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I KNOW WHAT YOU DID WITH
A 40-PIECE ORCHESTRA
LAST SUMMER

The 2005 ASCAP TELEVISION AND FILM SCORING WORKSHOP Provides Aspiring
Composers with an Intense, Hands-On Experience

Participants and industry professionals gather with the ASCAP staff

ASCAP selected 15 aspiring composers to participate in the 17th Annual ASCAP Television and Film Scoring Workshop, which took place in Los Angeles from July 12th through August 4th. A jury of leading film composers selected the participants from over several hundred submissions received from across the country and from as far away as Israel and the Netherlands.

Initiated in 1988, the intensive month-long workshop program has gained international recognition, and is widely known as a major educational and networking opportunity for aspiring composers. Participants were given the opportunity to record an original composition on Fox's Newman Scoring Stage with a group of "A list" Hollywood professionals, including a 40-piece orchestra, a legendary scoring mixer, professional composers and music editors serving as coaches and mentors.

Partially funded by The ASCAP Foundation, the workshop is free for the 15 chosen participants; however, they are responsible for their own room & board plus transportation. These selected composers are skilled at writing for orchestra and are required to conduct their own composition on the podium during the recording session. Many top industry professionals contribute their time and energy to make this a productive learning experience throughout the recording process ending with a screening of their work on the Final Review Day.

ASCAP would like to thank the following industry professionals: Phil Ayling (President/RMA Int'l); Kevin Bassinson (pianist/conductor's session); Richard Bellis (moderator & mentor); Jay Cooper (Greenberg Traurig, LLP); Randy Crenshaw (vocalist, vocal arranger/contractor) with vocalists Elin Carlson, Linda Harmon, & Gerald White; Sandy De Crescent and Peter Rotter (contractor services/Sandy DeCrescent, Inc.); Endré Granat (concert master); Mark Graham and Joe Zimmerman (JoAnn Kane Music Services); Tom Griep (synth/conductor's session); Stephen Krause (engineer); Maria Machado (composer agent / The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency); Matthew Mebane (director); Mary Parker and Michael Ryan (Mad 4 Music); Jacquie Perryman (FOX TV); Stacy Robinson, Christine Sirois, Bill Talbot (Newman Scoring Stage); John Rodd (scoring mixer); Erin Scully (New Line Cinema); Armin Steiner (recording engineer); Adam Taylor (President/APM) and Edwina Travis Chin (music director/APM); Maria White-Mebane (producer); and composers Steve Bramson, Bruce Broughton, Alf Clausen, Jim Dooley, Michael Giacchino, Trevor Morris, James Newton Howard, Jasper Randall, Jeff Rona and Aaron Zigman.

ASCAP would also like to thank the following contributors for their invaluable support: The ASCAP Foundation along with 20th Century Fox, NewLine Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, The Newman Scoring Stage, Sabron, Inc., The Directors Guild of America, JoAnn Kane Music and Mad 4 Music.

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