Conrad Pope

Conrad is widely considered the dean of Hollywood orchestrators. His clients include John Williams, Alexandre Desplat, Junkie XL (Tom Holkenberg), and Howard Shore. He is also an accomplished composer in his own right (Tim’s Vermeer, My Week With Marilyn), and the driving figure behind the Hollywood in Vienna workshop and the L.A. Conducting Workshop. He has taught extensively for numerous post graduate programs. Conrad holds an M.M. from Princeton and received an honorary doctorate from the New England Conservatory.

Eimear Noone

Galway-born composer/conductor Noone now makes her home in Los Angeles and has risen to the very top ranks of conductors performing video game music in live concert settings. Leading ensembles like the Royal Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Sydney Symphony, her concerts draw fans from around the world. She is also the first woman to conduct the Academy Award orchestra. Eimear is also a sought-after composer, having written memorable music for the World of Warcraft series as well as for award-winning animated features like Two-by-Two: Overboard and The Canterville Ghost. She is a recipient of the Hollywood Music in Media Award. She has lectured for Columbia College Chicago and Berklee College of Music.

Alastair King

Alastair is one of the UK’s leading orchestrator-conductors and is closely associated with brothers Harry and Rupert Gregson-Williams, overseeing orchestrations for Over The Hedge, The Martian, Kingdom of Heaven and Bee Movie. His credits also include two Harry Potter films, Wonder Woman and Emma. He conducted and orchestrated both the TV series and the three films of Downton Abbey as well as conducting Downton Abbeyconcerts both in the UK and abroad. In 2015 he started working on Doctor Who and in 2024 conducted the two Doctor Who Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He is in great demand as a studio conductor.

Jay Weigel

Multi-talented composer/arranger/producer and Grammy winner Weigel has rendered services to the major studios and streamers, notably including Tyler Perry Productions, and splits his time between homes in his native New Orleans, Los Angeles and Nashville, where he also serves as chair of the Nashville Chapter of the Society of Composers & Lyricists. He has worked with artists like Pharrell Williams, Andra Day and REM, and his contributions to music education have been notable. He is the composer of the New Orleans Concerto.

Catherine Joy

Tasmania native Catherine Joy now makes her home in Los Angeles and has developed a vibrant career as a composer and producer of music for film and television, as well as the founder and CEO of Joy Music House, a full-service score production company with offices in L.A., New York, and London. Her latest feature, Home Is A Hotel, was honored with audience and jury awards at SFIFF, and her string quartet, Her Evensong, had received a strong reception. Catherine earned her Master’s Degree at Boston University and completed the program of the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring program in 2011.

Seth Wright

Seth Wright is a leading voice in adaptive music direction for games and the founder of Wright Music Interactive, a boutique music design studio trusted by Blizzard, Meta, Disney, Oculus Studios, EA, and many more. Seth’s recent work includes music design on Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred, as well as technical music direction on the 2024 VR Game of the Year Batman: Arkham Shadow. Beyond his extensive AAA and VR work, Seth is recognized for advancing the theory and language of music design through global lectures, studio consulting, and industry conversations about what interactive music can become. His work aims to build musical ecosystems that respond, evolve, and elevate player experience.

David Cieri

The work of New York-based composer/pianist David Cieri has graced many of the premier documentary films of our times, including Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War, The Roosevelts, and The American Revolution. He has performed his concert pieces at Carnegie Hall and other leading venues, and his current commission is 84 Bells, a symphony written for London’s Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop, featuring the first three bells forged for Antonio Gaudí’s visionary Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona. His own score for Carl Dreyer’s legendary silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc was released in 2018. David teaches film music at City College of New York.

Penka Kouneva

Bulgarian-American composer, producer and orchestrator Kouneva first made her mark in the U.S. doing music for video games like The Prince of Persia and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. She arrived in Los Angeles in 1999, after studying under a graduate fellowship at Duke University, and was mentored by Emmy-winning composer Patrick Williams. Her talent was rapidly noticed, and she was brought on to score projects for the SyFy channel. She holds the distinction of being the first woman orchestrator since Shirley Walker to lend her talent to major feature films, and her efforts in composer education have been recognized and applauded. Her master classes are widely sought after.