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Mark Northam is publisher of Film Music Magazine, The Royalty Report, and
founder of The Film Music Network. He teaches music business courses in
Los Angeles, New York and Boston through The Film Music Institute,
which he founded in 1997 and Los Angeles area colleges. He is a classically trained jazz pianist and composer.
As an entertainment industry author, Mark has written extensively
about how writers and publishers can be financially successful in the
digital age. His articles on music royalty related subjects include How to Increase Your ASCAP, BMI and SESAC Royalties, The Film and
Television Composer's Resource Guide, and The Guide to International
Music Rights Organizations, As a public speaker and advocate of
improved royalty collection and payment systems, Mark has produced
royalties related events including Direct Licensing: A Better
Alternative to ASCAP, BMI and SESAC? and New Royalties for a New Age:
Collecting Your Share of Digital Music Royalties
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Orchestrator Scott Smalley has worked for a wide variety of composers including Danny Elfman, Bill Ross, Basil Poledouris and many others. His credits include "The Insider," "Batman," "Mission: Impossible" and he is internationally recognized as one of the world's leading instructors of orchestration for film and television with students from over 10 countries and regular orchestration courses taught in Los Angeles and New York.
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Veteran agent Jeff Kaufman has worked as a film and television music
agent in Los Angeles since 1986, and was a partner in the entertainment
industries first film music agency - Bart-Milander Associates which
then became Milander, Schleussner, Kaufman (M.S.K.) and Film Music
Associates.
At these agencies Kaufman in collaboration with his partners was
responsible for signing, developing and nurturing such talents as Hans Zimmer, Gabriel Yared, Rachel Portman and Mason Daring amongst others.
By late 1996, Kaufman left the agency to open up his own firm, The
Kaufman Agency, which represents award winning composer clients
worldwide, including Carl Davis,
Barry Goldberg, Dick Hyman, Ron Jones, Hummie Mann, Mark McKenzie,
Peter Melnick, Sheldon Mirowitz, Mark Suozzo, Michael Whalen, Alan
Williams and others.
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A professional orchestral flutist, Linda Kordek's musical career includes performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a two year residence in Mexico City as principal flautist with "La Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico", and concerts throughout Southern California as a founding member of The Sterling Consort chamber ensemble.
Creating her boutique company, The Kordek Agency, she successfully navigated the highly charged and competitive entertainment industry in Hollywood and New York for over a decade. In 2003, she was asked to join international booking agency, The Agency Group, where she created their Film and TV Division. With offices in London, Toronto, New York, Scandinavia, and L.A. The Agency Group is home to mega bands such as The White Stripes, David Gilmour, Matisyahu, Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, Joan Jett, INXS and Cake. Clients include Jonathan Goldsmith (Away From Her), Joe Jackson (Tucker), David Sibley (Music Supervisor - Desperate Housewives), Roger Bellon (Highlander), Eric Allaman (Witless Protection).
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In his relatively short career, composer Shawn Clement's trajectory has been fueled by undeniable talent, striking musicality and pure instincts.
His dark orchestral sensibilities have created the picture-perfect underscore for over 150 feature film, television and video game projects. Clement's music has permeated broadcast television on such top-rated network reality shows as World's Wildest Police Videos, World's Scariest Police Chases (1-9), Surviving The Moment of Impact (2-4), Stupid Behavior: Caught on Tape and When Good Pets Go Bad 1 & 2 (all for Fox Television); plus The World's Most Amazing Videos (NBC), The World's Most... series for Discovery Communications, and on ABC - TV Guide's Greatest Moments 2003, The World's Scariest Ghosts and Are You Hot? He has scored films ( We Married Margo, Last Chance , Bad Girls From Valley High ), network series ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer, American Idol) and video games ( Donald Duck: Going Quackers, Batman: Vengeance, and its sequel Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu ).
Some of the most recent additions to Clement's resume are CBS's pilot The Papdits, Disney's Kim Possible: What's the Switch? video game, and the independent horror film June Cabin.
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