Mark Herschberg is the author of The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. Educated at MIT, Mark has spent his career launching and fixing new ventures at startups, Fortune [...]
Composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Turner is known for creating innovative and diverse music for the moving image and the stage. He is a two time EMMY nominee, has won the Music + Sound Award, [...]
James Edward Barker is an award-winning British composer & music producer. Influenced by an eclectic mix of genres, James has composed for almost every facet of music. He is a multi-instrumentalist, performing as a guitarist, [...]
Penka Kouneva is known across Hollywood as an "exceptionally talented composer and artist of uncommon passion" (NPR). Her credits include the games The Mummy VR and Prince of Persia, a NASA theme park "Heroes [...]
Tony Manfredonia is a composer living in Petoskey, MI, providing a sensory experience through colorful orchestration and warm melodies. Recent performances include ensembles such as the University of Cambridge Concert Band and the Brazosport [...]
There is more than one way to build a career as a composer—and that’s a beautiful thing. Yet there are some best practices and principles that show up consistently in the lives of successful [...]
This post contains affiliate links. Music supervisor Liz Lawson has helped shape the sound of over a dozen features and multiple seasons of both scripted and unscripted television. She recently wrapped CHRIS PAUL’S CHAPTER 3, [...]
This post contains affiliate links. The question I get asked the most as host of The Portfolio Composer is if grad school is worth it. In an attempt to answer this question I've put [...]
This post contains affiliate links. Passionate about advocacy, Michael Bussewitz-Quarm is a New York-based composer, conductor, and speaker. Michael’s most recent works include the commissioned work, “The Road That Has No End” and Requiem Dies [...]
Eric Salazar is an emerging artist with international press attention. Dubbed a super-human clarinet hero (Big Car, 2015), Salazar pioneers the indie-classical genre. He takes his classical training and fuses together modern electronics with classical [...]
