This course focuses on the art of music editing for film and television. Discover how music drives narratives, evokes emotions, and learn the essential techniques and tools used in the industry. Join us to elevate your skills in crafting impactful soundtracks.
Guest Speakers
Motion Picture and Television Music Editor
Shari Johanson
Shari Johanson is a NYC-based music editor who has been working in the film and television industry for nearly 30 years. She is currently working on the show BILLIONS Season 7 and ALASKA DAILY starring Hilary Swank. She has recently collaborated with Idina Menzel on her documentary IDINA MENZEL: WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE in addition to others such as Robin Wright on her Directorial debut film LAND. Additional Directors she has worked with are Cary Fukanaga, Paul Schrader, Kevin Smith and Milos Forman.
Shari won a Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award for Best Music Editing for her work on the film HIGH FIDELITY, and was also nominated for Showtime’s BILLIONS, as well as for the Netflix limited series MANIAC, and HBO’s BAD EDUCATION.
For a full list of credits, visit: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0777438/.
Composer & Music Supervisor
Jonathan Zalben
Jonathan Zalben creates compelling soundtracks for picture drawing on his decades-long experience in music, film, television, and media art. He studied violin and music composition at Juilliard Pre-College, Yale, and NYU. Zalben's media art has been viewed at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, MASS MoCa, Boston Public Library, Sony Wonder Technology Lab in New York City, and art galleries around the world. He won an award for his media art collaboration, Compound Pilot, at SXSW. In 2023 he was nominated for a Guild of Music Supervisors Award for "Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes" directed by Peter Schnall for PBS.
You can read more about him at www.jonathanzalben.com.
Music Supervisor and Music Editor
Sucheta Sachdev
Sucheta Sachdev began her TV and film career in Production at the Discovery Channel in Washington DC. Impressed by her musical sensibilities on the series she wrote and produced, she was recruited by Discovery’s Music division to run the New York office for all things music. This included working as Music Supervisor for hit series such as Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (TLC), Outdaughtered (TLC), Alaskan Bush People (DSC), Cash Cab (DSC), Naked and Afraid (DSC). She soon learned however, that she was much more interested in Music Editing, and pivoted into this role by working as an assistant under the amazing and talented Shari Johansen. They worked together on Billions, Super Pumped!, and Betty S2. Since then, Sachdev has worked as Music Editor on additional series and feature films.