Early Career Lunch Hour

THURSDAY, FEBURARY 3

12:00-1:00pm PT // 3:00-4:00pm ET
PRIVATE ZOOM MEETING FOR SCL MEMBERS
(LINK WILL BE PROVIDED UPON REGISTRATION)

Are you a composer for visual media in the early stages of your career?
Are you trying to secure your first feature film, video game, or lead composer credit?
Are you working mostly as an “additional music by” composer?
Are you working mostly as a composer’s assistant?
Have you been working as a media music professional for less than five years?

Join the SCL Early Career Committee for our second SCL Early Career Lunch Hour on Zoom. These Lunch Hours happen every two months, and always start with a Lightning Talk on topics relevant to our Early Career community, followed by a brief Q&A, and then an informal hang in breakout rooms with members of the committee and your fellow Early Career composers.

The Lightning Talk for February 3 is “Beyond the Full-Time Assistantship: Alternative Ways to Start a Career in Media Scoring” featuring composers Esin Aydingoz and Jeremy Nathan Tisser.

Esin Aydingoz is a media composer from Istanbul and an alumna of Berklee College of Music. She has composed for a wide array of projects including animations, silent films, documentaries, TV series, video games, and musicals. Some career highlights are her recent feature Simchas and Sorrows, Amazon Prime’s The Prevalence, a branded short documentary for US Bank, and her shorts The Monster of the Desert and Noor, which brought her several “Best Score” awards. She has written additional music for Bear McCreary on Apple TV’s SEE and Anne-Kathrin Dern on Hallmark’s One Summer. She is the assistant music director for Disney’s a cappella sensation DCappella and has also arranged and produced for other Disney albums and concerts. Esin is a voting member for The Recording Academy, the secretary for The Alliance for Women Film Composers, and is thrilled to be on the SCL’s Early Career Committee.

Jeremy Nathan Tisser is a composer and songwriter whose music can be heard on Disney+, Playstation VR, Oculus, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and more. In addition to his composing work, Jeremy has worked in various aspects of the music department on such projects as Jurassic World, Justice League: Flashpoint Paradox, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Disney’s Oscar-nominated short Get A Horse!, and more. He can also be found playing the bass drum on camera in the famous opening freeway scene of the Oscar-winning musical La la Land. Jeremy was a participant of the 2014 ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis, and the 2017 LA Film Conducting Intensive with Angel Velez, Conrad Pope, and Bill Ross. He now serves on the SCL Early Career Committee hoping to advocate for the next generation of composers.

Lunch Hour and Breakout Sessions hosted by the Members of the SCL Early Career Committee

Silvio Buchmeier
Credits include: Viva Frida Kahlo – Immersive Experience, Druckabfall
First industry gig: Music assistant Orchestrator David Krystal
First composer credit: Monte lato – The Story of an Excavation

Anne-Katherin Dern
Credits include: Fearless, The Claus Family, Leap!
First industry gig: Sample Editor at Cinesamples
First composer credit: The Jade Pendant

Catherine Joy
Credits include: Potato Dreams of America, Naughty Books
First industry gig: Assistant to composer Tim Huling
First composer credit: A Musing

Cindy O’Connor – SCL Board Member
Credits include: Once Upon a Time, The 27 Hour Day
First industry gig: Assistant to composer Mark Isham
First composer credit: Forgiving the Franklins

Carlos Rafael Rivera – SCL Board Member
Credits include: Just Beyond, The Queen’s Gambit, Hacks
First industry gig: Guitarist (uncredited) Without a Map
First composer credit: A Walk Among the Tombstones

Dara Taylor
Credits include: Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar, Little Ellen
First industry gig: Intern for Christopher Lennertz
First composer credit: Colewell

Kenny Wood
Credits include: Gatlopp, Amoeba Battle (VG), Go For It! 
First industry gig: Music prep with Steven Juliani
First composer credit: Oktapodi

Kubilay Uner – SCL Board Member, Early Career Committee Chair
Credits include: American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally, Force of Nature, Big Sur
First industry gig: Assistant to composer David McHugh
First composer credit: Man and Women

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