Studio Soundtracks – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

On this month’s episode of Studio Soundtracks, host Chandler Poling is joined by guests Trygge Toven and Adam Blackstone.

TRYGGE TOVEN

Trygge Toven is a highly sought-after Emmy nominated music supervisor who has shaped the musical identity of some of Hollywood’s biggest films, including Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name! and Always Be My Maybe, Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, the Paramount box office hit Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie, and oversaw the music for the acclaimed Knives Out. Most recently, Trygge collaborated with Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy on Amazon’s critically acclaimed series Fallout. His exceptional work on the show has earned him an Emmy nomination for music supervision.

Toven also lends his services to a number of high-profile television series, including HBO’s critically acclaimed series, Westworld, Dwayne Johnson’s hit series, Young Rock, and Marvel series Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston. In addition to supervision, Toven served as music producer for The Marvels and on David O. Russell’s Amsterdam.

Trygge’s diverse background as both a music producer and recording engineer play an integral role in his approach; his time crafting music behind the scenes has put him in a unique position of understanding talent from a creator’s point of view. Toven excels in providing his insight and expertise on-set and in the studio to best align creative visions with inventive, enlightened solutions.

ADAM BLACKSTONE

On TV, radio or at a live concert at your favorite stadium, the Adam Blackstone sound has certainly permeated your eardrums. Blackstone is not only a multi-faceted bass player, musician, 6x Emmy nominated and winning Music Director and Grammy award winning writer, he is the musical mastermind behind the live shows of many of today’s biggest artists. This year Adam is nominated for the Outstanding Music Direction Category for 2023 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony.

He has served as the Musical Director for acts such as Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys, Maroon 5, recently cultivated the explosive, Emmy-nominated Super Bowl 56 Halftime Show featuring Dr Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dog & Mary J Blige. With each new endeavor, the artists he works with become family and fall in love with Blackstone’s easy demeanor and standard for excellence. Blackstone’s TV legacy continues to expand as Music Director and On-screen personality. His expertise has shaped today’s biggest shows including NBC’s “The Voice,” the Grammy Awards, numerous BET, VH1 and MTV specials and as the Music Director for the hit Fox show “The Masked Singer,” NBC’s “That’s My Jam” and the 94th Annual Academy Awards (Oscars).

Blackstone was born in Trenton, New Jersey and it was there that he began to hone his craft under the guise of his father, a jazz musician, who remains one of his greatest musical influences. It was in a church playing drums at the age of 6 that his father discovered he had rhythm and perfect pitch. Once his family moved to Willingboro, NJ which has never been short on talent, he picked up bass in high school and the rest is history.

After earning a scholarship to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, it didn’t take long for Blackstone to become engulfed in the soul music pulse that was flowing through the city at that time. Beginning as a session musician, shortly after his start, he was touring the world.

For this special Membership Drive edition of Studio Soundtracks, host Chandler Poling interviews composers Rachel Portman and Jon Ehrlich.

RACHEL PORTMAN
British composer Rachel Portman became the first woman composer to win an Academy Award, which she received for her work on EMMA. She is also the first woman composer to win a Primetime Emmy Award, for her work on BESSY. Rachel is currently collaborating with three-time Emmy nominated composer Jon Ehrlich on the Hulu Holocaust drama WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES.

With over a hundred film scores, other credits include THE DUCHESS, OLIVER TWIST, ONE DAY, BELOVED, THE VOW, GODMOTHERED, LIFE IS SWEET, and THEIR FINEST. Rachel also ventures into stage productions, like the musical LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE and an opera of THE LITTLE PRINCE for Houston Grand Opera.

She has received two further Academy Nominations for THE CIDER HOUSE RULES and CHOCOLAT, which also earned her a Golden Globe Nomination.  In 2023 she received her second Primetime Emmy Award for JULIA.

Beyond film, she’s composed for concerts and solo piano albums, such as “Ask the River” (2020), “Eden” (2021), “Beyond the Screen” (2023) and “Tipping Points” (2024). 

West Sussex-born Rachel Portman, a composer since age 14, studied music at the University of Oxford. Given an OBE in 2010, Rachel is an honorary fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Music.

JON EHRLICH
With nearly a thousand primetime television episodes scored and three Primetime Emmy nominations, Jon Ehrlich is a highly accomplished composer with a prolific list of scoring credits encompassing a broad range of projects. He is currently collaborating with Academy Award winning composer Rachel Portman on Hulu’s Holocaust series WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES.

Notably nominated for Emmys for his work on HOUSE, M.D., ROAR and THE AGENCY, Ehrlich’s diverse credits also include winning Best Music in a Feature Film at the Nashville Film Festival for ASK ME ANYTHING. Jon’s extensive repertoire encompasses projects like GOLIATH, PARENTHOOD, and WHITE COLLAR, amongst many others.

A Yale University graduate, Jon is also a founder of Qwire, a collaborative, cloud based, web platform that streamlines workflows across every aspect of the music to picture ecosystem, while managing music assets and all associated music metadata. 

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Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

KAY HANLEY

Kay Hanley is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning songwriter for TV animation, music copyright advocate/activist with Songwriters Of North America, singer of Boston-based rock band Letters To Cleo

Hanley began her career in music as the lead singer of Boston-based alternative rock band Letters to Cleo, releasing 3 acclaimed albums between 1990-2000, and spawning such hits as Awake and Here and Now.

In 2002, Hanley released her first full length solo album, Cherry Marmalade, produced by longtime Cleo producer, Mike Denneen at Q Division Studios in Boston. The record has recently been remastered for a double album 20th anniversary vinyl re-release.

Subsequent solo releases were The Babydoll EP (2005) and Weaponize (2009)

After a 16-year hiatus, Letters To Cleo reunited in 2016 to release new music and embark on several sold-out US tours. They are currently writing their 4th full length studio album.

In the late 90’s, Ms. Hanley began expanding her work as a singer and songwriter into the TV and film world, writing songs for WB’s animated series Generation O, providing the singing voice for Rachael Leigh Cook’s character Josie in Universal Pictures’ feature film Josie and the Pussycats and performing cover versions of Nick Lowe’s Cruel to be Kind and Cheap Trick’s I Want You To Want Me in Touchstone Pictures’ hit film, 10 Things I Hate About You.

Today, Ms. Hanley spends most of her time writing music for animated television, penning original songs for shows like Disney Junior’s hit series Vampirina and Doc McStuffins (for which she won a Peabody Award in 2014), Dreamworks’ Harvey Street Kids, WB/Cartoon Network’s DC Super Hero Girls and Netflix series, Ada Twist, Scientist and becoming a first time Emmy winner in 2022 for We The People. Her latest animated project is Kindergarten The Musical, which she developed with writing partners Michelle Lewis, Dan Petty, and Charlton Pettus. She serves as composer and executive producer for the series, which will debut in Fall 2024 on Disney Junior.

Ms. Hanley is co-founder of Songwriters Of North America (SONA), a non-profit advocacy organization that fights for the protection and value of songs and songwriters in the streaming music marketplace. As a result of her advocacy work, Hanley was chosen to represent songwriters on the Mechanical Licensing Collective, serving as vice-chair of the Unclaimed Royalties Oversight Committee.

TOM POLCE

Tom is a multi-instrumentalist/ composer/ producer and mixer. He has been working in the Los Angeles entertainment industry for over 15 years. First as Head of A&R/ Staff Producer for CBS Records and then transitioning to Staff Producer/ Composer for CBS Studios and currently fulfilling the same role at Paramount Global. Tom spends his time composing original music, producing and mixing. From scoring Crazy Ex-Girlfriend to writing musicals for the Star Trek franchise, Tom enjoys producing, composing and mixing a wide breadth of styles.

A Connecticut native before moving to Boston, Tom studied at NEC and Berklee College of music as a Jazz Performance Major and then became a fixture in the 90’s Boston music scene as a musician and producer, performing as a member in bands and solo artists such as Letters to Cleo, Senor Happy, Loveless, Bill Janovitz and many more.

Studio Soundtracks is made possible in part by the generous support of Spitfire Audio, makers of inspiring sounds and scoring tools for film, in collaboration with the world’s best composers, musicians and engineers. More details available at spitfireaudio.com.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

SONYA BELOUSOVA & GIONA OSTINELLI

Billboard chart-topping artists Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli are the composers, songwriters & music producers behind Netflix’s highly anticipated ONE PIECE live action adaptation of the best-selling manga series in history. Belousova & Ostinelli continue to push barriers whilst retaining their trademark expansive sound with their epic soundtrack ranging from songs to virtuosic flamenco guitar, hip-hop to big band jazz funk fusion, folk to circus, rap to big epic swashbuckling orchestra, featuring pop sensation AURORA, guitar wunderkind MARCIN, and hip-hop artist FLAWLESS REAL TALK.

Belousova & Ostinelli have signed a record deal with Sony Music Masterworks. Two multi-genre album releases will feature songs written & produced by Belousova & Ostinelli with vocals by SERJ TANKIAN of System of a Down, DL of Bad Wolves, heavy metal soprano and former lead of Nightwish TARJA, American Idol finalist SOPHIA JAMES, guitar wunderkind MARCIN, and BELOUSOVA herself.

Belousova & Ostinelli created a sensation with their music from the mega-hit, THE WITCHER. With close to HALF A BILLION album streams, Belousova & Ostinelli’s soundtrack album charted on Billboard’s Top 10 Soundtrack Albums, Top 20 Current Albums and Top 20 Album Sales, and rose to No. 1 on iTunes in every major territory in the world. Belousova & Ostinelli’s hit single Toss a Coin to Your Witcher reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock Song Sales chart and No. 8 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart and became a global phenomenon and a viral sensation.

Some of Belousova & Ostinelli’s previous scoring projects include NBC drama THE THING ABOUT PAM Oscar winner starring Renée Zellweger, Amazon’s THE ROMANOFFS featuring a star-studded cast: Christina Hendricks, Isabelle Huppert, Aaron Eckhart, Amanda Peet, and Diane Lane; Peacock’s SACRED LIES starring Juliette Lewis; THE MIST, Paramount’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel; among other series and films.

Studio Soundtracks is made possible in part by the generous support of Spitfire Audio, makers of inspiring sounds and scoring tools for film, in collaboration with the world’s best composers, musicians and engineers. More details available at spitfireaudio.com.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

ARIEL MARX

An Emmy- nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist, Ariel Marx draws from many genres and often combines orchestral and rare instruments with electronics to create unique worlds of sound. Her scores have premiered in films at Sundance, TIFF, SXSW, Tribeca, Woodstock, Criterion Channel, as well as films and shows on Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, FX, HBO, Mubi, Discovery+ and more. She is a member of the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy, and is a Sundance Film Music and Sound Design Lab alumn.

Some of Ariel’s most recent projects include Disney+/ABC series A Small Light , Neon’s Sanctuary, UCP/Peacock’s A Friend of the Family, UCP/Hulu’s Candy (ranked number 3 in Indiewire’s Best TV scores of 2022), and FX/Hulu’s American Horror Stories. Her other works for film and television also include Utopia’s Shiva Baby, HBO’s The Tale, Shudder’s Birth/Rebirth, Magnolia’s Next Exit, Discovery+’s Rebel Hearts, Amazon’s Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer, FX/Hulu’s Children of the Underground, and Good Deed Entertainments To Dust, among others. As a solo artist, Ariel recently released her solo album Luthier with Node Records.

TONY MORALES

EMMY-nominated composer Tony Morales is known for his sweeping symphonic scores and textural cinematic sound for feature films and television. His orchestral compositions range from dramas and crime thrillers to documentaries, comedies, and animation.

His work includes countless hours of music for television on shows such as Amazon Prime’s Reacher, Eva Longoria: Searching For Mexico on CNN and the NBC heist thriller The Endgame. His latest project is Netflix’s Fubar, a spy action comedy series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his live-action television debut.

Morales has composed music for several documentaries including the Eva Longoria directed feature documentary La Guerra Civil which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival which he was EMMY-nominated for “Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score)” this year. He also wrote the music for 30 For 30’s The Dominican Dream which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and tells the story of young immigrant Felipe Lopez, the “Dominican Michael Jordan”.

Morales earned a Primetime EMMY nomination for the mini-series Hatfields & McCoys (co-composed with John Debney). He is also known for his score on all three seasons of Disney’s Elena Of Avalor for which he received multiple Daytime EMMY nominations as well as an Annie Award nomination. For the music of Elena he mixed various Latin music genres, as well as instrumentation, with the traditional Disney orchestral sound. Tony has collaborated on several projects writing additional music for titles such as Iron Man 3, Fast Five, The Change-Up and Now You See Me.

Born in Southern California, Morales grew up all over the US and now resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

CRAIG WEDREN
Craig Wedren first gained notice as the dynamic, multi-octave-wielding frontman of Shudder to Think. With its eccentric song structures and complex time signatures, Shudder to Think would prove a significant influence on math rock, post-hardcore, and emo. Since the band wound down in the late-’90s, Wedren has released a series of solo albums and related collaborative projects, and his music has become an essential part of some of film and television’s most popular and lauded shows.

Beginning with the soundtracks for the late-’90s films High Art and First Love, Last Rites along with his Shudder to Think bandmates, Craig’s composing resume has gone on to include extensively working with director Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) and David Wain (Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer). Wedren would go on to create evocative, decidedly contemporary scores for cultural-touchstone films and television series including The School of Rock, Laurel Canyon, Reno 911!, GLOW (Netflix), Fresh Off the Boat (ABC), Shrill (Hulu), New Amsterdam (NBC) and, most recently, the wildly popular Showtime series YELLOWJACKETS.

ANNA WARONKER
Anna Waronker is a composer, songwriter, singer and artist. Well known as the front woman and songwriter for the Los Angeles based band that dog., Anna has taken her unique melodic and harmonic sensibility and personal lyrical wit into composing for film and television.

Notable scores and soundtracks include the limited series adaptation of Tegan & Sara’s best-selling memoir, High School (FreeVee), Shrill (Hulu) with whom she co-composed with Craig Wedren, I Love That For You (Paramount+ with Showtime), the animated series Harriet The Spy (Apple), the cult classic Josie And The Pussycats, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and many more.

Anna has also worked in theater as a composer penning the music, book and lyrics with Charlotte Caffey (Go-Go’s) for Lovelace A Rock Opera (The Hayworth Theater, Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and songs and score for a musical adaptation of Hit The Wall and Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Los Angeles LGBT Center/Davidson/Valentini Theatre).

As a singer, performer and recording artist, Anna has produced and released two solo albums and four albums with that dog., most recently the critically acclaimed Old LP (UMe) in 2019.

Recently, Anna has been busy working on the third season of Call Me Kat (Fox) and the young adult mystery School Spirits (Paramount+). Anna is currently working on the second season of the Emmy nominated and Critic’s Choice winner Yellowjackets (Paramount+ with Showtime) with Craig Wedren. The duo write and perform a very unique and celebrated score. For season two of Yellowjackets, Anna and Craig have written an original song that features Hedwig and the Angry Inch’s John Cameron Mitchell and collaborated with Alanis Morrisette on an alternate version of their Hollywood Music in Media Awards winning main title of Yellowjackets entitled “No Return.”

Our dublab DJs have united for a nonstop marathon of mixes and shows to carry you through the end of our 2023 membership drive.

This is a special episode by Chandler Poling, who hosts Studio Soundtracks every 1st Tuesday of the month, 9-10am.

This very special episode of Studio Soundtracks sashays its way into the theme of musicals – specially musicals in television. For years, TV programs often surprise their audiences by having an episode explore the musical genre and have their characters belt out tunes and change up the pace. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Scrubs, this has been a trick of the trade, however this show is dedicated to the challenge of embedding musical numbers into the reality of their shows. THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL explores a 60’s Industrial Musical inside the 5th episode of the final season – written by Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore – and GINNY & GEORGIA had the task of writing a full high school musical – written by Lili Haydn and Ben Bromfield – set within the drama of the show.

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THOMAS MIZER & CURTIS MOORE
Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore are an accomplished songwriting and storytelling team whose work has appeared on screens and stages around the world. On television, they are best known as the composers for the hit Prime Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, resulting in two Emmy nominations and a 2022 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song Written for TV. Recipients of the prestigious Fred Ebb Award “for excellence in musical theatre songwriting,” Mizer & Moore’s stage credits include the award-winning romantic mystery Triangle and upcoming musicals for Universal Theatrical Group and Michael Cassel Group.

LILI HAYDN
2x nominated GRAMMY® winner Lili Haydn is a composer, songwriter, singer, and violinist. Well known for her 6 critically acclaimed major label recordings as a solo artist, and her legendary collaborations with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, and George Clinton’s  P-Funk All Stars, Lili has taken her unique melodic and harmonic sensibility and emotionally penetrating musical voice into composing for film and television with 18 feature films/documentaries to her credit (including ANITA, The House That Jack Built, Sundance Selects’ DriverX), and the hit Netflix series Ginny & Georgia.

Lili is a BMI Award winner, won Best Music at the Milan International Film Festival, and is enjoying the recent releases of Oscar winner Freida Mock’s documentary RUTH: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words, the powerful Netflix documentary Split at the Root, and the record breaking success of Season 2 of Ginny & Georgia.

As the daughter of iconic feminist comedienne Lotus Weinstock, and a graduate of Brown University in political science, Lili is a lifelong activist, and believes music and stories have the power to heal and uplift…important now more than ever. 

BEN BROMFIELD
Ben Bromfield is a four-time BMI-award-winning composer for film, television, and video games out of Boston, MA. A lifelong jazz pianist, Ben graduated Berklee College of Music in 2010 and has lived in Los Angeles ever since. He is known for his score of the Dreamworks television series, Boss Baby: Back in Business, and the Netflix series, Ginny & Georgia. Ben is an expert in animation scoring, having composed the score for the Dreamworks Where’s Waldo? series and Oddballs on Netflix. In film, Ben has made his mark scoring such indies as BOOM!: A Film About The Sonics, a documentary telling the story of one of the most influential 60’s rock bands, The Salzburg Story, a romantic comedy which won ‘Best Feature Film’ at the California International Film Festival, and Borderland, an action/thriller featuring performances by Bruce Dern and Peter.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

FREDERIK WIEDMANN
Emmy-award winning Frederik Wiedmann is one of the most diverse and cultivated composers working in motion pictures today. With over 150 titles to his name in all realms and genres, Wiedmann has established himself as insightful artist with an enduring passion for storytelling. Recently, Wiedmann composed music for Star Trek: Picard (Season 3) for Paramount+, Women is Losers starring Simu Liu, which premiered at SXWX in early 2021. Wiedmann is the composer behind the acclaimed Netflix animated fantasy series The Dragon Prince, which is from the writers of the popular series Avatar: The Last Airbender, for which he earned an Emmy nomination in the original score category. In 2016, he won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of “Outstanding Original Song” alongside lyricist Mitch Watson, for the song “True Bromance” from Dreamworks Animation’s Madagascar spinoff All Hail King Julien. Wiedmann has been a main stay in the DC cinematic universe, starting with his work onGreen Lantern: The Animated Series, for which he earned two consecutive Annie Awards nominations. His success on the series led to further popular Warner Bros’ DC projects such as,Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, Son of Batman, Death of Superman, Justice League: Gods and Monsters, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight among others. He currently lives in LA with his wife and two wonderful children.

STEPHEN BARTON
Stephen Barton’s extensive credits in film, television and video games include Star Trek: Picard, writing the music for all sixteen seasons of Apex Legends; and penning the scores for both Star Wars: Jedi games, Multiversus, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, 12 Monkeys, and Unlocked, amongst over four dozen other projects. The live service games he has scored (Apex, Multiversus) have over 300 million regular players worldwide. Born in 1982, at the age of eight he won a prestigious scholarship to sing in Winchester Cathedral Choir, touring the world and performing with numerous orchestras and soloists at venues such as Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall; and appearing on more than a dozen albums. He began his composing career at 19, as an assistant to Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, The Chronicles of Narnia, Kingdom of Heaven), moving to Los Angeles from his native UK, in 2001

GORDY HAAB
Gordy Haab is a multi-award-winning film, video game, and television composer who has written music for many well-known titles, including Star Wars: Squadrons, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Microsoft’s Halo Wars 2, and Star Wars: Battlefront I and II, among others. In 2022, Haab was nominated for an International Film Music Critics award for his work on the feature film My Country, My Parents, and was bestowed the inaugural “Music City Maestro” Award by the Society of Composers and Lyricists for his ongoing support of the Nashville music and recording community. In October 2022, his music from Star Wars: Battlefront I and II was featured as part of DICE’s 30th anniversary concert series and performed by the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

Haab is known for his unsurpassed understanding of the orchestra as well as his unique ability to blend contemporary and traditional sounds into one – oftentimes conceiving and creating brand new musical instruments to feature in his scores. He has recorded and conducted his music with orchestras from all around the world, including The London Symphony Orchestra, The San Francisco Symphony, The Nashville Symphony and the Hollywood Studio Orchestra.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

Rachel Portman OBE – British Film Composer and first female composer to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score for Emma (Douglas McGrath). She was also the first female composer to win a Primetime Emmy Award, which she received for the film, Bessie (Dee Rees). She has received two further Academy Nominations for The Cider House Rules and Chocolat (Lasse Hallström), which also earned her a Golden Globe Nomination as well as Bafta nominations for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and The Woman in Black. Other films include The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme), Oliver Twist (Roman Polanski), Beloved (Jonathan Demme), Benny and Joon (Jeremiah Chechik),  Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh), Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek), Grey Gardens (Michael Sucsy), The Legend of Bagger Vance (Robert Redford), The Duchess (Saul Dibb), One Day (Lone Scherfig), The Lake House (Alejandro Agresti), Mona Lisa Smile (Mike Newell), The Human Stain (Robert Benton), Their Finest (Lone Sherfig), Belle (Amma Asante), A Dog’s Purpose (Lasse Halstrom), Mimi and the Mountain Dragon for the BBC and Godmothered (Sharon Maguire). 

Her classical work includes an opera of Saint Exupery's Little Prince for Houston Grand Opera; The Water Diviner's Tale an oratorio for BBC Proms; Earth Song for the BBC singers; Ask The River, a collection of pieces for piano, violin and cello; The First Morning of The World for Joyce Di Donato's Eden. 

Studio Soundtracks celebrates International Women’s Day alongside six women working in music for film, television, and video games.  Chanda Dancy, Lili Haydn, Anna Drubich, Taura Stinson, Jessica Rose Weiss, and Dara Taylor all joined the program to talk about the work of six other female composers in support of their colleagues and to champion each other’s work.  Listen to the program to hear works by Yoko Kanno, Jocelyn Pook, Mica Levi, Laura Karpman, Anne Dudley, and Natalie Holt.  You can learn more about women working in film, television, and video games through The Alliance for Women Film Composers - an organization dedicated to advocating for women composers worldwide. www.theawfc.com