Composers
In a career that spans five decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage.
Patrick Doyle is a classically trained composer. He graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in 1975 and was made a Fellow of the RSAM in 2001.
Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat is one of the most coveted film composers in the world today.
Nicholas Hooper is one of Europe’s leading composers, having written and produced music for over 250 films, dramas and documentaries since 1990. He has developed a reputation for producing music that is original, inspiring and always colourful.
Conductors
During and immediately after his time as a student at the Conservatory of Utrecht studying percussion and piano, Ernst van Tiel conducted various Dutch broadcasting orchestras, including the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Metropole Orchestra.
As an internationally renowned symphonic and operatic conductor, Matthias Manasi is currently serving as Music Director of the Nickel City Opera in Buffalo (New York, USA. From 2010 to 2013 he held the position of Chief Conductor of the Orchestra Camerata Italiana in Naples.
Still in his early thirties, British conductor Timothy Henty is quickly developing a strong international reputation both in the theatre and on the concert platform.
Conductor Stephen Mulligan has been the Assistant Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra since August 2017.
Shih-Hung Young, Chinese conductor and violinist from Taiwan, was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and later came to the United States. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music degrees from The Juilliard School and a Doctorate of Music from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Young has been on faculty of The Juilliard School Pre-College Division since 1995.
Noted in the New York Times as part of "a new wave of female conductors in their late 20's through early 40's", Sarah Hicks's versatile and vibrant musicianship has secured her place in "the next generation of up-and-coming American conductors".
Norman Huynh is in his second season as Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Associate Conductor for the Oregon Symphony. In this position he is responsible for conducting family, youth education and specials concerts, as well as assisting for the masterworks series.
Nicholas Buc is a composer, conductor, arranger, violinist and pianist. He studied Composition with Brenton Broadstock and Dr. Stuart Greenbaum at the University of Melbourne, where he received the inaugural Fellowship of Australian Composers Award. He recently completed a Master’s degree in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at New York University, as the recipient of the Brian May Scholarship for Australian film composers.
Matthew Kasper is currently the Assistant Conductor of The Phoenix Symphony and the Music Director of the Phoenix Youth Symphony. Past posts have included Music Director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Chicago Composers Orchestra as well as Assistant Conductor of the Queens Symphony Orchestra and faculty member of the Aaron Copland School of Music.
A native of Lucerne, Switzerland, Ludwig Wicki grew up in a musical environment influenced by church and folk music. As a child and young adult, he studied trombone and became a member of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, eventually expanding his studies to include orchestral and choral conducting.
Joshua Gersen is currently the Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic, where he recently made his subscription debut in February on hours notice to critical acclaim, and for the past five years was the Music Director of the New York Youth Symphony, a post he recently stepped down from in the spring of 2017.
Composer/conductor JOHN JESENSKY began his collaborative career with CineConcerts as the music copyist for The Godfather. Since then, he has worked alongside the CineConcerts creative team to forward the company’s dedication to the preservation and concert presentation of film, TV and media music set to picture.
An accomplished film music conductor with thousands of hours in front of orchestras in Hollywood and around the world, award winning film and television composer John Beal is at home on the concert stage as he is in recording studios conducting to film.
Conductor Jeffrey Schindler enjoys a dynamic international career that takes him from concert podiums around the world to the scoring stages of Hollywood, to the recording studios of London. Whether leading symphonic works of the Masters, multi-million dollar film scores, or cutting edge contemporary and commercial music, Mr. Schindler’s energy and visionary musical storytelling are hallmarks of every performance. Mr. Schindler’s artistry melds imaginative and illuminating performances with expressive and powerful technique, impeccable scholarship, and vibrant energy.
Ernest Richardson is in high demand across the country as conductor, composer, arranger, violist, organizational leader and inspirational speaker.
Constantine Kitsopoulos is a conductor whose musical experiences comfortably span the worlds of opera, symphony and musical theater.
Die Neue Züricher Zeitung calls him “a shining star of the new German conductor generation.” A truly modern and multi-faceted conductor, Christian Schumann is rapidly establishing a reputation not only as an opera and symphonic conductor, but as a leading international force in the contemporary and film conducting world.
A conductor and composer with vast experience in all styles of music, Benjamin Pope has conducted orchestras worldwide including the Royal Philharmonic and Hallé Orchestras, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Berlin Staatskapelle, Tokyo Philharmonic and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, Osaka Symphony, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Ulster Orchestra, Lahti Symphony, Iceland Symphony, Orchestras of RTÉ and BBC, Britten Sinfonia, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, as well as many other orchestras in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Portugal, France, Japan, USA, South Korea.
Producers
A Stanford graduate, All-American Athlete turned creative impresario, Beaubien is the founder of Interlace Media – an enterprising motion graphics company with a specialty of integrating theatrical and television media.
American composer/conductor JUSTIN FREER was born and raised in Huntington Beach, CA. He has established himself as one of the West Coast’s most exciting musical voices and has quickly become a highly sought-after conductor and producer of film music concerts around the world.
CineConcerts Staff Listing
Justin Freer President/Founder/Producer
Brady Beaubien Co-Founder/Producer
Director of Production, Jeffery Sells
Director of Marketing, George Valdiviez
Head of Publicity and Communications, Andrew Alderete
General Manager, Nicolas Rehm
Brand/Marketing Manager/IP Acquisition, Ma’ayan Kaplan
Brand/Marketing Manager, Brittany Fonseca
Brand/Marketing and PR Manager, Molly Kossoff
Brand/Marketing Manager, Si Peng
Office Manager, Gabe Cheng
Worldwide Representation WME Entertainment
Music Preparation JoAnn Kane Music Service
Music Editing Ed Kalnins
Playback Operation and Synthesizer Production, iMusicImage
Sound Remixing Justin Moshkevich, Igloo Music Studios
Merchandising by Firebrand