Luigi has officially been accepted as one of the eight composers to join the SCL Mentor Program organized by “The Society of Composers and Lyricists“.
The SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS (SCL) is the non-profit and primary organization for professional film, TV and video game composers and lyricists, with a distinguished 65-year history in the fine art of creating music for motion pictures and television. The predecessor organization, the Screen Composers Association, began in 1945 with such legendary icons as Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Dimitri Tiomkin and David Raksin among others. Current SCL Members include the top creative professionals whose experience and expertise is focused on many of the creative, technological, legal, newsworthy and pressing issues of the film/television/game music industry today. It’s impossible to list all the composers who are now members of SCL, but, among the others, we like to remember: Craig Armstrong, Marco Beltrami, Alf Clausen, George S. Clinton, Bill Conti, Alexandre Desplat, Ramin Djawadi, Patrick Doyle, James Newton Howard, Quincy Jones, Dario Marianelli, Alan Menken, Thomas Newman, Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Young, Hans Zimmer.
The SCL MENTOR PROGRAM is designed for only eight composers of underscore for film, television and video games. During the course of the three month program, the eight participants (four in the Fall term, four in the Spring term) have the opportunity to interface extensively with working film and television composers who generously volunteer their time and expertise to introduce the interns to the profession of film scoring. Previous shows observed have included: the STAR TREK series, JAG, THE SIMPSONS, and SEVENTH HEAVEN and various films. Activities include sitting in on many recording sessions; meetings with major agents, music supervisors and performing rights societies; and spending time one-on-one with one of our mentor composers (including orchestrating and composing practice exercises from the sessions which have been observed).
SCL Mentor Program Director Christopher Farrell has just called Luigi to tell him that the audio and video material he sent for the application earned him one of the four positions available for the Fall term, from September 1st to December 15th. The composers selected for the SCL Mentor Program will be officially announced during the next days on the SCL website.
Watch a VIDEO where composer Alan Silvestri, SCL Advisory Board Member, talks about the SCL.