New York Holiday Party

The Society of Composers & Lyricists in New York cordially invites you to the annual SCL New York Holiday Party honoring SCL Ambassadors Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, & Jeff Beal

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

7:00 pm – Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres

8:00 pm – Presentation with live performances

~ Attire: Dressy Casual ~

Benj Pasek & Justin Paul are Oscar®, Grammy®, Tony®, Emmy®, and Olivier Award-winning songwriter and producers best known for their Oscar, Grammy, and Tony-winning work on La La Land, The Greatest Showman, and Dear Evan Hansen, each of which spawned albums that landed in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, including multiple weeks at #1 for The Greatest Showman, which in 2018 was the world’s best-selling album. This year, they won their first Emmy® Award as songwriters of Only Murders in the Building and, as a result, achieved EGOT status, joining a rarified list of artists who have won all four major showbiz prizes.

Additional film and television credits include Apple’s Spirited, Sony’s Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, Disney’s live-action Aladdin, Dreamworks Animation’s Trolls, Amazon’s Harlem, Apple’s Dear Edward, NBC’s Smash, The CW’s The Flash, Amazon’s Pink: All I Know So Far (Grammy® nomination), and FX’s Welcome to Wrexham. Amongst their varied stage credits, they made their Broadway debut with the musical A Christmas Story (Tony® nomination), further adapted into a live telecast for Fox (Emmy® nomination); and won their second Tonys for co-producing Best Musical winner A Strange Loop. Among their countless honors, they became the youngest winners ever of the Jonathan Larson Award and the first writers for stage or screen to be honored with the ASCAP Vanguard Award. In total, Benj and Justin have each won two Tonys®, two Grammys®, an Emmy® and an Oscar® across five distinct projects.

Jeff Beal is a five-time Emmy® winner whose improvisatory method, sense of timing, and sophistication have made him a favorite of directors including Ed Harris (Pollock and Appaloosa), David Fincher (House of Cards), Oliver Stone (JFK Revisited, The Putin Interviews), Lauren Greenfeld (The Queen of Versailles, Generation Wealth) and Rob Reiner (Shock and Awe). His work on documentaries Blackfish, The Biggest Little Farm, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel, Athlete A, Frank Marshall’s Rather and dramatic scores for HBO’s Rome, Carnivàle, The Newsroom, USA’s Monk, Netflix House of Cards, AppleTV+’s Raymond & Ray have shown him to be one of the most distinctive and recognizable composers working today

In addition to his distinguished scoring career, Beal is a prolific composer of concert music. Recent commissioned works include “The Paper-Lined Shack” for Leonard Slatkin, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and soprano Hila Plitmann, “Sunrise” for the The Los Angeles Master Chorale, a flute concerto for Sharon Bezaly and the Minnesota Orchestra, and “Body in Motion”, a violin concerto for Kelly Hall-Tompkins. Beal’s performing, conducting, and composing worlds converged in 2016 when he led the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in the premiere of House of Cardsin Concert, with further performances in Miami, Denmark, The Netherlands (Concertgebouw), and Jerusalem. This symphonic work was recorded by BIS Records on the double SACD House of Cards Symphony, which includes Beal’s flute and guitar concerti, all conducted by the composer.

His latest recording, New York Etudes, is a collection of solo piano works, and has already had 4 million streams on Apple Classical. Beal was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2006, and these compositions focus on the connection of music making, wellness and mindfulness. He has been featured on NPR and BBC3 Radio performing and discussing the works, and has been named an official Steinway artist. Beal has also conducted The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in his original score for Keaton’s silent film The General, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the film score of Boston, as well as the Boston Pops Esplanade for the live-to-picture premiere of Boston. Beal gave his Carnegie Hall debut in June 2024 leading the Silver Nitrate Big Band and Fourth Wall in a concert of his score to The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, presented as a part of Carnegie Hall’s 2024 Weimar Festival.

EVENT DETAILS:

Check-in begins at 7pm

Attendees purchasing student tickets must present a valid student ID upon entry.

Please be mindful of the SCL’s Code of Conduct.

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