Helix Collective Presents: “Shoutout” at the Colony
SHOUTOUT!
Live Premiere by Helix Collective
Saturday, August 3rd, 7:30pm
The Colony Theatre
555 N 3rd St, Burbank, CA 91502
Tickets $15 ($10 Early Bird):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/916773583467
Free Parking
SHOUTOUT! album
6:30pm Pre-Concert Party & Gallery Viewing
7:30pm Concert
8:30 Hang with the Artists
The live premiere of 12 original works from the joint album with Helix Collective and the Composers Diversity Collective - SHOUTOUT!
The music by the film, t.v., and game composers of the Composers Diversity Collective was originally recorded by a quintet of Helix Collective musicians as an album during the height of the pandemic. The ensemble with flute, oboe, cello, piano, marimba and drums will perform the music live for the first time at the Colony Theatre in Burbank on August 3rd at 7:30pm.
During the pre-concert party and post-concert hang with the artists, the gallery will be open displaying the newest exhibit from California Creative Arts. The audience will have the chance to meet the composers, musicians, and artists after the show.
Now this creative project born of those unprecedented times can be heard live onstage for the very first time! Get together with Helix Collective, the Composers Diversity Collective, and our film, t.v., and Burbank communities to celebrate great music and great creators.
“The music ranges from Morales’ charming fairy-garden piece “Sapphire and Eliana” to the jazzy “Bla Bla Land” by South Korean composer Jina Hyojin An; from the wide-open-spaces “Old West” by Sid De La Cruz to the sweetly romantic “A New Place” by Middle Eastern composer Ghiya Rushidat; from the moody urgency of “Crossed Paths” by Mexico City-born Kevin Smithers to the edgy chamber-music sound of “Le Collapsus” by Taiwanese composer Cora Chung.”
-Jon Burlingame, Variety Magazine
Read more about the recording project in Variety Magazine!
Helix Collective are classical musicians busting out of the traditional mold. From crossover dance music, to storytelling, to film, television, and video game music, the Los Angeles-based ensemble takes the best of classical chamber music and makes it the life of the party.
Helix has collaborated with many EMMY and GRAMMY winning film, t.v., and video game composers. In 2012 we founded the Los Angeles Live Score Film Festival, a live score-to-screen film festival that pairs film composers and indie filmmakers. Helix Collective produces Film Music Connect with SAGindie, providing independent filmmakers with original scores recorded by the ensemble. Helix Collective produces concerts featuring media composers that give them the chance to stretch their musical wings on the concert stage and connect with creative communities here in L.A.
The Composers Diversity Collective was cofounded by Michael Abels and a group of like-minded film composers to eliminate the film industry’s challenge to find music creators of diverse backgrounds. Members of the collective represent ethnic and cultural diversity within the film community and are composers writing music for theatrical, game, streaming, or broadcast media.
Composers writing for the project include EMMY-nominated Mexican-American composer Tony Morales, Canadian - Filipina composer Mary Ancheta who has written music for television shows including The L Word and Queer Eye, South Korean composer Jina Hyojin An who won best original score at the Nice International Film Festival, George Shaw who wrote the music for Abominable and the Invisible City, Zong Chiang who recently collaborated with the Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra, and Sid de la Cruz who has written scores for films streamed on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. Please see the full list of participating composers below.
This program is supported in part by a Community Arts Grant from the City of Burbank and our 2024 Season Sponsors BMI and Spectra Creative Agency.
THE MUSIC
Original works for flute, oboe, cello, piano, and percussion including
Bla Bla Land, composer Jina Hyojin An
Busy in Place, composer James A. Goins
Crossed Paths, composer Kevin Smithers
Dancing in the Waves, composer George Shaw
The Heist, composer Mary Ancheta
Le Collapsus, composer Cora Chung
Life of Gregory, composer Matthew Wang
A New Place, composer Ghiya Rushidat
The Old West, composer Sid De La Cruz
Q-Anon Canon, composer Pablo R. Langaine
Sapphire & Eliana, composer Tony Morales
Waves, composer Zong Chiang
Helix Collective
Phil Popham, music director & oboe
Sarah Robinson, flute
Chris Ahn, cello
Kathryn Eames, piano
Matthew Ordaz, marimba and drums
ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
Jina Hyojin An is a South Korean violist and composer based in Los Angeles. She has worked for Academy Award-winning composer Mychael Danna on numerous feature films, such as the Academy Award-nominated animated feature ‘The Breadwinner’, ‘On the Basis of Sex’, to Disney Pixar’s ‘Onward’ and others. Her burgeoning list of collaborations and projects also include comedy feature ‘Freelancers Anonymous’ (Sonia Sebastian), as well as winning best original score at the Nice International Film Festival in the short 'White Ink' (Jacqueline Grajales), with work screened at the CAAMFEST in the documentary, 'A Letter for Sangah' (Mina Fitzpatrick).
Jina's musical imprint, sincere with its diverse and unconventional score, is a reflection of this uniquely talented composer and musician's ascent across the entertainment music industry, and hopeful ascent across the League of Legends universe as Ziggs as her main choice of champion.
http://jinaanmusic.com
Mary Ancheta is a Vancouver, BC based Composer of Canadian - Filipina descent. A graduate of McMaster University with a B.A. in Music. You can hear her work in many shows such as: The L Word (Showcase), Snowpiercer (TNT), Tiny Pretty Things (Netflix), Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Ripley Underground, Word Travels, The Cleaner, Good Trouble (Freeform), Family Law (CTV), Jasmine Road (Indie Film), ETalk (CTV), The Flight Attendant (HB0), Kit Kat Com-mercial, Sony Memory Stick Commercial and more.
She most recently scored Snowkissed (Hallmark) My Best Friend’s Bouquet (Hallmark) as well as the Indie short Luz.
Mary Ancheta has a passion for storytelling and the human condition. She enjoys collaboration and her aim is to help tell more stories of diversity.
http://maryancheta.com/
Zong Chiang is an Award-Winning composer, currently based in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Taipei. Zong's soundtrack albums for "Dear Mom", "Ama's Momento" and "US", got awarded achievements from global film awards and festivals, including "2020 GSA BAFTA Student Film Awards," "Paris Art and Movie Awards," "Paris Play Film Festival Awards,” and "London City Film Award.”
Zong recently performed his "Global Honor Concert" with Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra in Taipei. Zong received his B.A. in Technology and Applied Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and his M.M in Screen Scoring program at the USC Thornton School of Music.
https://www.zongchiang.com
Cora (Yi-Huan) Chung is a composer and cellist from Taiwan. Her music has been performed and recorded at the Sound of Silent Film Festival in Chicago and 20th Century Fox Studios in 2019. She has received government scholarships for studying abroad from the Ministry of Education in Taiwan, and graduated from Columbia College in Chicago majoring in Music Composition for the Screen. She recently received a fellowship in the prestigious Sundance Institute Film Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound, and has been awarded with an Honorary Mention for the 2020 Peer Raben Music Award at Soundtrack Cologne.
https://www.corachung.com
Sid De La Cruz has composed music for films that have appeared on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, theaters, & video games. His feature film, Hell On The Border, is currently on Hulu and Amazon and won best Stuntman and Soundtrack at the NoIdentitiy Action Film Festival (2020). The documentary that he recently worked on, Songs of Little Saigon, is near completion and will be making its run in the film festival circuit. His latest action film, Insight, will be released in theaters and VOD in March. Sid is a member of The Television Academy, The Recording Academy & The Latin Recording Academy.
http://www.siddelacruz.com
James Goins
James composes music genres such as Orchestral, Contemporary Classical, Instrumental, Soundtrack, Jazz, and Soul. He has scored music for films, recording projects, musical theatre, and works designed for concert settings.
James is a member of BMI, The American Composers Forum, The Society of Composers & Lyricists, the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers, The National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., Composers Diversity Collective, and The Dramatist Guild of America. James has a BA in Theatre from California State University Dominguez Hills, an Executive MBA from Grand Canyon University. He completed his studies in composition and film scoring at UCLA.
www.jamesagoins.com
Pablo Langaine is a composer, and guitarist based in LA with an incredibly diverse range of skills that have enabled him to work in film, television, games, and the concert stage. His most relevant music department credits include Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (Guillermo del Toro) and Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games).
Langaine redefines authenticity from an intensely personal perspective, carrying diverse Latin American traditions from his native Mexico to the multi-cultural mecca of LA, where he fuses those sounds with jazz, classical, pop, and electronic music influences to forge a singular and ever-evolving sound.
Most recently, Langaine scored the original series "Tuning In", available on Amazon Prime, and co-founded the Music Supervision firm, Muse Tones.
langaine.com
Tony Morales
Tony Morales is an EMMY®-nominated composer who has traversed the worlds of drama, animation, comedy and documentary for both film and television. His latest projects include Amazon Prime's crime thriller series "Reacher" as well as the CNN original documentary series "Eva Longoria: Searching For Mexico" for which his score garnered him a 2023 EMMY nomination. Upcoming projects include season 2 of the hit Netflix action spy comedy series "FUBAR" and season 3 of "Reacher".
www.tonymoralesmusic.com
Ghiya Rushidat
Born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Jordan, and living in Los Angeles, Ghiya Rushidat is an award-winning composer for film, TV, video games, and concerts. Sundance Composers Lab fellow, a BMI Pete Carpenter Fellowship winner and judge at Le Petit Cannes Festival in France, Ghiya was mentored by several Oscar-winning and A-List composers such as James Newton Howard, Christopher Lennertz, and Christophe Beck and more. Her compositions were performed and debuted all over the world including prestigious Carnegie Hall, she continues to compose for projects and conduct orchestras around the world. Ghiya is also preparing for a degree in Neuroscience.
www.ghiya-rushidat.com
George Shaw
George’s origin story begins in his childhood, where he developed musical powers as a result of a childhood of exposure to Saturday morning cartoons and the movies of the 80s and 90s. A classically trained composer with a love for genre stories, comedy, and musicals, George has co-written a song with Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee, scored YouTube Premium’s longest running show ESCAPE THE NIGHT, and created the viral hit STAR WARS MUSICAL which spoofs Star Wars as a Disney musical.
http://georgeshawmusic.com
Kevin Smithers is a composer, arranger, songwriter and guitarist of a range of different musical styles. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico.
After finalizing his studies in London, Kevin was given a scholarship to study a masters degree in Scoring for Film, TV and Video Games at Berklee College of Music’s new campus in Valencia, Spain graduating Summa Cum Laude. There he further developed his skills in writing to picture, interactive music, and implementation.
Kevin now resides in Los Angeles, California where he continues to develop his own voice in the world of film, tv and video game music.
https://www.kevinsmithers.com/
Matthew Wang is an Asian American film and television composer who blends natural organic soundscapes with live instruments and electronic textures, creating atmospheres unique to each project. He is the composer of the documentary, Jeronimo (KBS) and thriller, Centigrade (IFC Midnight).
Born and raised in New York City, Matthew graduated from NYU Tisch in 2018. Since then, he has written music for shows including New Amsterdam (NBC), Shrill (HULU), Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (NBC), and Glow (Netflix). Additionally, Matthew has composed music for the Pharrell Williams Executive Produced Netflix Original Kids Show, Brainchild, as well as sonic-wellness app Spiritunes.
https://www.mattwmusic.com
COLONY THEATRE PARKING:
The Colony Theatre: 555 N. THIRD ST. BURBANK CA 91502
The Colony Theatre is located at the corner of 3rd Street and Cypress Avenue, and shares a parking garage with the Burbank Town Center Mall, where there is plenty of free parking.
Once you arrive at the Mall
Enter the parking garage on Third Street, between Cypress and Magnolia. (The sign says "East Garage, 501 N. 3rd Street" and is located next to Burlington Coat Factory) You will be on level 4, which is the one you want. Follow the signs to the Colony Theatre that you will see overhead. Drive to the end of the aisle and make a right. Drive to the end of that aisle and make another right.The theatre entrance is at Section 4e, in the northeast corner of the garage.