This week, my Dramatic Scoring class, part of the Media Scoring program in the VCUarts Department of Music, welcomed animation students from the Department of Communication Arts, led by Professor Ying-Fang Shen. The visit was part of an ongoing effort to create more opportunities for collaboration across VCUarts, connecting students from different disciplines through the kind of creative partnerships they will encounter in the professional world. The goal was to connect anima

On October 15, 2024, four of my talented VCU's composition students —Jason Leung, Aniyah Ricks, Austin Sellick, and Myles Black—took a...

On October 31, I had the privilege of speaking about the art and technique of film scoring to the talented cinema students at the...