Peter Golub’s recent film scores include:  All Work All Play; Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015 Cannes and Sundance); These Amazing Shadows (2011 Sundance Film Festival); Countdown to Zero (Participant Films); Frozen River, directed by Courtney Hunt (nominated for two Academy Awards and winner of Jury Prize for Best Film, 2008 Sundance Film Festival); The Great Debaters (co-composed with James Newton Howard, directed by Denzel Washington); Outrage, directed by Kirby Dick (2009 Tribeca);  True Adolescents, directed by Craig Johnson (2009, S X Southwest);  I.O.U.S.A., directed by Patrick Creadon (2008 Sundance Film Festival); Wordplay, directed by Patrick Creadon; American Gun, directed by Aric Avelino, with Marcia Gay Harden and Forrest Whittaker; Stolen, directed by Rebecca Dreyfus, for which he won a Best Music Award at the 2005 Avignon Film Festival; The Laramie Project, for HBO, directed by Moises Kaufman; and Sunset Story, directed by Laura Gabbert, winner of Best Documentary at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival.  He also arranged and conducted music for The Lost City, directed by Andy Garcia.  Recent Broadway theatre credits include: The Country House (by Donald Marguiles, with Blythe Danner);  The Heiress (dir by Moises Kaufman, with Jessica Chastain); Time Stands Still, (dir by Daniel Sullivan, with Laura Linney; Come Back Little Sheba; Hedda Gabler; Suddenly Last Summer (with Blythe Danner).  He has numerous off-Broadway credits, including the recent two part Laramie Project at BAM; over fifteen productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival. For ten years he was composer-in-residence at Charles Ludlam's legendary Ridiculous Theatrical Company in Greenwich Village. His musical, Amphigorey, with story and designs by Edward Gorey, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.

James Newton Howard is an 8-time Oscar nominee and one of the industry's most versatile and in-demand composers, with over 120 motion picture and television scores to his credit. Howard has received eight Oscar nominations, including six for Best Original Score for Defiance, Michael Clayton, The Village, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Fugitive and The Prince of Tides, and two for Best Original Song from Junior and One Fine Day. Howard's long list of credits include all four installments of The Hunger Games, Concussion, Maleficent, Snow White and The Huntsman, Salt, The Dark Knight (for which he won the 2009 Grammy Award along with Hans Zimmer), I Am Legend, Blood Diamond, King Kong, Batman Begins, Signs, The Sixth Sense, and Pretty Woman. He has had two concert pieces premiered with the Pacific Symphony  - I Would Plant a Tree performed in February 2009, and most recently his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra performed in March 2015, featuring renowned violinist James Ehnes. Howard’s success reflects the experiences of a rich musical past.  Inspired by his grandmother, a classical violinist who played in the Pittsburgh Symphony in the ’30s and ’40s, he began his studies on the piano at age four.  Though his training was classical, it was his early work in the pop/rock arena that allowed him to hone his talents as a musician, arranger, songwriter and producer with some of pop’s biggest names, including Elton John, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Barbra Streisand, Rod Stewart, Bob Seger, Chicago, Toto, and Chaka Khan, among many others. When he was offered his first film, Head Office in 1985, he knew he had found his calling.

Sharon Smith has had a dual career as Music Editor/Music Supervisor for Film and Television, and as a composer for Modern Dance, Television and Theatre. She has worked in Hollywood, Mexico, Canada and Europe on a great variety of projects from big budget features to documentaries to independent films. Selected credits include Mission Impossible (Brian de Palma), The Princess Diaries (Garry Marshall), Wilde Salome (Al Pacino), The Sessions (Ben Lewin), An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim). She stresses that the more modest projects were very rewarding, inviting a different kind of collaboration, often with first time directors and composers. She has lectured at the American Film Institute and the Brooks Institute.

Chris Boardman is the director of the Media Writing and Production Program at the University of Miami Frost School of Music and teaches Film Scoring and Advanced Music Editing. Beginning his career in the film, television and recording industries in 1974, Boardman has consistently worked at the top echelon of the entertainment industry receiving an Academy Award nomination for The Color Purple, 6 Emmy Awards, 13 Emmy nominations, ASCAP and BMI awards and multiple platinum records for work with such iconic artists as Quincy Jones, David Foster, Steven Speilberg, Julie Andrews, Shirley MacLaine, Barbara Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch and Josh Groban. Well known in Hollywood circles a one of a handful of musicians who can literally write anything, Boardman’s credits span both industry and genre. Whether it be conducting David Foster’s World Children’s Day for television, composing the 70’s inspired score for Mel Gibson’s Payback, arranging period dance music for Swing Kids and Meet Joe Black, orchestrating Chaplin for Broadway or releasing and producing solo recordings as an artist, Boardman embraces these challenges with characteristic integrity and passion making him one of the most uniquely versatile and highly respected musicians in the industry. He attended Weber State University and continued on to California State University Northridge, working simultaneously in Los Angeles recording studios. Always looking for new challenges, Boardman is the founder of a successful social media content strategy consulting business and is at the forefront of the fast moving online media space.

Anton Sanko is a music composer, orchestrator, and producer born in New York City. He has been writing music for picture for over 20 years. He has recently scored Ouija for Blumhouse/Universal, Jessabelle for Blumhouse/Lionsgate and Visions,  also for Blumhouse/Universal. He is currently working on The Naturalist for PBS. He has just completed season two of Garry Trudeau's Alpha House for Amazon Studios, and is the music consultant on HBO's Getting On. Last year  Anton was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his work in the Lifetime Original Movie Ring of Fire in the category of Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Original Dramatic Score). Sanko’s credits include The Possession,  starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick directed by Ole Bornedal, Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart from director John Cameron Mitchell,  and HBO’s series Big Love. Other notable films he has worked on are Scotland, Pa, Party Girl and Saving Face. Anton also scored the epic seven-part global programming television event Great Migrations for National Geographic. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Individual Achievement In A Craft: Music Sound award at the 32nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards for his work as composer in Great Migrations. Sanko’s prominent production credits include producing and writing with Suzanne Vega on Solitude Standing (seven Grammy nominations) and Days of Open Hand (one Grammy award), and producing and writing on Jim Carroll’s last album Pools of Mercury. He has also produced Skeleton Key’s Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon (one Grammy nomination) as well as albums for Lucy Kaplansky and Anna Domino.