6th Early Career Lunch Hour

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8

12:00-1:00pm PT // 2:00pm-3:00pm CT // 3:00-4:00pm ET

PRIVATE ZOOM MEETING FOR SCL MEMBERS

(LINK WILL BE PROVIDED UPON REGISTRATION)

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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 fifth 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 December 8 is

Getting Credit as a Support Composer – What’s Common? What’s Fair?

featuring Composers Cindy O’Connor & Dara Taylor

Cindy O’Connor is a 2018 Emmy nominee for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Once Upon a Time) and is an accomplished composer and performer in film, TV, and theater. Her musicals include All That He Was, winner of the Kennedy Center/ACTF Festival and published by Concord Theatricals; La Llorona/The Crying Woman (Off-Broadway); 40 is the New 15 (NoHo Arts Center); and the recent Chicago hit parody, Flies! The Musical (Pride Arts Center). TV credits include seven seasons of the popular ABC series Once Upon a Time (with Mark Isham and Michael Simon), Crash (Starz), The Black Donnellys (NBC), and several Hallmark rom-coms. Her feature film scores include the dark comedy Forgiving the Franklins (Sundance), Deany Bean is Dead (Amazon Prime), Red River Road, and the thriller Not Forgotten, starring Simon Baker. Cindy spent four years touring as a keyboard player and singer with rock superstar Pat Benatar. She serves on the SCL Board of Directors where she runs the Los Angeles Mentor Program.

Dara Taylor has emerged as a fresh voice in the world of scoring music to picture as evidenced by her score to Amazon Studios film The Tender Bar, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker George Clooney and her co-score to the Lionsgate comedy Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar starring Kristen Wiig and Jamie Dornan. Her credits include the action crime drama Echo Boomers starring Michael Shannon, the Netflix series Bookmarks, the Universal/1440 animated feature Curious George: Cape Ahoy, the Netflix docuseries Trial By Media, the FX series Pride, the Warner Brothers animated feature Scoob!: Holiday Haunt, the Amazon series The Boys: Diabolical, and the Karen Allen-starred film Colewell, for which she won a 2019 Hollywood Music in Media award. She most recently scored on Sony Pictures/Screen Gems’ The Invitation and Netflix’s The Noel Diary. Dara is a proud Governor of the Recording Academy’s LA Chapter, as well as a member of the Television Academy, Society of Composers & Lyricists Early Career Committee, Composers Diversity Collective, Alliance of Women Film Composers, and Women in Media.

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FREE for current SCL members (click HERE to check membership status).

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