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Screen Scoring

Pete Anthony

Pete Anthony is one of the busiest orchestrator/conductors in the Los Angeles film industry. In his 20-plus years in the business, Pete has worked on over 400 feature films with Hollywood’s top composers, including James Newton Howard, Danny Elfman, John Powell, Marco Beltrami, Marc Shaiman, John Debney, Theodore Shapiro and Christopher Young (The Sixth Sense, Spider-Man I-III, Terminator 3, South Park, Predators, The Devil Wears Prada, Wonder Boys, and Men in Black III, amongst others). Pete brings to his job an intuition for the art of orchestration, an enormous respect for his musician colleagues, and a spirit of collaboration with the composer and filmmakers. On the podium, Pete is known for his discerning ear and quick wit.

Pete also composes music for films and the stage, and has had works performed by the Cincinnati Pops and Los Angeles Philharmonic.

SCOR 504ab

Orchestral Scoring: The first semester of this course begins with demonstrations of each of the primary orchestral instruments within the strings, brass, and woodwind sections, offering special attention to the specific use of timbre, tessitura, range and performance in dramatic/emotional situations. These are combined with practical compositional exercises that focus on the dramatic possibilities of instruments in various combinations. Following the completion of these demonstrations and exercises for each orchestral section, the students compose a quintet-sized cue that is recorded at a subsequent acoustic session. The second-semester class begins with the Georges Delerue Session, which brings the orchestral sections together into a larger ensemble, and concludes with the scoring program's capstone 65-piece scoring session.