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Sync Session #12

July 21, 2022 @ 5:00 pm 7:00 pm PDT

With

RYAN SVENDSEN

Head of Music, Millenium Media

MODERATED BY CHRIS WIRSIG

SCL SongArts Chair

Thursday, July 21, 2022

 5:00pm-7:00pm PST // 8:00pm-10:00pm EST

YouTube Live Stream

SCL Members are invited to attend this event, featuring 12 selected songs from the following songwriters that will be reviewed by Ryan. 

Ayda Akbal

Melissa Axel

Lionel Cohen

John Hoekstra

Carolyn Hunter

Michael Levine

Bijan Olia

Kristen Personius

Alexandra Petkovski

Devin Reilly

Joelle Sahar

Becca Schack

Ryan Svendsen‘s extensive curriculum vitae includes being a UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music alumnus, assisting with music bookings at United Talent Agency, and artist management at Azoff Music/Live Nation. His previous experience also includes working at Lionsgate, where Svendsen managed the music campaigns of over 80 Film & TV Soundtracks, including the Academy Award-winning best song and score for La La Land.

He serves as Head of Music at Millennium Media where he has music supervised films such as The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard starring Ryan Reynolds, Salma Hayek, and Samuel L. Jackson, Till Death starring Megan Fox, Jolt starring Kate Beckinsale, and The Protégé starring Maggie Q and Michael Keaton.

Chris Wirsig is an award-winning composer, songwriter, and producer. His music can be heard in the Halloween documentary series Halloween Obsessed that’s streaming on Amazon Prime, games like the acclaimed Top Ten iPad game Alien Tribe 2, the comedy feature 39 And A Half, and in TV shows on ABC, E!, History, MTV, Fox Sports, CNN, Bravo, Audience Network/DirecTV, and many others. Recent projects include an LGBTQ+ animated comedy series pilot, Be More Popcorn, two episodes of the web series Civil Disobedience, as well as a charity project with an orchestral cover version of Depeche Mode’s “People Are People,” a project with 36 international musicians and singers.

Apart from film scoring, Chris runs a production music catalog and co-writes with different artists and songwriters. He serves on the SCL’s Board of Directors, is a member of the Recording Academy and the Production Music Association.

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

Registered Attendees will be emailed a YouTube Live Stream link approximately 10 minutes before SyncSession Start. The link will be emailed via Eventbrite.

Attendees may ask questions using the YouTube Livestream chat function.