Master Class: Film Music - Creating the Soundscape for Your Film with Peter Golub (THE GREAT DEBATERS), Adam Smalley (THE LION KING) and Carter Burwell (THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN)

Peter Golub is the composer of numerous works for film, the concert hall, theatre and dance. His film scores include: Frozen River (directed by Courtney Hunt and nominated for 2 Academy Awards); The Laramie Project (for HBO); The Great Debaters (directed by Denzel Washington and co-composed with James Newton Howard); Wordplay (directed by Patrick Creadon); Countdown to Zero (dir by Lucy Walker); Sound of a Dream (dir by Zhang Wei); and Songs My Brothers Taught Me (dir by Chloe Zhao). Scores for Broadway include: The Country House (by Donald Marguiles, directed by Daniel Sullivan, with Blythe Danner), The Heiress (directed by Moises Kaufman, with Jessica Chastain) and Hedda Gabler (directed by Nicholas Martin, with Kate Burton). 

In his early career he was Composer-in-Residence for Charles Ludlam's legendary Ridiculous Theatrical Company in Greenwich Village, along with considerable work composing music for the theatre with Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival (including numerous productions at the Delacorte in Central Park as well as at the Public downtown) and at La Mama, including work with Ethyl Eichelberger, Ellen Stewart, Jospeh Chaikin and others. His musical, Ampigorey, with book, lyrics and designs by Edward Gorey, was produced at the American Music Theater Festival (Philadelphia), as well as at the American Repertory Theatre (ART) in Cambridge, culminating in an off-Broadway run at the Perry Street Theatre in NY. Amphigorey was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Musical. 

His ballet based on Gorey's The Gilded Bat, choreography by Peter Anastos, was commissioned by Ballet West and performed at the Kennedy Center and throughout the US. Other ballets were commissioned by the Miami City Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, and Atlanta Ballet. Recent concert music includes: Sleepwalking (a cello concerto), Ghost Songs (for voice and piano, to texts by Thomas Hardy), Six Dirty Limericks, Garden Paths (for flute, viola and Harp), Florestan & Eusebius (for saxophone quartet) and A Child of Children and Art (commissioned by pianist Anthony de Mare as part of a set of original piano pieces in tribute to Stephen Sondheim). He studied composition with Toru Takemitsu and Henry Brant.

Golub is the Director of the Sundance Film Music Program and teaches at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Adam has a wide-ranging career in the film industry, having worked as a music editor, producer, composer, music supervisor, and yes, a child actor. Adam has worked with legendary artists directors and composers such as Terrence Malick, Tony Scott, Ben Affleck, Catherine Hardwicke, Steven Spielberg, Richard Donner, David Fincher and Spike Jonze.

He has worked closely with Composer Carter Burwell on nearly 50 projects, including TWILIGHT, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, and Apple + latest, THE MORNING SHOW.

In 1993, Adam partnered with film composer Hans Zimmer, and has

produced, supervised and edited the music on a string of successful films which include THE LION KING, GLADIATOR, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, KUNG FU PANDA, and THE THIN RED LINE.

In 2010, Adam wrote and directed his first short film entitled I DO, which won the Silver Screen Nevada film festival, the Newport Beach, New Orleans, and Fort Lauderdale festivals.

In 2017, Adam was invited to the Havana Film festival though Sundance, which inspired Adam to direct a documentary on the artists of Havana entitled BEING CUBAN - This is still in the works.

When Adam was 8 years old, his mom was approached by an acting agent, and followed up on a meeting with her. Adam subsequently acting in nearly 30 commercials and TV specials from the age of 9 to 18 years of age. This was clearly a strong foundation of seeing the film industry from all sides. 

Carter Burwell has composed the music for a number of feature films, including BLOOD SIMPLE, RAISING ARIZONA, MILLER'S CROSSING, BARTON FINK, ROB ROY, FARGO, THE SPANISH PRISONER, GODS AND MONSTERS, VELVET GOLDMINE, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, ADAPTATION, IN BRUGES, TWILIGHT, TRUE GRIT, ANOMALISA, CAROL, and THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI.

His theater work includes the chamber opera THE CELESTIAL ALPHABET EVENT and the Mabou Mines productions MOTHER and LUCIA'S CHAPTERS OF COMING FORTH BY DAY. In 2005 he developed a concert work for text and music titled THEATER OF THE NEW EAR, presented in New York, London and Los Angeles. The text, by Joel and Ethan Coen and Charlie Kaufman, was performed by a dozen actors including Meryl Streep, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hope Davis, Peter Dinklage, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The music was performed by the Parabola Ensemble, conducted by Mr. Burwell.

His writing includes the essay "Music at Six: Scoring the News Then and Now," published in the inaugural issue of Esopus magazine in 2003 and reprinted in Harper's Magazine, and the essay “No Country For Old Music” in the 2013 Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics.

He has performed around the world with his own ensembles as well as others, such as The Harmonic Choir.

Patty West is a producer and educator based in California. She led the Directing Workshop for Women and the Thesis Program at the American Film Institute prior to joining the Sundance Institute. She came to Sundance Collab in December of 2019 and now serves as its Director. 

West is a Chicago native and holds a B.S. from Northwestern University, an M.F.A. from the AFI Conservatory and an Executive M.B.A. from Quantic School of Business & Technology. She is a member of the Producer's Council of the Producers Guild of America.