SCL Nashville Seminar - The Composer's Toolkit: A Look at Score Analysis

THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS
INVITES YOU TO
The Composer's Toolkit
A Look at Score Analysis

FEATURING
Author and Music Educator
Andy Hill
MODERATED BY JONATHAN GROW
(Composer)
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM CT

SESAC

35 Music Square East

Nashville, TN 37203

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The Composer’s Toolkit: A Look at Score Analysis — In this seminar, Andy Hill will delve into score analysis as one of the most essential tools for a composer. In his bookScoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music, Hill offered a view from the inside of the actual process of scoring-to-picture through analyzing landmark film scores. Similarly, in this seminar, Andy will unravel how score study is a crucial tool for developing one's own music, as well as reinforce the composer's understanding of how to shape each cue to the story being told. Andy Hill brings decades of industry and academic experience to the discussion.

Andy Hill was born in Chicago and studied filmmaking under Haig P. Manoogian at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. From 1987-1996, he served as vice-president of music production for Walt Disney Pictures, overseeing music production on a roster of films which included The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Sister Act, and working closely with composers and songwriters such as Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Hans Zimmer. Films for which Hill supervised music under the aegis of the Disney music department have earned nine Academy Awards in music categories.
In 2003, Hill began offering summer scoring workshops via the Los Angeles extension of Columbia College Chicago, and this led in 2006 to his appointment as director of the college's first full MFA program, Music Composition for the Screen. In 2011, he was engaged to oversee preparation and launch of a similar program, Scoring for Film, TV and Videogames, for the international campus of the Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain. Overall, he has launched and directed three graduate programs in screen scoring (Columbia College Chicago, Berklee Valencia, and the Film Scoring Academy of Europe) and currently serves as Executive Dean of Screen Scoring for Media Design School at Strayer.
Hill continues to compose, produce, and supervise music for film and other media. He has also authored a trilogy of "metaphysical detective novels," the "Stephan Raszer Investigations," published by Carroll & Graf and Counterpoint Press. His book of film music analyses, SCORING THE SCREEN: The Secret Language of Music for Film and Visual Media, was published in 2017 by Hal Leonard and praised by industry leaders such as Conrad Pope, Mychael Danna, John Powell, Chris Montan, and Dan Carlin.

Jonathan Grow is a composer and pianist based in Nashville, working in television, advertising, and production music. His work can be heard in shows such as Love Transit, Relative Secrets, and NFL Total Access. He serves on the Steering Committee for the SCL in Nashville, where he also chairs the Seminars Committee, regularly moderating industry panels, and helping to foster community and professional development among fellow composers.

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*** SEMINAR INFORMATION ***

• Check-in begins 5:30PM.
• If you RSVP but are unable to attend, please cancel your reservation by 10:00AM Tuesday, April 7.
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• This invitation is non-transferable.
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