Bear McCreary Awarded 2024 Music Maestro Award from The Society of Composers & Lyricists and Electronic Arts

The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) and Electronic Arts Music (EA) have awarded Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning composer Bear McCreary with the 2024 Music Maestro Award, a prestigious honor which is given annually to music creators who have made significant contributions in the advancement of Nashville's media scoring industry.

SCL President Ashley Irwin presented the award to McCreary on Sept. 28 during the 3rd annual Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) Nashville Music Creator's Conference at a special reception hosted by SCL and Electronic Arts Music at Ocean Way Nashville Studios. McCreary is known for his incredible work creating music for series such as Outlander, The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the video games God of War, God of War Ragnarök, Call of Duty: Vanguard, and more. He is also a two-time winner of both the British Academy Games Award for Music and the D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition. Previous recipients of the Music Maestro Award have included composers Gordy Haab, Stephen Barton, and Pinar Toprak.

The Society of Composers and Lyricists is a non-profit and primary organization for professional film, television, video game, and musical theater composers and lyricists, and those working in our industry such as orchestrators, arrangers, music supervisors, music agents, music attorneys, music editors, copyists, recording engineers, and related jobs, with a distinguished, nearly 75-year history in the fine art of creating music for visual media.

The three-day conference held Sept. 27-29 was a convergence of some of the world's most illustrious composers and songwriters, up-and-coming creators, and top executives from across music, film, TV, and games industries. Highlights of the events dedicated to celebrating music for visual media and education included panel discussions with renowned composers Ryan Lott of Son Lux, Carlos Rafael Rivera, Rob Simonsen, and Gabriel Mann, who shared insight into their craft, careers, and stories behind the making of their most recent scores.

On Day One of the conference, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) hosted "Composer Conversations" at their Nashville office on Music Row, with three panels including an insightful discussion between an Academy Award-nominated and SCL Award-winning composer Ryan Lott (Everything Everywhere All At Once) and moderator Tracy McKnight, Vice President of Creative, Film, TV & Visual Media of BMI. SCL President Ashley Irwin moderated a panel with Emmy Award-winner composer Carlos Rafael Rivera, who has been celebrated for his success with scores for hit series such as The Queen's Gambit and Lessons In Chemistry. McKnight also moderated a panel with Rob Simonsen, a three-time Emmy Award-winning composer whose credits include major films such as The Whale, 500 Days of Summer, It Ends with Us, and Deadpool and Wolverine, the highest grossing film of 2024. Simonsen offered a behind-the-scenes look at his score for the blockbuster, as well as creating a new arrangement of Madonna's iconic song "Like a Prayer - Choir Version from Deadpool & Wolverine" which is featured in a key moment of the film.

On September 28, sixteen panels in association with ASCAP were held at Belmont University, including an educational discussion moderated by Irwin on "Building Your Team." On September 29, SESAC presented the unique "Composer and Director Conversation" panel featuring composer Gabriel Mann and director Tim Federle, who discussed their collaboration on two Disney+ projects, High School Musical - The Musical and Better Nate than Never.

About The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL)

The Society of Composers and Lyricists is a non-profit and primary organization for professional film, television, video game, and musical theater composers and lyricists, and those working in our industry such as orchestrators, arrangers, music supervisors, music agents, music attorneys, music editors, copyists, recording engineers, and related jobs, with a distinguished, nearly 75-year history in the fine art of creating music for visual media. Current SCL Members include the top creative professionals whose experience and expertise are focused on many of the creative, technological, legal, newsworthy and pressing issues of the film music, television music, game music, and musical theatre industry today.

For more information visit: www.TheSCL.com

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