By Chuck Whiting
MCAU Editor
NASHVILLE -- Internationally known film composer, arranger, orchestrator, author and educator Andy Hill will provide insights on composing music for film during the Nashville Composers Association's annual Score-Com Seminar from June 15-16 (Saturday-Sunday) in Nashville.
"Goodbye, Hollywood... Hello World: The Expanding Sphere of Media Music,"
which will occur from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., is expected to draw up to 50 emerging and
professional composers to The Steel Mill in north Nashville for two full days
of training.
Attendees will attend morning sessions
hosted by The Sync Center with insights from leading music industry
professionals on the modern sync world, including prices, processes, practices
and studies. Sunday's session will conclude with a Netflix Pitch Session.
Composers will re-assemble for afternoon sessions with Hill to
learn about national and regional opportunities and hear examples from breakout
composers such as Keefus Ciancia ("Killing Eve"), Daniel Hart
("Strange Angel"), and Keegan DeWitt ("Gemini"). Former
Disney and Dreamworks Music Executive Todd Homme will join Hill for a special
discussion and presentation on Sunday.
All Score-Com Symposium attendees will receive
a complimentary Film-Com laminate with the opportunity to attend film industry business
seminars, a VIP kick-off reception, and a special networking event on Sunday
night.
"We are thrilled to have the
legendary Andy Hill as our workshop leader for the annual Score-Com' Symposium,"
said Geoff Koch, president of the Nashville Composers Association. "Attendees
will gain access to his decades of professional scoring experience, including
his time as vice president for music production at Walt Disney Studios."
Tuition for Score-Com's two-day
symposium is $55 for NCA members and $85 for non-members. Individuals must
register by June 7 to receive a free Film-Com conference laminate. The Steel Mill is located at 10 Quality Way in Nashville.
To register, visit http://nashvillecomposers.org/product/score-com-2019/.
To learn more about the Nashville Composers Association, visit
http://www.NashvilleComposers.org.
Participants for The Sync Center's
morning sessions will include North American Publishing Supervisor Ted
Goldthorpe, Sony Sync Executive Bill Goff, Sync Center Head John Pisciotta, and
Bulletproof Sync Licensing Executive Geoff Sanderson.
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| Andy Hill |
Andy Hill was born in Chicago and educated
at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. From 1987-1996, during the
period now referred to as the Disney Renaissance, he served as
vice-president of music production for The Walt Disney Studios (division),
overseeing music production on a roster of films which included "The
Lion King," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Sister
Act," and working closely with composers and songwriters such as Alan
Menken and Hans Zimmer.
Films for which Hill supervised music under the aegis of the Disney music
department and its music chief, Chris Montan, earned nine Academy Awards in the
categories of Best Original
Score and Best Original
Song for a Motion Picture. Subsequent to his term at
Disney, Hill opened Andy Hill Film + Music under the auspices of Modern Music and
supervised projects which included "Message In A Bottle," "Ed
Wood," "James and the Giant Peach" and "Happy
Feet," winning a Grammy Award in
2000 as producer of the Best Musical Album for "Children for Elmo In
Grouchland."
From 2006-2011, Hill directed the
graduate program in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia
College Chicago. His students have earned music credit on films such
as "Life of Pi," "How To Train Your Dragon,"
and "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" and found work with
such notable composers as John Powell, Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna, Johnny Klimek,
and Javier
Navarrete. In the fall of 2011, Hill was engaged to prepare and
oversee the launch of graduate composition programs, including film scoring and
electronic music production, at Berklee Valencia, the international extension
of the Berklee
College of Music, with classes commencing in September 2012. The
campus is located in the Palau de les Arts, part of
the Ciutat de les
Arts i les Ciencies designed by visionary architect Santiago Calatrava in Valencia, Spain. Following
matriculation of the first class of Berklee degree candidates and a pilot
semester, he spent an additional six months in Spain and Morocco working on a
portfolio of songs with an enigmatic producer known only as The Old Guitarist.
In September 2013, Hill relocated to Belgium to take a post as executive
soundtrack producer and director of international business development
for Galaxy
Studios and the Scoring Flanders initiative, with the goal of
bringing more high-level film scoring to the Flanders region and
the musical stewardship of the Brussels
Philharmonic. Concurrently, he launched Cinemuse VOF as a company
under Belgian law, for music supervision and scoring services within the EU. In
late 2015, Cinemuse, and Hill, relocated to Nashville, Tennessee.
Hill is a member of the adjunct faculty
and an industry advisor to the Masters Program in Scoring for Film and Visual
Media at Pulse College Dublin, a division of Windmill Lane
Studios, and a member of the advisory board for Pingtrax (Musimap),
a Belgian music search engine utilized by scholars, archivists, media producers
and music supervisors. His comprehensive study of landmark film
scores, Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music, has
been acquired for a Spring 2017 print publication by the Hal Leonard
Corporation. About the book, Conrad Pope, celebrated
orchestrator for John Williams, Alexandre Desplat,
and Howard Shore,
among others said, “If you have any interest in what music means in
film, you must read this book.”
