SoundTrack_Cologne Music Conference Highlights TV Composers

Composers of Sherlock, The Same Sky, Line of Duty and The X-Files will be featured on August 26 at SoundTrack_Cologne 14.

SoundTrack_Cologne, Germany’s largest music conference, will feature several award-winning composers on Saturday, August 26. Included in the lineup are Mark Snow (The X-Files) and Michael Price (Sherlock). Carly Paradis (BBC’s Line of Duty) and Walter Mair (The Same Sky) round out the lineup. SoundTrack_Cologne provides a forum for composers across film, television, and video games. It has been held annually since 2004.

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Here is the official press release.

This year, Saturday August 26^th is dedicated to TV series at the SoundTrack_Cologne Music Conference. The four illustrious guests draw a line from horror classics to innovative TV shows. The guests are Mark Snow (The X-Files), Michael Price (Sherlock), Carly Paradis (Line of Duty) and Walter Mair (The Same Sky).

Mark Snow is one of the most successful and experienced American composers for TV and Film – he scored more than 1,100 episodes of television, including 200 episodes of The X-Files. He started his career as a TV and film composer in the 1970s. Snow’s scores are nothing less than classics. Besides The X-Files, he also composed for Smallville, One Tree Hill, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch and Hart to Hart. Less known is his long-term collaboration with the New Wave-legend Alain Resnais. Snow wrote the music for his last four movies Private Fears in Public Places, Wild Grass, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet and Life of Riley. Over the course of his career, he has been nominated for 18 EMMY Awards and for a CÉSAR for “Private Fears in Public Places” (“Coeurs”), directed by Alain Resnais.

Michael Price is one of UK’s most sought after composers. He is winner of an EMMY Award and a Royal Television Award. “Contemporary, witty and thrilling as rarely seen in European TV”, the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote about the BBC series Sherlock – whose success is partially due to the music of Michael Price and David Arnold. Other recent TV projects include the crime drama Unforgotten and the ITV action adventure Jekyll & Hyde. Prior to achieving acclaim as a composer, Michael enjoyed significant achievements as a music editor on a number of blockbuster films such as The Lord of the Rings.

The London-based Carly Paradis composed for the RTS winning and BAFTA nominated series Line of Duty for BBC, now in its 4^th season. She also wrote the music for the BBC adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Her music has been used in trailers for the series True Detective, Homeland and the motion picture Hugo by Martin Scorsese. She also tours as a pianist with Clint Mansell and releases her own music, including the album Hearts To Symphony.

Walter Mair is an award-winning Austrian composer living and working in London. At SoundTrack_Cologne he is going to talk about his work on Oliver Hirschbiegel’s international cold war mini-series The Same Sky. He will be joined by Kai Schoormann, who supervises fictional programmes in the main editorial office of the TV station ZDF, that co-produced the series. Mair composes for film and video games, his latest projects include Universal Pictures’ documentary feature Ronaldo, the drama 3 Way Junction (starring Tom Sturridge) and the upcoming romantic drama Lucid by Adam Morse.

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SoundTrack_Cologne 14
Programme, accreditation and tickets:
www.soundtrackcologne.de
www.facebook.com/soundtrackcologne
Full accreditation: 100,00 Euro
Student full accreditation: 40,00 Euro
Student groups: 25,00 Euro p.p.
(please contact: akkreditierung@televisor.de)
Day pass: 50,00 Euro
Day pass student: 30,00 Euro
Film programme See The Sound and SoundTrack_Cologne public events
Single tickets: 7,00 Euro
Reduced admission: 5,00 Euro
Press accreditation: presse@soundtrackcologne.de
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SoundTrack_Cologne 14
is sponsored by (as per June 2017):
Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie, Industrie, Mittelstand und Handwerk des Landes NRW, Stadt Köln, Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW, Film und Medienstiftung NRW, Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien
is supported by:
WDR Funkhausorchester, Chaussee Soundvision, OrchestralTools, Steinberg, mediamusic e.V, WIFT Women in Film and Television Germany, Cinema Musica, Composers Club e.V., DEFKOM, FilmTonArt, choices, c/o pop