About Ben Newhouse

Ben Newhouse has worked as a music supervisor and composer on dozens of television shows, films, and stage productions for media corporations including ABC, FOX, MTV, and Disney. He has arranged movie themes, sixties pop music, Broadway shows, and scored for several full-length feature films using Digital Performer.

In addition, as an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music, he taught music technology and production and authored the book, "Producing Music with Digital Performer," which is a required textbook at Berklee and other music schools.

As a composer during his college years at Eastman School of Music where he received his bachelor of music degree, his music was performed primarily by Eastman groups and groups along the East Coast. "Heat", a relentless overture for orchestra, received the Howard Hanson Award in the late 90s and was premiered by the Eastman School Symphonic Orchestra.

Presently, in addition to pursuing a MBA in Entertainment from USC Marshall School of Business, Ben works as a freelance music composer and post-production specialist for the music industry in Los Angeles, Boston and New York City.

Learn more about Ben Newhouse at www.bennewhousemusic.com

About Marc Jovani

Marc Jovani is an active composer and acoustic engineer. He graduated from the University of Southern California's Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program and was taught by, among others, Bruce Broughton, Christopher Young, Jack Smalley, and Eric Schmidt. One week before finishing the program, he was hired to compose the music for the feature film The Perfect Student starring Natasha Henstridge. From then on, Jovani has been working on dozens of projects, ranging from TV shows (NBC, Fox) to films (Tom Skerritt) and trailers. His music has been recorded by orchestras in Warner Bros, East West, and other studios in Hollywood. As an acoustic engineer, Jovani has built and designed the acoustical treatment for different rooms such as David Buckley's and at Wavecrest Studios (Harry Gregson-Williams).

Recently, Jovani joined forces with a team of musicians and filmmakers to create a production company based in both Los Angeles and Spain, which keeps him busy working on both continents.

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About Phillip Sheeran

In his 30-year music career, Phil Sheeran has been a composer, a guitarist, and a recording/mixing engineer, but composing and producing world music–inspired compositions has always been the heartbeat of his work. Phil established himself as a renowned Brazilian-Latin jazz guitarist, co-leading the Seattle-based Brazilian jazz group Beija Flor with vocalist Samia Panni. Phil has recorded 10 CDs (internationally released) and two Latin House Club Mix LPs. His albums have hit No. 17 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart and charted top five in the nation for airplay. On the jazz side, he has shared the stage with Bela Fleck, Andy Narell, Greg Karukas, and worked in the recording studio with Tommy Brieklein, Brandon Fields, Harvey Mason, and Brazilian musicians Nico Asumpçao and Carlos Goméz, just to name a few. He has also received NAMA nominations for Best Jazz Artist, Best Jazz Recording, and Best Electric Guitarist.

Phil works in Los Angeles, arranging and orchestrating compelling, edgy music for film trailers, television, and multimedia projects. His work can be found in numerous productions by Miramax/Disney, A&E, Fox Sports, Warner Bros Entertainment, Sci-Fi, Biography, MTV, and Telepictures. He holds a BFA in music from Cornish College of the Arts. He is trained in classical and jazz studies with Gary Peacock (bass), Ralph Towner, and David Burgess (guitar), as well as composition/orchestration, arranging, and performance. He studied extensively with Brazilian guitarist Romero Lubambo in Rio de Janeiro.

About Pinar Toprak

Pinar Toprak is a composer with an impressive number of credits (27 scores in the last five years), including the 2010 film The Lightkeepers starring Richard Dreyfuss, Blythe Danner, and Bruce Dern. Her score for the film was on the Oscar short list of eligible scores. Other credits include scores for the action film Behind Enemy Lines 2: Axis of Evil, the crime drama Breaking Point with Tom Berenger and Busta Rhymes, the animated feature Light Of Olympia featuring the voices of Debbie Reynolds and Phyllis Diller, and the romantic drama Say It In Russian starring Faye Dunaway and Stephen Brand. She has also written music for the Xbox 360 video game "Ninety Nine Nights" produced by Microsoft, as well as numerous trailers and commercials.

Toprak was born in Istanbul and began her music education at the age of five at the renowned Istanbul State Conservatory. While at the conservatory, she studied composition, violin, and voice, and graduated with a diploma in classical guitar. In 1997, she moved to Chicago and studied piano and jazz theory with many master jazz pianists. She later decided to combine her two biggest passions, music and film, and traveled to Boston to attend the Berklee College of Music. She finished her bachelor's degree in film scoring in just two years and moved to Los Angeles to further pursue her career in film music. At the age of 22, she received a Master of Music degree in composition, and her thesis was commissioned by California State University and performed by the CSUN Symphony Orchestra.

After completing her master's degree, Toprak joined the Media Ventures team (now known as Remote Control), home of the legendary film composer Hans Zimmer, during projects such as Pirates of The Caribbean, The Last Samurai, and King Arthur. After working as Zimmer's programmer, she decided to venture on her own. She currently resides in Los Angeles, working out of her own studio on several upcoming, exciting features.

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