American Society of Music Arrangers & Composers

• Event, this Saturday: Dara Taylor on Combing Orchestral Sessions with Electronics: Marvel Studios’ Ironheart with orchestrator Nick Fevola, moderated by Glenn Jordan. Sat 16 May 2026, 12pm PDT (UTC-07).

• Tonight, concert: Elliot Deutsch’s Pandemonium Big Band feat. Richie “LaBamba” Rosenberg, Thu 14 May 2026, Catalina Jazz Club, Hollywood, CA. Doors at 7pm.
  Hang out with the ASMAC community and support Board member Elliot and ASMAC member LaBamba.

• Sat evening: Tribute to Mark Smythe at The Night Temple, Sat 16 May 2026, 7–10pm.

• Save the dates: ASMAC Conference, 7–10 October 2026, Evergreen Studios Scoring Stage, Burbank, CA USA.

• Articles: Read the Arrangers Of Note series. Also check out the new ASMAC Substack.

• Writing Opportunities:
  • Miles Davis Centennial Arranging Contest, due 26 May 2026.
  • Portland Symponic Choir Summer Sings New Works call for scores. due 1 July 2026.

• Interested in helping out ASMAC, volunteering? Send us a noteto let us know in which types of things you might be interested.

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ASMAC presents

Dara Taylor

Combining Orchestral Sessions with Electronics
Marvel Studios’ Ironheart

with orchestrator Nick Fevola

Moderated by Glenn Jordan

The characters of Ironheart are multi-faceted, rooted in technology, magic, emotion, grief. The score mirrors these facets combining scrappy percussion, gritty choir, dense electronics and soaring orchestra.

Composer Dara Taylor and orchestrator Nick Fevola dive deep into the process of carving out room for the various elements and letting them each sing either solo or in tandem.

LA 12 pm | NYC 3 pm | UK 8 pm
+1 day: 4am KR | 5am AU | 7am NZ

Dara Taylor is an award-nominated composer and a fresh voice in film and television scoring, known for her emotionally resonant and versatile work. Her credits include Amazon Studios’ The Tender Bar, directed by George Clooney, Universal Pictures’ Strays, starring Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx, and the Netflix/Tyler Perry film Straw, starring Taraji P. Henson. She is also the composer for the Marvel Studios series Ironheart, earning an NAACP Award nomination for Outstanding Original Score for Television/Film.

Her other notable work spans Netflix’s Meet Me Next Christmas (SCL Award-nominated), Black Barbie, and The Noel Diary, directed by Charles Shyer, as well as Sony Pictures’ The Invitation (SCL Award-nominated). Additional credits include Amazon’s The Boys: Diabolical, Warner Bros.’ Scoob! Holiday Haunt, Lionsgate’s Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (co-scored with Christopher Lennertz), the action crime drama Echo Boomers, Netflix’s Bookmarks, Universal/1440’s Curious George: Cape Ahoy, FX’s Pride, and documentaries such as Dawn Porter’s 37 Words and Power of the Dream. Dara is a Governor of the Recording Academy’s Los Angeles Chapter and an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy, the Composers Diversity Collective, the Society of Composers & Lyricists, and the Alliance of Women Film Composers.

Recent credits include orchestration on Dara Taylor’s scores for Straw(nominated by the SCL for Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film), Marvel’s Ironheart, The Invitation, and Meet Me Next Christmas, as well as Jeff Toyne’s Emmy-winning score for Palm Royale. Nick has also recently served as supervising music copyist on Austin Wintory’s score for Sword of the Sea(nominated by the SCL for Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media), Christopher Lennertz’s Emmy-winning “Let’s Put the Christ Back in Christmas” from The Boys, and Tim Wynn’s acclaimed score for Final Destination: Bloodlines.

Nick began his career in music preparation at Juliani Music shortly after graduating from the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program at the University of Southern California in 2007. Early in his career, he also assisted composers including Christopher Lennertz, Elia Cmiral, and Ron Fish, and provided support to the assistants of John Powell and Christophe Beck. His responsibilities ranged from administrative work to music preparation, score programming, and writing additional music. Over time, his role at Juliani Music has expanded to encompass all aspects of music preparation, from printing and taping to proofreading, copying parts, MIDI & audio transcription, orchestration, and project supervision.

Nick’s work regularly brings him to the scoring stages at Fox Studios in Century City, Sony Pictures in Culver City, and Warner Bros. in Burbank, serving as music librarian alongside some of LA’s top musicians and scoring professionals. He and the Juliani Music team have also worked on theme park and live performance projects for Disney through Christopher Lennertz, including Disneyland’s nighttime spectacular Wondrous Journeys, Rogers: The Musical,and a star-studded concert at the 2024 D23 convention in Anaheim featuring Meghan Trainor, John Stamos, and the Pentatonix.

Nick and his wife Summer are proud parents to their daughter Everly.

Glenn is an immensely versatile composer, whether writing the contemporary EDM and guitar driven styles of today’s underscores or composing and orchestrating pieces for The Indianapolis and Denver Symphony Orchestras.

He has composed the music for more than a dozen feature-length films as well as hundreds of episodes of network and cable television programs.

Glenn has received four Emmy nominations, winning the award for Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.

He has worked with stars such as Jennifer Aniston, Kanye West, Steve Martin, The Beach Boys, Morgan Freeman, Little Richard, and Shelly Duvall.

His song We All Love the Red Sox has become an integral part of the Boston Red Sox radio broadcasts in northern New England.

As a former member of the group Sha Na Na, he toured the world and performed for audiences as large as 135,000 people. He has also done countless sessions as a studio guitarist and vocalist.

Glenn is one of only 9 people in the world who is accredited to teach The Equal Interval System created by Lyle “Spud” Murphy. He has EIS musical composition students worldwide.

ASMAC 1st Wednesday Hang
Social Mixer, Pizza, New Music

Co-hosted by
ASMAC Vice Presidents Milton Nelson & Jeff Kellem
Board member Evita Wagner
Emerging Professionals Committee

Meet fellow ASMAC community members during John Mitchell's Flight 584 Big Band rehearsal night. Pizza at 7pm.

Bring new charts by 7:15pm.

Send email to info@asmac.org to let us know if you’ll be bringing a big band chart to read down.

Register now to let us know how much pizza to obtain.

Come hear some new arrangements! Possible new charts by Oliviana Marie, J Ryan Kern, Rick Hils, Milton Nelson, David Edelstein, and others.

Singers Gina Cantamessa, Dave Berges, and maybe others.

Flight 584 Big Band regularly plays arrangements by Sammy Nestico, Billy Byers, Bob Florence, Terry Gibbs, Bill Holman, Quincy Jones, Billy May, Glen Garrett, Milton Nelson, Don Nelligan, Oliver Nelson, Mike Barone, Tommy Newsom, Tom Kubis, and many other greats.

See photos from the August First Wednesday Hang.

The Mayflower Club
11110 Victory Blvd, North Hollywood
7–10 pm PT
$10 cover at the door is for The Mayflower Club,
the nonprofit social club.
*Flight 584 — 5 Saxes, 8 Brass, 4 Rhythm

7–10 October 2026

ASMAC Conference

Evergreen Studios
Burbank, CA USA

Please make plans to attend the ASMAC (American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers) weekend conference to be held at historic Evergreen Studiosin Burbank, CA from 7–10 October 2026.

The event will include workshops, panel discussions, and sessions on current issues and practices, including AI and changing conditions in our industry, an awards ceremony, and live music. Several pre-conference events are being planned, including big band jazz and chamber music events, an orchestra recording session, and studio tour.

Here’s your opportunity to network and meet the ASMAC colleagues you perhaps only know through Zoom.

Put this on your calendar!
Subject to change.