James Anderson, and Ron Sadoff. The workshop closed with a gala cocktail party, presented in the newly constructed Kimmel Center at NYU.


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