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In Conversation with Mychael Danna and Robert Kraft

El Mocambo - Starlight Room

464 Spadina Ave. #462, Toronto, ON M5T 2G8, Canada Ontario

43.6575911 -79.4002005

SOCAN

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Presented by SOCAN and SCGC: Don't miss this rare opportunity to delve into the career of Oscar, Golden Globe, and Emmy winning screen composer Mychael Danna. Explore Danna's journey from Toronto to LA, his early influences, and the opportunities that shaped his career. Moderated by songwriter and composer Robert Kraft, former President of Fox Music and CEO of Kraftbox Entertainment, you are sure to learn tips and tricks of the trade from two of the best in the business. About Mychael Danna Mychael Danna is an Academy Award-winning film composer recognized for his evocative blending of non-western traditions with orchestral and electronic music. He composed the transculturally inspired 2013 Best Score Oscar and Golden Globe-winning score for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. Danna also composed scores for Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm, and Ride With the Devil. His passion for presenting complex ideas in a musically accessible way began as Danna learned his craft at the University of Toronto. There, he was exposed to early- and world-music that later influenced his style. Danna earned the school’s inaugural Glenn Gould Composition Award in 1985 and also began scoring for student theatre groups, as he launched his artistic partnership with filmmaker Atom Egoyan. Danna has scored Egoyan’s films since 1987’s Family viewing, winning Genie Awards for Original Score (Canadian Film Award) for their films Exotica, Felicia’s Journey, Ararat and The Sweet Hereafter. Other noted credits include Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated films such as Deepa Mehta’s Water, Moneyball and Capote with director Bennett Miller, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus for Terry Gilliam, Monsoon Wedding for Mira Nair, Little Miss Sunshine, (500) Days of Summer, Being Julia, the Pixar films The Good Dinosaur and Onward, as well as The Breadwinner and Girl, Interrupted. He also won an Emmy Award for outstanding music composition for the mini-series World Without End. Other television scores include Alias Grace (Best Score Emmy Nomination), Tyrant, (3 Best Score Emmy Nominations), Camelot, (Best Score Emmy Nomination) and Return to Space (Best Score Emmy Nomination), co-scored with Harry Gregson-Williams. Recent film scores are Where the Crawdads Sing, My Father’s Dragon, and the Jennifer Lawrence raunch comedy No Hard Feelings. Among Mychael’s other awards are the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing (2013), the World Soundtrack Awards for Film Composer of the Year, and Best Score of the Year (both 2013), the Hollywood Film Award for Composer of the Year (2016), and Zurich Film Festival Career Achievement Award (2021). About Robert Kraft Robert Kraft is an award-winning songwriter, film composer, recording artist and record producer. As President of Fox Music from 1994 to 2012, Kraft was the Executive in Charge of Music for more than 300 Fox feature films, as well as dozens of TV shows. As a songwriter, Kraft has earned nominations for an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globes. For co-composing the song, "Beautiful Maria of My Soul" from the Warner Brothers feature, "The Mambo Kings", he was nominated for an Oscar, a Grammy and a Golden Globe. Kraft was nominated for a second Golden Globe for the song, "How Can I Not Love You" from "Anna and the King", co-written with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and film composer George Fenton. In 1989, Kraft co-produced all of the Oscar- and Grammy Award-winning songs on the multi-platinum soundtrack, "The Little Mermaid", including the Academy Award-winning song, "Under The Sea". He was nominated for a Grammy Award as the producer of "The Muppet Christmas Carol", and his song, "Hudson Hawk" was the basis for the Tri-Star film, "Hudson Hawk" (1991) starring Bruce Willis and Andie MacDowell. Doors: 11:00am Conversation: 11:30 - 1:00pm *Light food provided.

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