I wanted to thank Cole Masaitis with my whole heart for his incredible generosity with his time, terrific help and being a team player on a complicated and intr...
Recently I had a lunch with big film/TV composer. He mentioned that Christopher Young went to sleep some nights in a cemetery, right there on the graves, to get...
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Why do we have 1.8% women composers programmed in concerts and 1% women scoring feature films
THIS IS LONG. PLEASE READ IT SLOWLY IN ONE TAKE, when ...
Soon I will celebrate 19 years in LA (Feb. 10th to be exact). I came with total naiveté, passion and .... with ZERO business acumen. I had no business plan, rea...
"Write the music and the rest will take care of itself." James Newton Howard
In March 2012 I was getting frustrated and impatient. Prince of Persia: Forgotte...
I give many lectures around the country and the questions I receive boil down to three core questions:
how do I get a scoring job?
how do I jump a l...
I give many lectures around the country and the questions I receive boil down to three core questions:
how do I get a scoring job?
how do I jump a level u...
I need some good karma today & this week. So I decided to help the newly arriving composers to LA by sharing here an "advice letter" that I wrote to a recen...
Why do we have 1.8% women composers programmed in concerts and 1% women scoring feature films
THIS IS LONG. PLEASE READ IT SLOWLY IN ONE TAKE, when you can.
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I just came back from GDC with a large stack of biz cards, mostly from young composers. I'm going thru them and following up. Many biz cards have the email and ...
All of us composers send communications every day to dozens of people. We ask for advice, for possible work, for referrals, for mentoring, for a listening ear. ...
This past weekend was the most emotional weekend for me, and I wept standing in front of the new building for "Heroes and Legends" thinking about the long road ...
Being a composer’s assistant is one possible path you can take early in your career in order to become a successful composer down the line. Many of the top comp...
