Celebrating TV Music with Composers of Disney+, Hulu, and FX

The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome composers of The Acolyte, Agatha All Along, Andor Season 2, Dying for Sex, Good American Family, and the music supervisor of Paradise to the Museum’s intimate 200-seat Clive Davis Theater for an evening including a panel discussing their creative process.

Join us for an evening of celebration of the original music from THE ACOLYTE, AGATHA ALL ALONG, ANDOR SEASON 2, DYING FOR SEX, GOOD AMERICAN FAMILY and PARADISE.

Composers Michael Abels, Christophe Beck, Michael Paraskevas, Brandon Roberts, Ariel Marx, and Marcelo Zarvos will discuss the elements of crafting their dramatic & dynamic scores for television. Music supervisor Tom Wolfe will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the thrilling yet intricate process of selecting music for television. The evening will be filled with creative conversation around making music and telling stories with melodies and sonic textures.  

After the presentation, audience members will have the opportunity to engage in a Q&A with the panelists, moderated by Heather Guibert, VP, Guild of Music Supervisors.

ABOUT MICHAEL ABELS

Composer Michael Abels is well known for the opera, Omar, and his genre-defying scores for the Jordan Peele films Get Out, Us, and Nope. The score for Us won a World Soundtrack Award, the Jerry Goldsmith Award, a Critics Choice nomination, multiple critics awards, and was named “Score of the Decade” by The Wrap. Both Us and Nope were shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Original Score, and Nope won Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film at the 2023 Society of Composer & Lyricist Awards.

In 2023, Abels was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for the opera, Omar, co-composed with Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Rhiannon Giddens. The New York Times hailed Omar as “an ideal of an American sound,” and named Omar among the 10 best classical music performances of 2022. Abels’ creative output also includes many concert works, including the choral song cycle At War With Ourselves for the Kronos Quartet, and the Grammy-nominated Isolation Variation for Hilary Hahn. Abels’ other concert works have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Master Chorale and many others. Some of these pieces are available on the Cedille label, including Delights and Dances and Winged Creatures. Recent commissions include Emerge for the National Symphony and Detroit Symphony, and a guitar concerto Borders for Grammy-nominated artist Mak Grgic.

ABOUT CHRISTOPHE BECK

Christophe Beck is a world-renowned film and TV composer who has defined the sound of iconic films including Frozen, The Hangover franchise, The Muppets, and Pitch Perfect.

He’s well known for his score to the Golden Globe®- and Oscar®-winning animated film Frozen, the soundtrack for which achieved Platinum status 11 weeks after its release, sold more than one million copies, and reigned No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for five weeks. Alongside his Emmy-winning work on the cult classic series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Beck is notable for his high-profile block buster action features and series including the Antman Trilogy starring Paul Rudd, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, the Disney+ series Hawkeye, and marvel studios’ Wandavision – which received four nominations for best Original score from the HMMA, WSA, SCL, and the Primetime Emmys. His collaboration with acclaimed director Doug Liman resulted in two high-grossing action features starring Tom Cruise: Edge of Tomorrow and American Made. Beck’s catalogue of blockbuster action comedies include the Warner Bros. feature Due Date as well as Date Night and Free Guy both directed by Shawn Levy.

Most recently he scored Doug Liman’s Roadhouse starring Jake Gyllenhaal which premiered at SXSW and Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted. Up next for Beck is the highly anticipated Marvel series: Agatha All Along starring Kathryn Hahn. He also wrote music for 20th century’s Up Here a musical rom com developed by academy award winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.

ABOUT MICHAEL PARASKEVAS

Michael Paraskevas is a Los Angeles-based composer deeply immersed in storytelling through film and visual media. An enthusiastic collaborator and nostalgic film nerd, he loves exploring a variety of styles in his music and enjoys working with ambitious artists to share engaging and impactful stories. Most recently, he scored the Disney+/Marvel series, Agatha All Along starring Kathryn Hahn, alongside Christophe Beck. The show’s musical palette is highlighted by its subversion of the traditional superhero sound, its fusion of horror with other recognizable musical styles, and its exploration of eclectic sounds and evocative textures.

Michael’s musical fingerprints can be found across a wide spectrum of genres, including projects such as Hawkeye, El Tonto Por Cristo, Unspoken, Frozen II, This World Won’t Break, and the Emmy-nominated score to WandaVision.

Texas-born and raised, Michael studied music composition at the University of Tulsa and film scoring at the Seattle Film Institute, where he studied with Hummie Mann. Since then, he has worked closely with distinguished composer, Christophe Beck, on many of today’s biggest hits. In his spare time, Michael can usually be found watching Dodgers games, baking pie, or stuffing his face with tacos.

ABOUT BRANDON ROBERTS

Emmy Award-winning composer Brandon Roberts’ music can be heard all over the scoring world today. From the Academy Award-winning documentary Free Solo, co-composed with Marco Beltrami, to the pulsing action of World War Z and Logan, to the surreal reimagining of Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone and the horror of Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving.

Brandon Roberts grew up in Carmel, California. During his teens, he was a waiter at a local burger joint and met composer Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Avengers: Endgame) who frequented the spot. Silvestri invited Roberts to his studio, and it influenced Roberts to pursue a career in film composing.

Most recently, Brandon scored Paramount Pictures’ Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, MGM’s true-story plane drama, On A Wing And A Prayer, Eli Roth’s hit slasher feature, Thanksgiving, for Sony Pictures and the action hit, Land Of Bad (starring Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth).

ABOUT ARIEL MARX

An Emmy- nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist, Ariel Marx draws from many genres and often combines orchestral and rare instruments with electronics to create unique worlds of sound. Her scores have premiered in films at Sundance, TIFF, SXSW, Tribeca, Woodstock, Criterion Channel, as well as films and shows on Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, FX, HBO, Mubi, Discovery+ and is a Sundance Film Music and Sound Design Lab fellow.

Most recently, Ariel scored the FX series Dying For Sex (starring Michelle Willams). Ariel also scored the National Geographic/Disney+ limited series A Small Light for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and Neon’s Sanctuary. In 2022 she released her first solo album Luthier with Node Records, and has scored the 5-part series for Hulu, Candy, starring Jessica Biel, Melanie Lynskey, Timothy Simons, Pablo Schreiber, and Raúl Esparza. She has also scored Episode 3 (Drive-In) of American Horror Stories on FX/Hulu, and Emma Seligman’s critically-acclaimed Shiva Baby (starring Rachel Sennot, Molly Gordon, Polly Draper, and Diana Agron), Netflix’s series My Love, as well Pedro Kos’ Rebel Hearts which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival & premiered on Discovery+. Ariel has also scored Lindsay Gossling’s upcoming Thirteen Minutes (starring Paz Vega, Thora Birch Anne Heche and Amy Smart), Paul Shoulberg’s So Cold The River (starring Bethany Joy Lenz and Alysia Reiner), and Joe Sackett’s Homebody (starring Colby Minifie). 

She also wrote the score for the Emmy nominated, Golden Globe nominated, and Independent Spirit Award nominated Sundance / HBO film The Tale, (directed by Jennifer Fox, and starring Laura Dern, Elizabeth Debicki, Jason Ritter, Ellen Burstyn, Common and John Heard ), the Independent Spirit Award nominated To Dust (directed by Shawn Snyder and starring Géza Röhrig and Matthew Broderick), which won the Best New Narrative Director and Narrative Audience Awards at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, Galt Niederhoffer’s 10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up (starring Christina Ricci and Hamish Linklater), and Sarah Pirozek’s #LIKE (starring Sarah Rich and Marc Menchacha).

ABOUT MARCELO ZARVOS

The subtle nuances of composer Marcelo Zarvos’ style are exemplified in his recent scores for Netflix’s critically acclaimed The Diplomat, May December directed by Todd Haynes, and Amazon’s Cassandro. Zarvos’ musical training began by studying classical music followed by exploring jazz, rock and world music. This expansion inspired Zarvos to create his trademark sound – a seamless blend of classical, orchestral, rock, electronic and various ethnic elements, including his Brazilian roots which fueled emotionally charged music for film, TV, and the concert stage.

Marcelo Zarvos’ recent projects include Hulu’s Good American Family, A24’s The Front Room directed by Max and Sam Eggers, and Eva Longoria’s directorial debut Flamin’ Hot. Zarvos’ upcoming projects include Netflix’s Nonnas starring Vince Vaughn and the feature Spacewoman which premiered fall 2024 at DOC NYC. 

Zarvos’ television scores have received accolades. He was twice Emmy® nominated for You Don’t Know Jack and Taking Chance. His other television credits include American Gigolo, The Day Sports Stood Still, Too Big to Fail, the HBO movie Phil Spector, the Amazon series One Mississippi, Z: The Beginning Of Everything, and the limited series The Romanoffs for Amazon.

ABOUT TOM WOLFE

Over the last 25 years Manish Raval and Tom Wolfe have established themselves as one of the top music supervision teams in film and television. The films they’ve worked on have grossed over $5 billion.

They oversaw all aspects of the music-driven, Academy Award®-winning film, “Green Book.” Their past feature film credits include “Red One,” “You’re Cordially Invited,” “The Gray Man,” “Extraction,” “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” and “The Next Level,” as well as “Neighbors,” “Trainwreck,” “Kingpin,” “Game Night,” “There’s Something About Mary” and “Donnie Darko.” One of their most music-driven films is “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” which garnered Grammy® and Golden Globe® nominations for Best Song.

 On the television side, Manish and Tom were nominated for an Emmy® Award for Best Music Supervision on HBO’s hit series “Girls.” Their other television credits include “Paradise,” “Loudermilk,” “Welcome to Chippendales,” “Goosebumps,” “Platonic,” “High Fidelity,” “The Boys,” “This Is Us,” “Preacher,” “Community” and “New Girl.” Raval was also the music editor on “Green Book,” “Neighbors” and “Trainwreck.”

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