Composing and Music Technology Seminar with Craig Stuart Garfinkle
In this seminar, award winning and Emmy nominated composer Craig Stuart Garfinkle will show, using the actual scores and ProTools sessions from his music from games such as World of Warcraft and Baldur’s Gate, how the contemporary composer composes and produces their scores.
Included will be how he integrates programs such as Apple Logic, ProTools and Sibelius, to create the best workflow.
He will also demonstrate some of his favourite tools, such as The Vienna Symphonic Library, MIR PRO X, Ivory, and a host of other audio toys for the amateur and pro alike.
Finally, he will discuss his overall philosophy of composition and how he uses it to paint the visual image. He’ll touch on techniques such as using point of view, foreshadowing, visual phrasing and visual tempo to create effective scores.
About Craig Stuart Garfinkle
As an Emmy nominated and award winning music producer and composer, Craig Stuart Garfinkle’s career includes work on feature films, trailers, documentaries, multimedia, television, commercials, stage and recordings.
Most recently, Craig was a composer for the iconic video game, World of Warcraft and its recent expansion, Warlords of Draenor (Hollywood Music in Media Award, Best Video Game Score, Nominated for the ASCAP composer’s choice award, among many other nominations). This is a continuation of Craig’s experience in video games which dates back to the earliest Dungeons and Dragons video games.
Craig has just completed composing his 30th film score, the family drama, It’s Dark Here (Starring Illiana Douglas, Bubba Lewis, and William Mapother). Other recent features include: The black comedy, Get Out if You Can (Directed by TJ Martin), the supernatural thriller, Blood Relative (Starring Cristin Milioti, Todd Alcott, writer of Antz, is the writer/director). Earlier this year, Craig wrote the score for the indie comedy and now festival favourite Karaoke Man (starring Bug Hall, Spencer Locke and Caitlin Crosby).
Other recent TV projects would include the VH1 sketch comedy program, Stevie TV. The show features numerous musical parodies of current artists such as Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. Craig performs, produces, and co-composes these songs.
His music has appeared in 100’s of other film and television projects such as NBC’s The Office, X Factor, Fringe, Lost, The Sopranos, and America’s Got Talent.
Craig is maybe best known, however, for his musical contribution to film trailers (140+), often with partner Simone Benyacar (of The Ant Farm). Some of the projects in this genre would include: Red, J.J. Abrams Star Trek, Sin City, the last three “Harry Potter Films,” Vicky Christina Barcelona, Over the Hedge, Spider-man III, HALO II, James Bond, A Quantum of Solace, and many more.
Finally, Craig is a respected film music educator who has lectured at many universities and for composer organisations world-wide, most notably for UCLA Continuing Studies, Columbia College Chicago, Screen Training Ireland, The Dublin International Game Music Festival, The University of Southern California, The Society of Composers and Lyricists, and Ilio Entertainment. In 2011 he received the “Arts Instructor of the Year” award from the UCLA Entertainment Studies Program, where he lectured for 12 years.
