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).

Nil’s Timm’s short civil war drama Deserted, which was scored by Jeff Kryka and Mark Popeney last summer, wil 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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