Date/Time
Date(s) -
12/04/2023
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
Catalina Jazz Club
“2023 CCC HOLIDAY PARTY & APOLLO AWARDS”
Please join us at the Catalina Jazz Club on December 4th to honor this year’s Apollo Award Recipients.
In addition to the Apollo Awards, we will have our annual silent auction event to raise money for the CCC’s John Braheny Scholarship Award (please consider donating an item or two). You may contact us to inquire about advertising, donating auction items, or to discuss other sponsorship opportunities. This is going to be an amazing evening you will not want to miss!
MONDAY, December 4th, 2023
6:30 PM Cocktail Hour ▪ 7:30 PM Dinner
Catalina Jazz Club
6725 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028
$8 Parking Garage
Limited Street Parking
Rideshare Encouraged
2023 Apollo Award Recipients
Steve Schnur | Worldwide President of Music & Marketing, EA Games
Laurie L. Soriano, Esq. | Partner, Entertainment Department, King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano, LLP
Advance Reservation:
CCC Members $70 | Non-members $85
Walk-Up Dinner (pay at the door, no prior RSVP):
CCC Members $75 | Non-members $90
Students: $70— must show College ID at the door [contact us]
– No refunds –
Appetizer:
Pecan Salad
Baby mixed greens, caramelized pecans and goat cheese tossed with cherry vinaigrette
Your Choice of Entrée:
Grilled Salmon
With seasonal vegetables and jasmine rice
Chicken Marsala
With garlic mashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables and a wild mushroom sauce
Pumpkin Ravioli
In a brown butter sauce with sage (vegetarian)
Dessert:
Chef’s Choice
Each meal includes hot bread & butter, coffee or iced tea
Please make your dinner reservation by noon on Friday, December 1st, 2023
Reserve your meal with PayPal or credit card (PayPal account not required).
Walk-up guests are welcome but may not be served their first choice of meal. We accept cash, check, or credit card payment at the door.
Biographies
Steve Schnur | Worldwide President of Music & Marketing, EA Games
Steve Schnur has been a label and music publishing company president, music supervisor, professional musician, songwriter, composer, producer, professor, policy advocate and more. He’s changed the game in music, movies, sports, and digital interactive entertainment around the world, while leading the fight for greater tolerance, diversity, and gender equality throughout the industry.
As Worldwide President of Music & Marketing for EA Games since 2001, Steve is responsible for everything music-related – including soundtracks, original scores, trailers, commercials, publishing, and production – for the global leader in video game software and streaming content. For more than a generation, he has curated and evolved music and marketing for such cultural milestones as Madden NFL, FIFA, Need For Speed, The Sims, Star Wars, Battlefield and beyond. His hands-on approach to composer selection and production – as well as his commitment to live orchestration – have earned EA team over 200 soundtrack award nominations. “Schnur has been ahead of the curve,” Variety has said, “radically transforming the industry’s perception of video games from simple licensing opportunities to a series of groundbreaking partnerships.”
Steve has been profiled by Forbes, Rolling Stone, CNN, ESPN, The London Financial Times and The New York Times; named ‘One of the Most Creative People in Entertainment’ by Entertainment Weekly, ‘One of the Most Powerful People in the Music Business’ and ‘One of the Top 20 Power Players in the Digital Entertainment’ by Billboard, and ‘One of the Top 25 Power Players in the New Hollywood’ by The Wall Street Journal.
Schnur’s awards include MUSEXPO’s 2009 International Music Person of the Year, the ACLU’s 2009 Bill of Rights Award, The Guild of Music Supervisors’ 2012 Music Supervisor of the Year, MUSEXPO’s 2014 International Music Supervisor of the Year, the 2020 Game Audio Network Guild Award for Music Of The Year, the 2021 Hollywood Music In Media Award for Video Game Music Supervision, and the 2012, 2018 and 2023 Guild of Music Supervisors awards for Best Music Supervision in a Video Game.
Steve’s work with the Tennessee Entertainment Commission helped create the state’s 2019’s landmark Scoring Incentive Program, and his multi-year campaign on behalf of interactive media composers resulted in the Recording Academy’s 2022 decision to create a new Grammy category for videogame scores. In February 2023, Berklee College of Music and EA announced the partnership – instituted and overseen by Schnur – that created The EA/Berklee NexGen Scholarship. The program awards one qualified woman or non-cisgender composer student not only a financial scholarship but the opportunity to be mentored by Schnur and learn how to compose, orchestrate, and arrange an original score for an EA video game title.
In 2023, Steve was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Score Soundtrack For Video Games And Other Interactive Media for his production of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
Laurie L. Soriano, Esq. | Partner, Entertainment Department, King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano, LLP
Laurie Soriano is a partner in the Entertainment Department of King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano, LLP. She represents major musicians, recording artists, composers, songwriters, music supervisors, producers, record companies, publishing companies and various others in the music, entertainment and digital fields. She also represents a number of non-entertainment brands in their transactions that relate to the entertainment industry. Ms. Soriano focuses primarily on contract negotiations and troubleshooting for her clients and acts as the general legal advisor to a multitude of creative individuals and companies.
Ms. Soriano started her career at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, where as a partner in the firm she served as the Head of the firm’s Music Department and Co-Chair of the firm’s Entertainment Industry Practice Group.
Ms. Soriano has written and spoken extensively on entertainment and marketing topics.
Ms. Soriano received undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (BA in English from the College of Arts and Sciences, and BS in Economics with concentration in marketing from the Wharton School of Business). In 1986, she received her law degree from the University of California, Davis, where she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the UC Davis Law Review and was admitted to the Order of the Coif. After graduation she served as a law clerk to Hon. Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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