“The New Mix: Score and Sound Design in Indie Film 2026”
The Bridge Between Composers and Filmmakers
One – Day Symposium sponsored by the
Tennessee Entertainment Commission &
Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp.
with
Andy Hill
at Ocean Way Studios
Andy Hill
Sat. November 14, 2026: 10 am – 5 pm
with Andy Hill
A focus on current vogue in “textural” and hybrid scores in the indie world
Panel discussions with filmmakers & composers
Analysis of indie film scores
Communication between filmmakers & composers
More details coming soon..
Composers and filmmakers are both invited
Tickets:
Score-Com – special rate: donations accepted
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The Nashville Composers Association, Film-Com, and the Tennessee Entertainment Commission & Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. are pleased to present the special one-day seminar “The New Mix: Score and Sound Design in Indie Film 2026” with music supervisor and former Disney music VP, Andy Hill.
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ANDY HILL BIO
ANDY HILL, Ph.D
Andy Hill is a thirty-year veteran of the film and television music industry, former vice-president of music production for Walt Disney Studios, Grammy Award-winning music supervisor, founder of the MFA program in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College Chicago, and author of Scoring The Screen: The Secret Language Of Film Music (Hal Leonard, June 2017). Films for which he served as executive in charge of music production have earned nine Academy Awards in music categories. Projects for which Andy served as music supervisor include Ed Wood, Message In A Bottle, and James and the Giant Peach. He is currently dean of the Film Scoring Academy of Europe, Sofia, Bulgaria, and director of its M.F.A. program in Music for Motion Pictures and Contemporary Media. His online composer service, Cinemuse Composer Coaching (https://www.scoringthescreen.com/composercoaching) offers private guidance in showreel development and career launch or rebooting
In 2012, after five years directing the masters program at Columbia College, Andy was engaged to oversee the launch of the international MA in film scoring at Berklee College of Music, Valencia, Spain. He continued to teach and lecture in Europe for three years, and developed a “traveling classroom” for aspiring media composers. From 2015 to 2018, Andy served as a visiting lecturer and industry advisor for the masters program in Scoring for Film and Visual Media at Pulse College, Dublin, and has lectured for the University of Edinburgh, HKU, the University of Austria at Krems, and Hollywood In Vienna. He has been a presenter for Krakow’s Film Music Festival and Jan Kaczmarek’s Transatlantyk Festival in Poznan. He is also the author of a trilogy of “metaphysical detective” novels published as the Stephan Raszer Investigations, with his son, Nathanael, the YA science-fiction novel, The Switch (Curiosity Quills 2017), and currently, Ministry (Touchpoint Press 2022). His original screenplay, TESLA, received top honors in the Northern Lights Screenplay Competition.
From late 2015 to 2019, Andy lived with his family in Nashville, Tennessee, where his company, CINEMUSE, provided music supervision and consulting services. He has three times led the Score-Com workshops for the Nashville Composers Association and contributed to On Location: Memphis on behalf of the Memphis Music Banq, as well as providing a lecture series on ‘Film Music for Filmmakers’ at Belmont University. Following his engagement by the Film Scoring Academy of Europe, he returned to Europe and to a new home in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Andy received his doctorate in film musicology from the University of South Wales, Cardiff, Wales in 2020.
http://www.scoringthescreen.com https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0384041/?ref_=sch_int
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