The SCL & AFM To Present Must-Attend Composers Conference, Tuesday 6/15

June 9th, 2010 by Janice Brown

Calling all composers working in film, television, video games and commercials and those aspiring to any/all of the above: The Society for Composers and Lyricists and AFM Local 802 will be presenting a Composers Conference on Tuesday, June 15 from 6:30 – 9:30PM.

The event, “AFM Agreements: How They Can Work For You,” is aimed at demystifying the process of recording under a union contract from inception to completing, looking at how to record the best music and maximize your budget and your earnings.

NYC-based composer Carter Burwell at Clinton Studios during film score recording on the Coen Brothers' "Before the Devil Knows Your Dead." Burwell will be a Composers Conference panelist on Tuesday, June 15! Photo by Brian Linse.

This Composers Conference, which will be held at the Local 802 on 48th Street (details below), represents an important coming together of composers and musicians interests, and will also provide a great networking opportunity.

Event panelists will include SCL President Dan Foliart, AFM President Tino Gagliardi and Dennis Dreith of the Secondary Markets Fund along with a group of top film, television, commercial and video game composers including Carter Burwell (Twilight, Where the Wild Things Are), Mark Suozzo (The Nanny Diaries, American Splendor), Joel Beckerman of Man Made Music (CBS Evening News, The Today Show), Joel Simon of JSM Music and Andy Brick (Halo 1, 2, 3; Mafia 2). An all-star team of contractors, union reps and other experts on recording music for Film, TV, Commercials and Video Games will be on-hand as well.

If you are working or planning to work as a Film, TV, Commercial or Video Game composer, you should definitely come out to this event. Admission is FREE, but you do need to RSVP to rsvp@thescl.com.

Attendees will get information on where to find musicians; whether to work with a contractor; what the ramifications are down the road; how to sell the idea of a union session to your producer; how to make budgeting as straightforward as possible. There will also be information about additional revenue streams for you, the composer, under a union contract.

The event will take place at Local 802, 322 W. 48th St. Again, RSVP to attend at rsvp@thescl.com.