BMI to honor Laura Karpman with Champion Award
Laura Karpman, composer and USC Thornton Screen Scoring faculty member, will receive the BMI Champion Award for her commitment to supporting fellow media composers through The Alliance of Women Film Composers. Karpman, who founded the organization in 2014, has received four Emmy Awards and most recently composed for the Amazon Prime series Mozart in the… Continue reading BMI to honor Laura Karpman with Champion Award
Jon Burlingame chats about Oscar-nominated songs
USC Thornton Screen Scoring faculty member Jon Burlingame was recently interviewed for the NPR radio program Here & Now, hosted by WBUR’s Jeremy Hobson, in advance of the 90th annual Academy Awards. Burlingame spoke about the five songs nominated for Best Original Song, including “Remember Me” from the animated film Coco, which took the award… Continue reading Jon Burlingame chats about Oscar-nominated songs
Laura Karpman contributes to “Mozart in the Jungle”
Laura Karpman, a noted TV/film composer and member of the USC Thornton Screen Scoring faculty, was recently profiled by KPCC’s “The Frame” on her musical contributions to the Amazon Prime series Mozart in the Jungle. Karpman, who is the founding president of the Alliance for Women Film Composers and has received four Emmy Awards, became… Continue reading Laura Karpman contributes to “Mozart in the Jungle”
USC Thornton #1 on Hollywood Reporter’s list of ‘Music Schools for Film and TV’
USC Thornton’s renowned Screen Scoring program has topped the Hollywood Reporter’s list of the “Top 25 Music Schools for Film and TV,” lauding the school’s conservatory approach and focus on music for contemporary media. The article, which points to Thornton alumnus Thomas Newman and faculty member and alumnus Bruce Broughton (’67) as success stories, quotes… Continue reading USC Thornton #1 on Hollywood Reporter’s list of ‘Music Schools for Film and TV’
Lawrence Shragge
Screen Scoring faculty member Lawrence Shragge has spent a lifetime studying film and examining the emotional impact of music in the movies. His successes include two Emmy Nominations for Outstanding Music Composition and composing the score to over 160 movies and television shows, including the award-winning Anne of Green Gables.
Garry Schyman
Garry Schyman is a multi award-winning composer for film, television and video games. His scores for the critically and commercially acclaimed Bioshock video game series have earned him the British Academy Award (BAFTA), as well two DICE Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. He is a graduate… Continue reading Garry Schyman
Christopher Young
One of the foremost talents in film music today, Golden Globe-nominated composer Christopher Young has scored an impressive number of features in virtually every genre. The spine-tingling Hellraiser showcases the composer’s seminal upbringing in horror; the new, techno sound of Swordfish displays his versatility; the resonant, genuine Celtic sounds of The Shipping News display his attention to detail; the heart-pounding rhythms… Continue reading Christopher Young
Patrick Kirst
Born and raised in Germany, Patrick Kirst first fell in love with the fascinating art of film music growing up with Spielberg and Williams. Classics such as E.T., Close Encounters, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List, primarily written for full orchestra and created with the newest synthesizer technologies of… Continue reading Patrick Kirst
Siobhán Dougall
Siobhán Dougall is a California native software developer and composer. She started her undergraduate pursuits with a double major in oboe performance and electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University, finished them with a B.A. in music composition at Carleton College in 2002, and followed them up with a graduate certificate in Scoring for Motion… Continue reading Siobhán Dougall
Jon Burlingame
Jon Burlingame is the nation’s leading writer on the subject of music for films and television. He writes regularly for Variety and has written on the topic for such other publications as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Newsday, Emmy, Premiere and The Hollywood Reporter. He is the author of four books: the best-selling The Music of James Bond (Oxford University Press, 2012),… Continue reading Jon Burlingame