“Tuning Into Television: Building Your Career as a TV Music Composer”

Date/Time
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10/08/2024

Location
Zoom

Moderator:

Sherry Orson | CCO, Star Vibe Group

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Biographies

Sherry Orson | CCO, Star Vibe Group

Sherry Orson is a successful, established Music Publisher and Licensor, having secured music on television shows on every major network, and with major label recording artists, advertising brands, in motion pictures and more. Ms. Orson began her career in the music industry as a Creative Manager during the Richard Branson years with Virgin Music Publishing in Los Angeles. From there, she moved to Universal Music Group as Director of Creative Services for almost a decade, expanding her extensive experience in the fields of music publishing and licensing. While at Universal, she placed songs with major record labels on Platinum artists such as Christina Aguilera, Toni Braxton, Selena, Babyface, Jessica Simpson, Bette Midler, Chaka Khan and many others. In 2007, she joined musician and actor, Steven Van Zandt representing his music publishing company and rock record label, where she was responsible for placement of his roster of artists with major advertising brands: KFC, McDonalds and Fox Sports. Ms. Orson currently represents emerging artists and music catalogs for licensing in all areas of media through her own licensing and music catalog representation company, Star Vibe Group. Through Star Vibe Group, she recently placed and licensed songs from the roster to Netflix, Amazon, CBS, HBO, Showtime, MTV, NBC, Fox, E! and many more.

Sherri Chung | Film/TV Composer

Award-winning composer Sherri Chung has been recognized internationally as a trailblazing composer for film and television. Her music transcends genre, and fuses inspirations—both traditional and emerging—in support of filmmakers’ visions worldwide.

Sherri recently composed the score for HBO Max/Amblin’s animated series Gremlins: The Wild Batch. Previously, she scored Season 1– Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai. Other recent credits include Peacock original series Based on a True Story, Netflix’s feature film Happiness For Beginners, and NBC’s Found. Frequently recognized for her other television credits, including CW network series Kung Fu, Batwoman, and Riverdale, NBC’s Blindspot, and Ava DuVernay’s limited series The Red Line, she has also scored numerous feature films, documentaries, and commercials. Recent film credits include Warner Bros Studio’s Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, and The Lost Husband, the latter of which garnered her a Society of Composers and Lyricists nomination for Best Score for an Independent Studio Film. She also composed the score for The Other Side of Home, which was shortlisted in the 2017 Oscars for Best Short Documentary. Her outstanding work has not gone unnoticed, as Sherri was a 2024 nominee for the IFMCA Breakthrough Composer of the Year.

Alongside her composing work, Sherri is also a pianist, vocalist, performer and songwriter. As a vocalist, she has recorded for films (Sony Pictures’ “65” and the upcoming A24 film “Heretic”), commercials, trailer music, and television (ABC’s Resurrection, CW’s Arrow and NBC’s Blindspot).  Her voice can also be heard on the Netflix documentary series The Keepers (Emmy nominated for Outstanding Documentary). An active member of the film music industry, Sherri also serves as Governor of the Music Branch of the Television Academy.

Erin Collins | Senior Vice President Film & TV, SESAC

Erin Collins is the Senior Vice President of Film and TV for SESAC, where she oversees the Los Angeles-based department servicing SESAC’s composers and publishers including Christophe Beck, Danny Lux, Gabriel Mann, Randy Newman, the Newton Brothers, and more. She helped create SESAC’s grant program promoting diversity in film scoring, “Reel Change,” along with composer Christophe Beck. Before joining SESAC, Erin was a producer, music supervisor, and score supervisor working with clients such as APM Music, Ubisoft, ESPN, Activision, and THQ. Erin holds a music degree from Northern Illinois University.

Kevin Estwick | Agent: Film, Television & Streaming Media, Core Music Agency

Kevin Estwick is the L.A. branch agent with Core Music Agency and was raised in Southern California. He has worked in audio since 1997, and comes to Core with a background in media composer representation.

Jessica Rae Huber | Film/TV Composer

Jessica Rae Huber is a film and television composer who has written music for hundreds of episodes of television, feature films, production libraries, and podcasts. Jessica and her team have produced scores for multiple major studio and independent films and television shows. She has also been frequently recruited to write additional music for other composers across many genres and types of media. Her work can be heard on projects such as Disney’s The Ghost, The Walking Dead franchise, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Outlander.

Previously, Jessica worked as an Assistant Composer and Scoring Manager for a major film music production company where she hired and supervised a large team, coordinated multiple simultaneous scoring projects, and managed scoring budgets for major studio productions. She has since become a highly sought-after consultant because of her proven record of recruiting, building, and maintaining scoring teams and workflows in a variety of settings.

She holds a degree in film and video game scoring from Berklee College of Music, and a degree from Florida Atlantic University in Communications, Women’s Studies, and History. She teaches part-time for Berklee Online as a part of their Master’s in Film Scoring program. Occasionally, she guest lectures about scoring for media and musical storytelling for higher learning institutions, composer labs, and conferences.

Jessica believes in a people-first approach to telling stories through music. Collaboration is the life blood of creating music that connects audiences more fully to their story and humanity. Jessica’s focus is on this combination of collaboration, creativity, and organizational efficiency. This is how great stories are made.

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