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Event Description
Using a variety of films from the 40s to the present day, Amit will explore the essential elements of how music works with film, how it supports storytelling and the transformational emotional power of music in creating a full 3D experience for the audience. This is an unmissable introduction to the composition, production and editing processes. These two presentations will also include clips of behind-the-scenes interviews with composers and directors who talk candidly about how a score evolves. These two presentations would be of enormous benefit for anyone who wants to attend future talks of film music.
Amit is hoping to present further talks on specific composers and the franchises they have scored for, e.g. Ennio Morricone and the Spaghetti Westerns, Lalo Schifrin and the Dirty Harry films etc.
- Duration: 60 mins x 2
- Online Zoom event: Join from your computer, phone or tablet (a recording will be available)
Meet the Host, Amit Sen
Born in India, Amit arrived in the UK with his family in 1962. Amit gained his first degree in music at Sussex University in 1972 while also attending the Guildhall School of Music where he studied the Viola. Subsequently Amit studied film scoring at the Berklee College of Music USA, and graduated with a diploma in Film Scoring. While at Berklee Amit attended film scoring workshops with Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams,.
Over his 40 year career in music, Amit has composed music for a number of films broadcast on C4, Channel 2 PBS (USA) and ABC (Australia). Amit composed the incidental music for Andorra, a play by Max Frisch, directed by Michael Attenborough at the Falmer Arts Centre.
Amit’s published work includes a series interviews with film composers for Classical Music magazine which included Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Dario Marianelli.
Amit was the Head of Jazz Composition and Arranging at the Royal Academy of Music and is currently the Music Consultant to the London Film School. He also regularly lectures to the postgraduate film course at the Central Film School and has been a Visiting Lecturer on the MA in Composing for Screen at the Royal College of Music.
Amit’s enduring topic of interest is how music works with story.
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