In a late Friday evening session the 12 participants in this year’s ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop recorded their cues with Hollywood studio performers at 20th Century Fox’s Newman Scoring Stage.

Variety’s website has been covering the ASCAP workshop with day-by-day updates of events. Read the articles here.

The 20th anniversary of ASCAP’s Film and Television Scoring Workshop has begun. Jeff was named one of 12 international finalists (of an approximately 4% acceptance rate) who would participate in the program. The workshop is headed by film composer Richard Bellis and is held at ASCAP’s West Coast headquarters. The month-long curriculum will include meeting composers, orchestrators, music editors, recording engineers and others directly involved in the Hollywood film music industry.

As a final project, the 12 participants will score a three-minute clip from a recent mainstream film. The composers will conduct their cue in front of a 60-piece studio orchestra on the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox Studios.

Anne Akiko Meyers will premiere Jeff Kryka’s Violin Nocturnes along with Neal Stulberg on piano. The performance will be first on the program for “Luscious Strings,” UCLA’s string studio concert which will also feature faculty and students performing Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings, and Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in Eb Major.

The concert begins at 8pm in Schoenberg Hall. At 7:30pm There will be with a pre-concert Q&A with Anne Akiko Meyers, Jeff Kryka, and composer Paul Chihara. Tickets are $15 general admission, $7 for seniors and students (with ID).

Director Nil’s Timm’s short civil war drama Deserted, which was scored by Jeff Kryka and Mark Popeney last summer, will be among several films to be featured at Hollywood’s Archlight Theater as part of the American Film Institute's “Shortlist Showcase”

Read more about the event, including a full list of the films on the schedule here.

During a ceremony in the Academy Room of Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel (site of the first Oscar ceremony) Jeff Kryka was named the First Prize Winner of this year’s Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Competition.

His score was chosen among 5 finalists, themselves selected out of over 650 nation-wide participants. Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer presided over the judging portion of the competition.

Also in attendance were music and film notorieties such as Leonard Maltin, David Newman, John Ottman, Brian Tyler, John Frizzel, Mark Isham, and Ron Jones.

You can view all the finalists’ clips online here.

Composer Paul Chihara recently announced this year’s UCLA composition awards winners, which included Jeff Kryka as recipient of the Henry Mancini award for achievement in film music composition. The award includes a scholarship and requires the collaboration with a student director on a film project sometime within the next school year. The scholarship is generously donated by Ginny Mancini and the Henry Mancini foundation.

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On Sunday August 30th, Jeff will appear with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra conducted by George Manaham, in an eclectic multi-media performance of Langston Hughes’ poetry epic Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, composed by Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman. The concert will feature soprano Jessye Norman, the Roots, Nnenna Freelon, and de’Adre Aziza.

On January 22, violin virtuoso Maria Bachmann and pianist Jon Klibonoff premiered Jeff’s Robin Hood Fantasy as part of the 2010 Laguna Beach Music Festival. The concert was reviewed by Timothy Mangan of The Orange County Register, who wrote of the work:

Kinga Suto’s comedic short, The D-Monster, featuring music by Jeff Kryka, will premiere at the Director’s Guild of America in Hollywood on Tuesday May 11th. The Red Carpet showcase is part of the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women. The film will also receive a showcase screening at AFI on Friday, June 18.

The 24th Season of Pacific Serenades will kick off with a new work written by Jeff Kryka, commissioned by Ursula Krummel. The work, titled Quintessence, for 2 violins, 2 violas, and cello will be performed on three concerts this week: Saturday, January 30th, at 8:00 p.m. in the home of Joanna Brody & Thomas Aujero Small in Culver City, Sunday, January 31st, at 4:00 p.m. at the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena, and Tuesday, February 9th, 8:00 p.m. at the UCLA Faculty Center. Jeff will be the youngest composer to be commissioned by this ensemble.

Jeff has been hired as composer and arranger for the 39th Annual Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards. He will work with the Burbank Chorale, conducted by Misha Shtangrud in a ceremony that will be held at the historic Vibiana Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, June 11.

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