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Shie is excited to be a featured composer at the upcoming Helix Collective concert.

Helix Collective is proud to present a concert of original music from Hollywood’s orchestrators, music editors, and soundtrack team members at 7pm on Saturday, March 16th at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre. The concert features the music of these fantastic composers, bringing their music into the spotlight and onto the concert stage.

These composers have worked on some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters, beautiful independent films, and everything in between. Featured composers on this concert have worked on the soundtracks for Star Trek – Discovery, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Hustle & Flow, Training Day, Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Jane the Virgin, The LEGO Movie 2, Ant-man and the Wasp, Marvel’s Spider-man, The Boss Baby, Wild, Wild Country, and the Isle of Dogs among many, many more. As lead composers, participating composers have been nominated for Best Score at the Milan and London International Film Festivals, won Best Music at Australia’s Connect Film Festival, as well as the ASCAP Emerging Film Composer Award and participating in the Sundance Music and Sound Design Lab.

It takes a team of great composers to create the perfect soundtrack. Lead composers rely on colleagues who orchestrate, compose, edit, copy, and program, often on extremely tight deadlines to create the perfect, seamless soundtracks for film and television. These composers know how to work under pressure in highly efficient teams. This is a night to see what they can bring given a chamber orchestra, live audience, and the freedom to make music LIVE!  

Called “dizzyingly virtuosic with exquisite musicianship and world-class range,” Helix Collective is a flexible instrumentation ensemble that performs as a small chamber orchestra with conductor, Phil Popham, for this event. Helix Collective produces the Los Angeles Live Score Film Festival, has performed for several live soundtrack events, and recorded the scores for over thirty films.

This concert is sponsored by White Bear PR. 

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Shie Nominated for 16th Career Golden Reel Award

Shie has earned his career 16th MPSE Golden Reel nomination for outstanding achievement in sound editing – episodic long form – music for his work on John Singleton’s Rebel. He has previously won twice, once as assistant music editor on the musical Chicago, and again as music editor on IMAX: Deep Sea 3D.

Pocket Wins 4 Awards at the Best Short Film Competition

Congratulations to Joe Ferro & Anne Grauso for winning 4 Awards of Merit at the Best Short Film Festival for their film, Pocket. The film was honored with Best Film, Women Filmmaker, Cinematography & Direction. Shie had the pleasure of scoring this award-winning short.

1943 Wins at Top Shorts Online Film Festival

Congratulations to Elizabeth Dion for winning Best Original Story at the Top Shorts Online Film Festival for 1943. Shie had the distinct pleasure of scoring this powerful award winning short.

Jasmine Soundtrack Available on Limited Edition CD

Varèse Sarabande released the JASMINE – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on CD as the first album in their Signature Series. 300 autographed copies are now available for purchase exclusively on the Varèse Sarabande website.

“This was my first time doing an all-electronic score, and in many ways the score also needed to double as sound design,” explained Rozow.  “I took various orchestral sounds and effects and processed them very heavily to turn them into something very electronic and quite different. And in order to really get the emotion I wanted, I felt I needed a bowed instrument. There’s something about how a bow pulls across a string to generate a sound in a way that no other instrument can. Since I wanted to stick to the electronic palette I used an electric cello that is also quite processed, and that’s featured throughout the score.”

A year after his wife’s murder, once-successful Hong Kong businessman Leonard To (Jason Tobin, THE FAST AND THE FUTURE: TOKYO DRIFT) is still reeling from the tragedy. Having lost his job, friends and all sense of order in his life, Leonard becomes obsessed with a mysterious stranger (Byron Mann, THE BIG SHORT) he sees at his wife’s grave, believing him to be responsible for her death.

“The film is called Jasmine, yet we never actually see Jasmine in the movie,” said Rozow. “We see a couple of photos of her, and her gravestone. But she died before the film even begins. So one of the tricks was to create a ‘Jasmine theme’ that would emotionally connect our main character, Leonard, with her.”  In addition to Jasmine’s theme and variations, “we also have Leonard’s motif, which is just a four note ascending line that sometimes plays as counterpoint to Jasmine’s theme. And we have the therapy theme, which comes back whenever we see Leonard in group therapy.”

Born in Israel, composer and music editor Shie Rozow has taken a different path than most leading him to work on major international blockbusters including AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, HUSTLE & FLOW, and 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS.

After completing Berklee’s four-year program in just five semesters (“being broke is a great incentive,” he explained), Shie graduated and moved to Los Angeles. His tenacity would earn him a job as Composer, Music Supervisor, and Music Editor at Alan Ett Music Group (now called The Music Collective). In the years he worked there, Shie was responsible for over 650 hours of television music for series including INTIMATE PORTRAIT, BIOGRAPHY, HYSTORY’S MYSTERIES, and MODERN MARVELS. He also wrote music for many of these shows as well as the in-house music library.

Shie left Alan Ett Music Group to go freelance. He later became music editor Richard Ford’s assistant, helping on such films as TRAINING DAY and ABOUT SCHMIDT, eventually becoming an in-demand music editor himself on films including CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, THE KINGDOM, and THE DICTATOR. As a music editor, Shie has earned 15 Golden Reel Award nominations, including two wins (CHICAGO and IMAX: DEEP SEA).

Though his career in music editing was taking off, Shie continued to write music, often adding additional music for movies or TV (including the hit series DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES), writing for music libraries, for documentary and feature film productions. His scoring credits include the direct to DVD film BALLISTICA, the documentary DEAR MR. PRESIDENT and the award-winning indie feature JASMINE.

Guided by his inner voice, Shie was inspired to write and record music this time for himself. The album, Musical Fantasy, was released by 4Tay Records on May 20, 2016 and includes Expedition for String Quartet, which received its debut performance by The Lyris Quartet at a concert for the Contemporary Performance Collective and its New York premiere by the Amernet Quartet.

Four Times the Philippines Wins San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition

Howard Hall’s short Four Times the Philippines using music by Shie won the top prize at the 2017 San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition.

Shie Launches The Remote Recording Database

As the film-scoring landscape evolves, there’s a growing need for individual musicians who can record themselves remotely. The internet age has also made it possible for artists to reach each other across the world and collaborate.

To that end, Shie created The Remote Recording Database, an online community where industry professionals can sign up to create a free profile, which in turn is easily found via a searchable directory. The Remote Recording Database makes it easy for composers and producers to find the musicians they need, whether it’s for remote recordings, live gigs or anything in between.

Shie is proud to launch The Remote Recording Database, which is now live and available for any professional musician to sign up and become part of this online community.

Shie Wins Best Score at Los Angeles CineFest

Shie’s score to the short film Creak by Elizabeth Dionne was awarded Best Score at the Los Angeles CineFest!

Jasmine Soundtrack Now Available

Release on Varèse Sarabande Records, the JASMINE – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is now available for digital download.

 

“This was my first time doing an all-electronic score, and in many ways the score also needed to double as sound design,” explained Rozow.  “I took various orchestral sounds and effects and processed them very heavily to turn them into something very electronic and quite different. And in order to really get the emotion I wanted, I felt I needed a bowed instrument. There’s something about how a bow pulls across a string to generate a sound in a way that no other instrument can. Since I wanted to stick to the electronic palette I used an electric cello that is also quite processed, and that’s featured throughout the score.”

A year after his wife’s murder, once-successful Hong Kong businessman Leonard To (Jason Tobin, THE FAST AND THE FUTURE: TOKYO DRIFT) is still reeling from the tragedy. Having lost his job, friends and all sense of order in his life, Leonard becomes obsessed with a mysterious stranger (Byron Mann, THE BIG SHORT) he sees at his wife’s grave, believing him to be responsible for her death.

“The film is called Jasmine, yet we never actually see Jasmine in the movie,” said Rozow. “We see a couple of photos of her, and her gravestone. But she died before the film even begins. So one of the tricks was to create a ‘Jasmine theme’ that would emotionally connect our main character, Leonard, with her.”  In addition to Jasmine’s theme and variations, “we also have Leonard’s motif, which is just a four note ascending line that sometimes plays as counterpoint to Jasmine’s theme. And we have the therapy theme, which comes back whenever we see Leonard in group therapy.”

Born in Israel, composer and music editor Shie Rozow has taken a different path than most leading him to work on major international blockbusters including AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, HUSTLE & FLOW, and 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS.

After completing Berklee’s four-year program in just five semesters (“being broke is a great incentive,” he explained), Shie graduated and moved to Los Angeles. His tenacity would earn him a job as Composer, Music Supervisor, and Music Editor at Alan Ett Music Group (now called The Music Collective). In the years he worked there, Shie was responsible for over 650 hours of television music for series including INTIMATE PORTRAIT, BIOGRAPHY, HYSTORY’S MYSTERIES, and MODERN MARVELS. He also wrote music for many of these shows as well as the in-house music library.

Shie left Alan Ett Music Group to go freelance. He later became music editor Richard Ford’s assistant, helping on such films as TRAINING DAY and ABOUT SCHMIDT, eventually becoming an in-demand music editor himself on films including CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, THE KINGDOM, and THE DICTATOR. As a music editor, Shie has earned 15 Golden Reel Award nominations, including two wins (CHICAGO and IMAX: DEEP SEA).

Though his career in music editing was taking off, Shie continued to write music, often adding additional music for movies or TV (including the hit series DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES), writing for music libraries, for documentary and feature film productions. His scoring credits include the direct to DVD film BALLISTICA, the documentary DEAR MR. PRESIDENT and the award-winning indie feature JASMINE.

Guided by his inner voice, Shie was inspired to write and record music this time for himself. The album, Musical Fantasy, was released by 4Tay Records on May 20, 2016 and includes Expedition for String Quartet, which received its debut performance by The Lyris Quartet at a concert for the Contemporary Performance Collective and its New York premiere by the Amernet Quartet.

Jasmine Soundtrack Gets Digital Release

Varèse Sarabande will release the JASMINE – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally on July 14, 2017. The album features the film’s original music composed by Shie Rozow (#FOLLOWFRIDAY, BALLISTICA).

“This was my first time doing an all-electronic score, and in many ways the score also needed to double as sound design,” explained Rozow.  “I took various orchestral sounds and effects and processed them very heavily to turn them into something very electronic and quite different. And in order to really get the emotion I wanted, I felt I needed a bowed instrument. There’s something about how a bow pulls across a string to generate a sound in a way that no other instrument can. Since I wanted to stick to the electronic palette I used an electric cello that is also quite processed, and that’s featured throughout the score.”

A year after his wife’s murder, once-successful Hong Kong businessman Leonard To (Jason Tobin, THE FAST AND THE FUTURE: TOKYO DRIFT) is still reeling from the tragedy. Having lost his job, friends and all sense of order in his life, Leonard becomes obsessed with a mysterious stranger (Byron Mann, THE BIG SHORT) he sees at his wife’s grave, believing him to be responsible for her death.

“The film is called Jasmine, yet we never actually see Jasmine in the movie,” said Rozow. “We see a couple of photos of her, and her gravestone. But she died before the film even begins. So one of the tricks was to create a ‘Jasmine theme’ that would emotionally connect our main character, Leonard, with her.”  In addition to Jasmine’s theme and variations, “we also have Leonard’s motif, which is just a four note ascending line that sometimes plays as counterpoint to Jasmine’s theme. And we have the therapy theme, which comes back whenever we see Leonard in group therapy.”

Born in Israel, composer and music editor Shie Rozow has taken a different path than most leading him to work on major international blockbusters including AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, HUSTLE & FLOW, and 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS.

After completing Berklee’s four-year program in just five semesters (“being broke is a great incentive,” he explained), Shie graduated and moved to Los Angeles. His tenacity would earn him a job as Composer, Music Supervisor, and Music Editor at Alan Ett Music Group (now called The Music Collective). In the years he worked there, Shie was responsible for over 650 hours of television music for series including INTIMATE PORTRAIT, BIOGRAPHY, HYSTORY’S MYSTERIES, and MODERN MARVELS. He also wrote music for many of these shows as well as the in-house music library.

Shie left Alan Ett Music Group to go freelance. He later became music editor Richard Ford’s assistant, helping on such films as TRAINING DAY and ABOUT SCHMIDT, eventually becoming an in-demand music editor himself on films including CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, THE KINGDOM, and THE DICTATOR. As a music editor, Shie has earned 15 Golden Reel Award nominations, including two wins (CHICAGO and IMAX: DEEP SEA).

Though his career in music editing was taking off, Shie continued to write music, often adding additional music for movies or TV (including the hit series DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES), writing for music libraries, for documentary and feature film productions. His scoring credits include the direct to DVD film BALLISTICA, the documentary DEAR MR. PRESIDENT and the award-winning indie feature JASMINE.

Guided by his inner voice, Shie was inspired to write and record music this time for himself. The album, Musical Fantasy, was released by 4Tay Records on May 20, 2016 and includes Expedition for String Quartet, which received its debut performance by The Lyris Quartet at a concert for the Contemporary Performance Collective and its New York premiere by the Amernet Quartet.

Indican Pictures presents JASMINE, currently in theaters in limited release.  Varèse Sarabande will release JASMINE – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally on July 14, 2017.

Jasmine Acquired by Indican Pictures!

Following its win at the Berlin Independent Film Festival, Jasmine has been acquired by Los Angeles Based distributor Indican Pictures. The film is expected to be in theaters in June.

A year after his wife’s murder, once-successful Hong Kong businessman Leonard To (Jason Tobin) is still reeling from the tragedy. Having lost his job, friends and all sense of order in his life, Leonard becomes obsessed with a mysterious stranger he sees at his wife’s grave, believing him to be responsible for her death.