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Seminar: Scoring for Cinema
March 15, 2019 @ 4:00 pm
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What makes an effective score? What gear and software are essential to have in order to craft the vision for the scene? How do you break into the business and pursue opportunities? Join Inwood Art Works for a seminar on Scoring for Cinema to hear how industry professionals tackle these questions and more on Friday, March 15 at 4pm. Q&A will follow.
Hosted by Jonathan Bell. Panel featuring Ronan Coleman, Joel Diamond, Michael Patterson, and James Sizemore.
Ronan Coleman
Ronan Coleman is a New York based Irish film and TV composer. Recent work includes the score to award winning documentary feature “The Mind Of Mark DeFriest”, Joint Winner Best Documentary Feature Foyle Film Festival 2015, Winner Best Documentary Feature LSFF 2014, Winner Audience Favorite NIFF 2014, Winner Best Florida Feature KWFF 2014, currently available on Showtime (USA) and at DeFriest.com.
He created the atmospheric score to the gripping docudrama ‘Waterloo’s Warriors’, Winner Intermedia Globe Gold at Hamburg’s World Media Festival 2016 and Finalist New York Festivals Awards International TV and Films 2016, that recounts the crucial role of Celts in Wellington’s victory over Napoleon (TG4 Éire, BBC 2 UK).
Coleman composes, produces and supervises music for television, advertising and independent feature films.”
Joel Diamond
Based in New York City, Joel Diamond has been noteworthy music-career wise for an extraordinary array of eclectic choices and influences.
Selected by Variety as one of “20 Creatives to Watch,” Diamond created the score for the feature film “The Believer” (written and directed by Henry Bean, starring Ryan Gosling, Winner of the Feature Film Competition for Drama at Sundance 2001. He also received an AFI award for his work on that film.
Diamond has scored more than 50 films, including dramas, comedies, documentaries, and cartoons.
His music career includes diverse experiences as a composer, arranger, producer and performer of both ‘serious’ and contemporary music.
He is adept with Eastern as well as an American repertoires. His choices are typically avant garde, both as performer and composer. The fusion of traditional orchestral and contemporary electronica create a striking film-music style.
Diamond is currently scoring a feature written by Sean O’Conner, “Imitate the Sun” (working title).
Michael Patterson
Michael Patterson is a Grammy (2010) and Emmy Award winning composer. He currently lives in Manhattan. Michael’s creative output is vast including commissions and concert work for the London Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Trombone Choir, Ernest Bloch Chamber Ensemble, NYRO (New York Repertory Orchestra) and the Debussy Trio, notable are the String Quartet No.1 recently premiered by the New Hollywood String Quartet in April, 2015, Three Pieces for Solo Violin for Judy Kang, Catching Light, for The Ariel Quartet, Strange Beauty for Miranda Cuckson, Samvaad, for pianist Antoinette Perry, Parallel Forms for the award winning trombone quartet Novus and Psalm for String Orchestra and Saxophone, premiered by Eddie Daniels and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. And his Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra, composed for artist Rick VanMatre, which received several American performances in 2010/11 and was premiered in China in June, 2012. Mike’s arrangements and original compositions have been performed by jazz legends Hank Jones, Woody Shaw, Bob Shepherd, Roland Hanna, Eddie Daniels, Marc Copland and Phil Woods. Also, his characteristically luscious film and television scores have been heard on The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, over fifty episodes of J.A.G. (CBS-TV), Tiny Toon Adventures with Steven Spielberg, and the Lucasfilms’ feature, Radioland Murders. His association with and mentorship by Leonard Rosenman can be heard in his remarkable orchestration of the feature film Jurij.
Recent recordings featuring Patterson as producer, arranger, and composer on the IPO record label include One More: The Music of Thad Jones, Vol. I; One More: The Summary, The Music of Thad Jones, Vol. II; Mean What You Say and Homecoming with Eddie Daniels; Our Delight, Moody 4A and Moody 4B (Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album) featuring jazz legends Hank Jones and James Moody. Other recordings include “Concierti” with jazz legend Gene Bertoncini, and various pieces for the Marc Copland Trio with the Silesian String Quartet (Poland). In 2008 Michael was a featured artist as part of the MOSA concert subscription series in New York. His Line Drawings appears on James Noye’s 2012 recording Imaginings. He has recently recorded a jazz/chamber music CD featuring artists Marc Copland, Sara Caswell and Gene Bertoncini and Judy Kang. Recent compositions include Short Stories for woodwind quintet, Catching Light for soprano sax and concert organ, Ave` for flute and piano, and Five Poems from the Japanese for alto voice, piano, alto flute and harp. His most recent compositon (2015) is Five Scenes from Alphaville, commissioned by the New Third Stream Quartet and premiered at the SaxOpen International Saxophone Conference in Strasbourg, France. His String Quartet No.1 Was premiered by the New Hollywood String Quartet in April, 2015 and his latest recording project is The Music of Cole Porter, featuring Calabria Foti with Eddie Daniels.
He currently teaches composition/film scoring at New York University. Michael is a resident artist, film scoring and composition faculty at NYU and has been a guest artist for the past 10 years at the annual ASCAP/NYU Film Scoring Seminar. He received an MM from the Eastman School of Music (’80) and a BM from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and his composition/piano teachers have included Felix Labunski, Paul Cooper, Manny Albam, Rayburn Wright, Bill Dobbins, Antoinette Perry and Leonard Rosenman.
James Sizemore
James Sizemore is a composer, arranger, and producer with notable credits in film and television. James’ music ranges from the additional music in the family film A Dog’s Purpose, to adding string arrangements to M Night Shamylan’s dark film Split.
James composed additional music and produced the score for the Oscar winning film Spotlight. Previously, James spent 3 years working with director Peter Jackson and composer Howard Shore, orchestrating and arranging the music for The Hobbit Trilogy.
With a versatile background in many musical styles, he has ranged from the big broadway musical numbers written for the recent OJ:The Musical to the ambient soundscapes heard in David Cronenberg’s films Maps to the Stars and Cosmopolis. His versatility can also be heard in Jon Stewart’s film Rosewater, where ethnic Persian soloists intermingle with hip-hop and rock influences.
James has served on the faculty of New York University and the City University of New York, teaching classes on film sound and music. He lives in the Hudson Valley, NY with his wife and daughters.
