Free webinar
Top 5 Mistakes By NEW Orchestral Composers (and how to fix them)
with EMILY HAWKINS
REcorded saturday oct 5
To write world-class orchestral music, you need to master a number of different skills – and all aspiring composers get something wrong.
In this webinar, we’ll explore what we’ve learned teaching students on our Orchestral Composition Bootcamp course, and show you the top mistakes made by new composers so you can fix them before they become bad habits.
Bootcamp tutor Emily Hawkins will cover areas including perfecting your main theme, arranging for orchestral instrument and crafting emotive harmonic progressions.
About Emily Hawkins
Emily is a film & media composer from the UK based in Berlin, Germany. She enjoys working across a wide range of mediums including film, library music, and podcasts. She has also written demos for Orchestral Tools and MNTRA instruments. Recent projects include the documentary "The Last Cheetahs of Solitaire" and two German feature films, "Eine Wütende Frau" with award winning director Antonia Uhl and "Ende Des Kreises". Her library music has been placed on prime-time TV shows such as Masterchef in the UK.
Emily is a ThinkSpace alumnus; she graduated with distinction from the MA Professional Media Composition program. In 2023, she was a finalist for the European Talent Award.
orchestral Composition
$799
Get more advice from Emily and the team, plus personal feedback and mentoring for your music. Become the composer you've always dreamt of being with an 8-week online tutored course featuring live sessions, personal feedback and guidance from professional orchestrators.
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