NAMI MELUMAD - ISRAEL
BORN 05 DECEMBER
Nami Melumad is an Israeli-Dutch film and television composer based in Los Angeles. She is best known for her work on the TV series, Absentia (Sony Pictures Television), Miss Arizona (Side Gig Productions), and the Star Trek Short, Q & A. Upcoming projects include An American Pickle (2020).
Nami grew up in Ramat Gan. She attended Blich High School where she majored in music theory, composition, flute performance, and chemistry. While at school, she began developing an interest in film scoring and also wrote the score for a children's theatre play. She played classical piano, flute and guitar. Upon completing her IDF service, Nami was accepted directly to the sophomore year at the Cross-Disciplinary Composition Division of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and earned a Bachelor of Music in composition. At this time, she was composing mainly for documentary films, short-form narratives, commercials and stage. Nami moved to Los Angeles in 2014 to attend the graduate program in scoring for motion pictures and television (previously known as SMPTV) at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.
Nami scored over 130 projects, including feature films, TV series, short films and more. She is the first woman to score a Star Trek Episode (Q&A) and won several awards for her work including the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for Passage (2018), Best Short Score at Fimucité (2017) out 908 scores, and The Marshall Hawkins Award-Best Original Score at Idyllwild Festival of Cinema (2018).
She was one of the 12 composers around the world to make the cut for acclaimed ASCAP 2016 film scoring workshop with composer Richard Bellis. In October 2016 her score to Mindgame was performed live-to-picture by the Helix Collective Ensemble, at the Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. In May 2017 her work New Zealand's Guide To Tessering was performed by the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra. As an orchestrator, she worked on The Little Mermaid and Logic's album Everybody.
Nami is passionately involved with the film community in Los Angeles. She's a member of Women in Film (Los Angeles),a board member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, and a voting member of the Television Academy.
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The Future is Female by Nami Melumad
STACY GARROP - USA
BORN 05 DECEMBER
BORN 05 DECEMBER
Stacy Garrop is an American composer and educator.
Dr. Garrop earned degrees in music composition at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (B.M.), University of Chicago (M.A.), and Indiana University-Bloomington (D.M.). In 2017 she became a full-time freelance composer.
Stacy Garrop’s music is centered on dramatic and lyrical storytelling. The sharing of stories is a defining element of our humanity; we strive to share with others the experiences and concepts that we find compelling. Stacy shares stories by taking audiences on sonic journeys – some simple and beautiful, while others are complicated and dark – depending on the needs and dramatic shape of the story.
She has won numerous awards including a Fromm Music Foundation Grant, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Music Composition Prize, and three Barlow Endowment commissions, as well as competitions sponsored by the American Composers Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Omaha Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, Boston Choral Ensemble, and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
Dr. Garrop has been commissioned by numerous ensembles and organizations including the Albany Symphony, Capitol Saxophone Quartet, and Chanticleer.
As an educator, Dr. Garrop has created innovative programs to bring music to young people. For a residence with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, she helped middle school students compose a semi-staged music production about the explorer Henry Hudson. In collaboration with the Skeaneateles Festival, she designed a series of workshops for elementary, middle, and high school students in which the students learned and created musical works using Hyperscore, a computer program that allows people to write music without having to read music. From 2012-2017, Stacy taught at Fresh Inc Festival, sponsored by Fifth House Ensemble and held in Kenosha, Wisc.
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Bohemian Cafe by Stacy Garrop
Bohemian Cafe by Stacy Garrop
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