San Francisco, CA – Five of the top composers in television are slated to speak for the program: Setting the Score: Composing for Film & Television for Sci-Fi/Fantasy at San Francisco’s WonderCon on Friday, April 2nd from 1:30-2:30pm in rooms 236/238. Moderated by Anne Cecere - Director of Film/TV Relations of BMI, the panelists will include Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman, Jim Dooley, Jeremy Zuckerman and Benjamin Wynn.
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman make up the composing duo Wendy & Lisa who have arranged music for hit shows HEROES, MERCY and NURSE JACKIE. Their score album to Nurse Jackie was recently released on March 2nd and is available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon.
Jim Dooley is an Emmy-winning composer of PUSHING DAISIES. His nearly 40 film contributing credits include THE DA VINCI CODE, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and OBSESSED. Dooley is currently song-writing for the film, DOROTHY OF OZ starring Martin Short (“Father of the Bride”) as The Jester, Dan Aykroyd (“Blues Brothers”) as The Scarecrow, Kelsey Grammer (“Cheers”) as The Tin Man, Jim Belushi (“Saturday Night Live”) as The Lion and a soon-to-come surprise announcement of the title character, Dorothy.
Composers Jeremy Zuckerman and Benjamin Wynn are best known for their work on Nickelodeon’
All of the composers will discuss their respective past and current projects, how they got their break into the music composing industry and share some industry secrets regarding composing for sci-fi/fantasy genre television and film. Attendees of the panel also will receive exclusive giveaways. Day and weekend passes can be purchased through WonderCon’s website: www.comic-con.org/
WonderCon is an annual comic book, science fiction, and motion picture convention run by the creators of Comic-Con International and held in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1987. This is the 8th year the convention will be held at the Moscone Center and all of the panelists’ first appearance at the event.
For interview requests or further publicity materials please contact Chandler Poling: chandler@cw3pr.com or (323) 476-1050
