Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound Announce Composers and Directors for 2019 Film Music and Sound Design Lab

Los Angeles and Marin, CA - Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound today announced the composers and directors selected for the Sundance Institute Film Music and Sound Design Lab, which returns to the legendary Skywalker Sound Facilities for the seventh year.

At the Lab, composers, directors and sound designers will collaborate to develop music and sound for fiction and nonfiction film projects. Workshops and creative exercises, guided by leading film composers and sound designers acting as Creative Advisors, will mentor Fellows to explore sound and music's crucial role in storytelling. As part of the Lab, a live chamber orchestra will perform each composer/director team's original scores. The Music and Sound Design Lab will run from July 9-22 as a joint initiative of the Institute's Film Music Program, Feature Film Program and Documentary Film Program.

We received applications from over 700 talented artists this year and had the extremely difficult job of choosing eight Fellows. We are happy to announce our outstandingly talented, diverse and international group of composers comprised of artists representing Cuba, Hong Kong, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the U.K., and the U.S., said Peter Golub, Director of the Sundance Film Music Program, Working with sound designers and both fiction and documentary filmmakers, we will explore the different ways that music and sound contribute to the storytelling process of filmmaking.

Creative Advisors this year include: James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Ken Kwapis, Miriam Cutler, Marco Beltrami, Randy Thom, Brooke Wentz, Christophe Beck, Harry Gregson-Williams, Adam Smalley, Fil Eisler, Tony Morales and Doreen Ringer-Ross.

Skywalker Sound Designers include Bob Edwards, Pete Horner, Dennis Leonard, Richard Gould, Baihui Yang, Kim Patrick, Stephen Urata and Alyssa Nevarez, as well as Music Editor Jonathon Stevens.

Peter and the Sundance team are like family, were delighted to have them back again this year for the Labs, said Josh Lowden, VP and General Manager of Skywalker Sound. What weve tried to cultivate here is a kind of artists colony, where creatives from different disciplines can escape the day to day grind and come to work together. Our goal is to cultivate new relationships between directors, composers and sound designers and encourage collaboration that starts earlier and goes deeper. We hope that together we can continue to break down barriers and push the boundaries of creative storytelling.

Artists and projects selected for the 2019 Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab are:

Composers:

Jorge Arag n Brito is a Cuban composer and teacher with over 15 years of experience composing, producing, and arranging. Jorge's work with Silvio Rodr guez as a classical pianist and programmer has led to composing over a hundred live concerts with various international artists. In 2018, Jorge received one of Cuba's highest honors, winning the Cubadisco Grand Prize with the Libre de Pecado phonogram. Other honors include 1st place in the Amadeo Roldan Piano Contest (2006) and the Jojazz competition in composition (2008). Jorge currently works with the Lyceum Orchestra of Havana alongside Jose Antonio M ndez, and is working on a concert dedicated to the 500 years of Havana's history.

Gene Back is a Korean-American composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn, NY. His work includes award winning films such as Dear Angelica and Cake, dozens of international advertising campaigns from Mercedes-Benz to Google, and Burning Man: The Musical. A former live member of the electronic/folk band The Books, Gene has worked with numerous acclaimed artists including Talib Kweli and Gotye. He is currently finishing a series for Netflix.

Sara Broshofske developed a strong love for music while growing up in Ogilvie, Minnesota. She received her Bachelors degree at the University of Wisconsin- Superior, where she studied composition and clarinet performance. Afterwards, she received her Masters degree in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College-Chicago. Since 2015, she has been working as a composer, performer, and collaborator in Los Angeles. Recent composing projects include Beloved Beast (2018), When I Leave (2017), and Ready To Mingle (2019).

Ozie Cargile is a Los Angeles-based composer and pianist, originally from Detroit, whose works have been performed by orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York. Ozie Cargile has more than 15 years of experience as a professional piano and composition instructor for students of all ages. In 2011, his choral orchestral work Song for Humanity was premiered by the Boulder Symphony of Boulder, Colorado in collaboration with the 120-voice Boulder Chorale as a precursor to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Aska Matsumiya, originally hailing from Japan, is a musician and composer, creating work for the past 15 years. In 2010, one of the songs from her first EP was featured as the theme song for the Spike Jonze short film I'm Here and won the award for Best Original Music at the AICP Awards. This was the turning point for her career as she realized that scoring films was her true passion. Since then she has scored seven films with award winning filmmakers in all sorts of genres. Her most recent film 37 seconds, directed by Hikari, won the audience award at Berlinale. Right before her two films Selah & The Spades, directed by Tayarisha Poe, and This Is Personal, directed by Amy Berg, premiered at Sundance. Last year she scored the critically acclaimed film Skate Kitchen, directed by Crystal Moselle and starring Jaden Smith.

Emily Rice is a British born composer for film and TV, who started her musical life as a cellist in orchestras and rock bands. Recognised as an emerging talent, she was the first composer to be awar

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