Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program
Presents: Michael Paraskevas
Saturday May 3rd at 11am PST
Join us for this free online talk featuring 2015 program graduate Michael Paraskevas
From Masters to Marvel:
Composing Film Music in Hollywood
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Every composer embarks on a unique journey when developing their own career path as a creative artist in Hollywood. Hear Michael share his decade of experience from scoring solo indies to big-budget studio projects and everything else in between.
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Michael Paraskevas is a Los Angeles-based composer deeply immersed in storytelling through film and visual media. An enthusiastic collaborator and nostalgic film nerd, he loves exploring a variety of styles in his music and enjoys working with ambitious artists to share engaging and impactful stories. Most recently, he scored the Disney+/Marvel series, Agatha All Along starring Kathryn Hahn, alongside Christophe Beck. The show’s musical palette is highlighted by its subversion of the traditional superhero sound, its fusion of horror with other recognizable musical styles, and its exploration of eclectic sounds and evocative textures.
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His musical fingerprints can be found across a wide spectrum of genres, including projects such as Hawkeye, El Tonto Por Cristo, Unspoken, Frozen II, This World Won’t Break, and the Emmy-nominated score to WandaVision.
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Texas-born and raised, Michael studied music composition at the University of Tulsa and film scoring at the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program, where he studied with Hummie Mann. Since then, he has worked closely with distinguished composer, Christophe Beck, on many of today’s biggest hits. In his spare time, Michael can usually be found watching Dodgers games, baking pie, or stuffing his face with tacos.
Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program
Info Session/Meet & Greet
Next Session:
Saturday May 10th at 11am PST
Join us for a virtual informational meeting to learn more about our various programs, including our Summer Intensive and our new online evening program, and meet program director Sammy Applegate and program creator and two-time Emmy winner Hummie Mann.
Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program
Presents: Hummie Mann
Saturday May 24th at 11am PST
Join us for this free online talk featuring program creator
Tales from Behind the Tights
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Composer Hummie Mann will discuss his score for Robin Hood: Men In Tights including how he came up with his themes, his scoring process, and what it was really like working with Mel Brooks.
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Two-time Emmy-award winning composer/arranger Hummie Mann has collaborated with some of Hollywood's most celebrated directors in both theatrical and television films. His motion pictures projects have ranged from Mel Brooks' “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” and “Dracula, Dead and Loving It” to Peter Yates' “Year of the Comet”, the children’s film “Thomas and the Magic Railroad” to “Wooly Boys” starring Peter Fonda and Kris Kristofferson. For television, he has scored projects for Simon Wincer (the miniseries “P.T. Barnum”), Jonathan Kaplan (the miniseries re-make of “In Cold Blood”), Norman Jewison (“Picture Windows – Soir Bleu”), Peter Bogdanovich (“The Rescuers: Tales of Courage - Two Women”), Joe Dante (“The Second Civil War” & “Masters of Horror: Homecoming”), Jim Abrahams (“First Do No Harm”) and Richard Friedenberg (“Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas”).
Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program
Presents: Sandrine Rudaz
Sunday June 1st at 11am PST
Join us for this free online talk featuring 2018 program graduate
From the Program to the Profession:
Finding My Voice and Balance
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This talk will reflect on how the PNWFS program helped shape my path as a composer and prepared me for professional life. I'll share insights on indie vs. studio projects and the challenges of maintaining work-life balance.
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Sandrine Rudaz is a composer originally from Switzerland who worked on projects such as FUBAR (Netflix, with Arnold Schwarzenegger), Diablo IV (Blizzard), and Juror #2 by Clint Eastwood (Warner Bros.). She composed the score for the European TV show On the High Seas (ARTE/RTS). A board member of the AWFC, she helps expand the organization’s presence in Europe. She is a two-time Hollywood Music in Media Award winner and a voting member of the World Soundtrack and Recording Academy.