WHO KNEW, sponsored by MusicRowSearch and the College of Media and Entertainment at Middle Tennessee State University, will present “The Pitch: An Evening With Music Supervisors” on Tuesday, November 15, at City Winery. The event will mirror last year’s hugely successful Pitch event that featured music supervisors representing television, film, trailers, video games and advertising, listening to live bands perform their material in hopes that a song may be selected for a synch placement right on the spot.
Steve Schnur (Global Head of Music at Electronic Arts), Anastasia Brown (veteran TV producer and music supervisor) and Dawn Soler (SVP of Music at ABC Television) will moderate a panel of senior-level music supervisors, who will also share stories and tips about the types of music they are seeking to place in television, film, trailers, video games and branded advertising.
“Last year when we put on this event, we had an artist (Sonia Leigh) perform and her song received two synchs as a result, said Tom Truitt, WHO KNEW creator and CEO of MusicRowSearch. The song was placed in the Sims video game franchise as well as a TV episode of “Nashville”. The topper was Sonia also landed an acting role in the TV show. That’s a career-defining moment for an indie artist and we intend to help other artists do similar things with this year’s event”, Truitt added.
The panel of supervisors, which includes some of the biggest names in the industry, has been carefully curated to address the five most important verticals for music synchronization or “synch” rights:
Anastasia Brown – moderator: Anastasia is a music industry professional with 30+ years experience in music supervision, Television & film production, publishing, artist management, A&R and music placement. She is currently producing “American Super Group” for CBS and Lionsgate set in Nashville on air this fall and supervising “The Shack” for Lionsgate, due out March 3, 2017. As a music supervisor Anastasia has worked on projects with Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Dove wins and nominations. Credits include “The Shack” (Lionsgate,”) “Hot Pursuit” (New Line Cinema,) “The Americans” (FX,) “The Darkest Hour” (New Regency,) “Footloose” (Paramount,) “August Rush” (WB,) “It’s Complicated” (Universal Pictures,) documentary “For the Love of Music; the Story of Nashville” (Kings of Leon, Black Keys, Kris Kristofferson, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris) “Taken” (Sci-Fi,) “The Darkest Hour” (Regency) and bio-pic “Billy”{Graham,} (Armie Hammer.) As a producer she has developed four television series and two films, including “I Saw The Light,” a biopic on the life of Hank Williams, Sr. (Sony Classics.)
Steve Schnur, moderator: Worldwide Executive, Electronic Arts Music Group. Steve has moved the needle and changed the game in the fields of music, movies, television, sports, video games and digital interactive entertainment around the world. He has been profiled by the New York Times, London Financial Times and CNN, named ‘One of the Most Creative People in Entertainment’ by Entertainment Weekly, ‘One of the Most Powerful People in the Music Business’ and ‘One of the Top 20 Power Players in the Digital Entertainment’ by Billboard, and ‘One of the Top 25 Power Players in the New Hollywood’ by The Wall Street Journal. As Worldwide Executive and President of Music at Electronic Arts (EA), Schnur’s role is to pursue, create and develop the international vision for music in game franchises, such as Dragon Age, FIFA, Madden NFL and The Sims. His hands-on approach to composer selection, orchestration and production of well over 100 EA soundtrack albums has earned EA over 50 soundtrack nominations over the last 10 years.
Dawn Soler, moderator: Senior Vice President of TV Music at ABC: Over the course of her career, Dawn has worked with dozens of major movie and television projects—from TV shows such as ABC’s “Nashville,” “Once Upon a Time,” “Scandal” and “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” She has also worked on classic films including Sweet Home Alabama, Notting Hill, Being John Malkovich and The Big Lebowski. Most recently, she worked closely with composer Alan Menken and executive producer Dan Fogelman on the musical series, “Galavant.” Dawn also produced the on-air music special, “Nashville: On The Record.” She is the founder of the ABC Music lounge and the ongoing series “On The Record.” She and her “On The Record” partner are currently in pre-production on three music series for the soon to be launched ABC3. She is one of the most highly regarded music supervisors working in television today.
Nick Keenan – Leo Burnett, Music Producer. As a Music Producer/Supervisor for global advertising agency, Leo Burnett USA, Nick serves as a conduit to the music business for clients including (but not limited to) Samsung, Philip Morris, Allstate, McDonald’s, Kellogg’s, Nintendo, P&G Always, and Miller High Life. When he’s not finding the right tunes for broadcast/digital content, negotiating deals, and executing licenses, his free time is spent working with a variety of independent artists in the hopes to help springboard their careers.
Michael Sherwood – Big Picture Entertainment, Music Director. Michael has recently placed music into many of Hollywood’s highest profile film projects including “Minions”, “A Million Ways To Die In The West”, “The Boss”, “Ted 2” and many others.
Brandon Young – Activision, Director of Music Affairs. Young is involved with every facet of music in such video game titles as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Guitar Hero, and DJ Hero. This includes working with the development studios on the titles to finding composers for scores, to executive producing those scores, to licensing songs and brokering deals, to partnerships with artists and musicians, and coordinating with marketing teams and advertising agencies for promotional trailers.
Following the panel, stay around for the official after party featuring a full set of live music from Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden and Makuta.
Ticket prices are $10 until October 21; $15 until day of show and $20 at the door.
WHO KNEW is presented MusicRowSearch and MTSU’s College of Media and Entertainment, with support from Dell, The Nashville Sign, Stites & Harbison, Uncle Classic Barbershops, Rough Trade Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, 4 Roses Bourbon, Jammber Music, Anacrussis, WRLT- Lightning 100, Do615, Jive! Printing, Sign Me Up, and Make It Pop Creations.
NOTE: As defined by ASCAP, synchronization or “synch” right involves the use of a recording of musical work in audio-visual form: As part of a motion picture, television program, commercial announcement, music video or other videotape, for example. Synchronization rights are licensed by the music publisher to the producer of the movie or program.
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