FACULTY AND STAFF

HUMMIE MANN

Hummie Mann is a two-time Emmy Award-winning composer/arranger/conductor and founding member of the Seattle Composers Alliance.

In 1997, he established the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program out of a commitment to share his industry knowledge and experience with music composition students and other composers who are interested in the art of composing music for film.

Hummie’s musical career began with piano lessons when he was seven years old, and by the age of 13 he was playing guitar and writing and recording songs that were featured on a radio program in his native Canada. He later earned a Bachelor’s degree in Composition from the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston.

His first professional arranging job came while he was serving as the musical director for a musical comedy show touring the United States. During a stop in California, Hummie was hired to arrange and produce the music for an American Cancer Society public service announcement, which was his first professional job in southern California. Soon after, he relocated to Los Angeles and began composing and orchestrating for a variety of television programs including Fame, Knots Landing, ALF, The Simpsons, and Moonlighting (for which he received two Emmy nominations).

Before devoting himself to composing full time, Hummie worked as an orchestrator and/or conductor on a variety of feature films including City Slickers, The Addams Family, A Few Good Men, Sister Act and Sleepless in Seattle.

As one of the few professionals to achieve a successful transition from orchestrator to composer, Hummie has established himself on the success of such highly-acclaimed scores as the ones he wrote for Peter Yates’ Year of the Comet and for the children’s film Thomas and the Magic Railroad. Among his other feature film credits are the scores to Mel Brooks’ Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Falltime, Benefit of the Doubt, and the IMAX film Cyberworld 3D—the world’s first computer-generated 3D IMAX film—which opened worldwide in October 2000 as the largest pre-sold IMAX film ever. For television he has scored the miniseries P.T. Barnum and In Cold Blood as well as many made-for-television movies, including The Rescuers: Tales of Courage - Two Women, The Second Civil War, and ...First Do No Harm.

But sharing his knowledge and experience with others remains central to Hummie’s personal and professional philosophies.

He began teaching courses as part of the UCLA Extension Film Scoring Program, and after moving to Seattle, continued by offering courses in film scoring through his Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program. Hummie also developed a program to teach eight-to-ten year olds how to build and play their own musical instruments, and he frequently assists promising young composers in internship programs or as a mentor.

As part of his ongoing commitment to working with young musicians, he collaborated with lyricist Sue Ennis on a concert work entitled Look In To The Sky, which was commissioned by Mercer Island High School and premiered by 250 music students in April, 2000. In addition to writing the work, he and Sue met with the students several times to involve them in the creation of the piece.

Hummie has also been a special guest at Paul Allen's Experience Art Camp, exposing children of a variety of ages to the art of film scoring. He has guest lectured at the University of Washington and Seattle Film Institute, and in 2001 and 2002 visited the People’s Republic of China as a member of an arts cultural exchange delegation.

In addition to winning two Emmys – the first for arranging Billy Crystal's opening number at the 1992 Academy Awards, the second for composing the score to an episode of Showtime's “Picture Windows” series called Language of the Heart (1996) - Hummie received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from his alma mater, Berklee College of Music, in 1998. He currently lives in Mercer Island, Washington, with his family and maintains a studio in West Los Angeles, California.

Institutions interested in inviting Hummie Mann to speak as a guest lecturer on the topic of film scoring may reach him through the Contact page.

Hummie Mann holds a Bachelors of Music with a Major in Composition, magna cum laude, from the Berklee College of Music.

TIM HULING

Tim Huling is a composer specializing in music for film, television and other media. Having been active in the field since 1998, Tim's music has been heard around the world in productions such as the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the PBS documentary "Inside Passage," the theatrical trailer for "Monster," and more. His arrangements and orchestrations have been featured in productions such as Showtime’s “Masters of Horror,” A&E’s “P.T. Barnum,” Universal’s “Georgia Rule,” and NCSoft's video game "Lineage: The Blood Pledge.”

After coming up through the esteemed jazz-education programs of Seattle, and attending Berklee College of Music in Boston (B.Mus Film Scoring, magna cum laude), Tim began his career under the mentorship of Hummie Mann when Hummie hired Tim to write period arrangements for A&E's "P.T. Barnum.” Since then, Hummie and Tim have worked on countless projects together, from recording the London Philharmonic at Abbey Road studios to the production of scores for films such as
"Cyberworld: 3D" and "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas" (composed by Hummie, orchestrated by Tim).

Tim has been teaching in the Pacific NW Film Scoring Program since 1999. Tim currently teaches the core curriculum for the Program’s evening classes and has taught nearly all the courses of the Program at one point or another.In addition to teaching in the Film Scoring Program, Tim runs a series of courses called The Composition Lab where students write original concert works and jazz compositions that are performed a few times a year by some of Seattle’s finest musicians.

Tim Huling holds a Bachelors of Music degree, magna cum laude, from Berklee College of Music.

DOUG ZANGAR

Doug has made Seattle his home since arriving in the late 70's to study jazz with Gary Peacock at Cornish College of the Arts. Since graduating 1982, he has been active in many areas of the music industry including performing, composing, and teaching.

As a guitarist he has toured with national acts including Vic Damone and Diahann Carrol and performed shows with Pavarotti, The Drifters, The 5th Dimension and many others. Locally he performs frequently for private events and occasionally in public venues.

As a composer he has written for industrial videos (Alaska Airlines, Uwajimaya, Washington Dairy Association), and film (Mother's Day, Tiptoes). Working in his home studio, he has collaborated with many vocalists and songwriters as a producer, arranger and performing musician, turning rough ideas into finished products.

He is currently an associate faculty member at Shoreline Community College where he has taught music theory, jazz improvisation, various instrumental ensembles, guitar classes and private lessons. As a faculty member of the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program he teaches midi technolgy on Apple's emagic Logic Audio. He is also a graduate of the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program.

Doug Zangar holds an Associates degree in Arts and Sciences from Columbia Basin College and a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Cornish College of the Arts.

SUE ENNIS

Sue Ennis is a Seattle songwriter. Since the mid-70's she has been co-writing songs with Ann and Nancy Wilson of the popular Seattle rock band HEART, with 30 million records sold internationally.

Sue co-penned such hits as "Dog and Butterfly," "Straight On," and "Even It Up," and she plays in the band The Lovemongers with Ann and Nancy Wilson. The band's version of "Battle of Evermore" was included in Cameron Crowe's 1993 film Singles. Sue has co-written songs for feature films including The Golden Child starring Eddie Murphy. She and film composer Hummie Mann wrote "Shining Time," a song featured in the 2000 film Thomas and The Magic Railroad. She also wrote lyrics and melodies for 12 songs on the progressive rock album "Spinning" by the Seattle band Treason.

Sue's volunteer job is to write childrens' songs for Thistle Theatre, a Seattle-based family puppet theatre. Every summer, she teaches songwriting and vocals at Experience Arts Camp, Paul Allen's arts camp for kids. She also teaches courses in The Business of Music, History of American Popular Music, and The Craft of Songwriting, as well as a Vocational Music Seminar, at Shoreline Community College in North Seattle. Her other collaborations include guitarist / Narada recording artist, Eric Tingstad ("Tingstad and Rumble"), with whom she has a publishing deal. Sue is currently co-writing a new HEART album with Ann and Nancy Wilson.

Sue Ennis holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Willamette University and an Master of Arts in German literature from the University of California-Berkeley.

PAT LAMBERT

Pat Lambert has been involved in the music industry as a recording and live sound engineer for over 15 years.

Starting in Live Sound in 1985, Pat turned his attention to recording in the early 90’s when he attended Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts in Florida. There he earned a degree in Audio Production. After working as a freelance recording engineer for several years, he joined the staff of Xtreme Studios in Seattle. Over a five year period, Pat garnered over 100 credits on major label recordings and feature film scores including Garth Brooks’ Double Live, Pearl Jam’s Pirate Radio Sessions and the Imax blockbuster Everest.

In 1999 Pat left Xtreme studios and joined Mackie Designs, Inc., where he is currently the Customer Service Manager responsible for overseeing the technical support of the entire line of professional audio products.

Outside of Mackie, Pat still works as a freelance engineer, taking on several album projects each year, as well as engineering and mixing the orchestral scores for the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program.

GUY WHITMORE

After finishing his Masters degree in composition and guitar performance from Southern Methodist University, Guy began creating music and sound-scapes for theater productions. A game audio gig dropped from the sky like pennies from heaven in 1994, and his game scoring career was underway.

After full time stints at Sierra, Monolith, and BootlegTV, Guy is now owner and Creative Director of Music Design Network, LLC. He has composed over 25 game scores, as well as writing for film, and commercial media. Recent titles include, Tron 2.0, No One Lives Forever 2, and Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza.

Guy has garnered many accolades, including a 1996 nomination for Best Soundtrack from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. He has spoken at GDC, DigiPen, Cornish College, Sputnik (IGDA-Seattle), and at IMX (Interactive Music Expo).

Guy also serves on Microsoft’s audio advisory board. He heads the Adaptive Audio Now work group of the IASIG (Interactive Audio Special Interest Group), and also co-founded the SCA (Seattle Composers Alliance).

Computer Games magazine called his score for No One Lives Forever "the best interactive music seen in an action game!"

RON PATTERSON

Violinist Ronald Patterson is the Professor of Violin and Chair of the Strings at the University of Washington School of Music, violinist in Duo Patterson, 1st Violin of the Rainier String Quartet, and Concertmaster of the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. He was a student of Jascha Heifetz, Eudice Shapiro and Manuel Compinsky.

Mr. Patterson has concertized extensively in the United States and Europe since the age of 11, performing 45 works (including 6 world premieres) in more than 150 solo performances with orchestra. He has been acclaimed for his "skill, authority and imagination" by The New York Times.

From 1965 to 1999, he was Concertmaster of the Monte-Carlo, Houston, Denver, and Miami symphonies, St. Louis Little Symphony and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He was a founder and Associate Professor of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University (Houston, 1974-1979). Assistant Professor at Washington University (St. Louis, 1967-1971), as well as on the faculty of Stetson University (Florida, 1975-1979), MacMurray College (Illinois, 1966) and the University of Miami (Florida, 1965).

Mr. Patterson has recorded for CRI, ERATO, ORION, VOX, Ante Aeternum, Virgin Classics, Serenus, Philips, and EMI. A five time First Prize Winner of the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, he has performed chamber music with some of the greatest musicians of our day, including Heifetz, Piatigorsky and Szeryng. In 1998 he was named Officier de l'Ordre du Merite Culturel, one of the Principality of Monaco's highest honors.

Ron Patterson studied with Jascha Heifetz at the University of Southern California, served as Concertmaster of the Miami Philharmonic under Fabien Sevitzky, and has served on the faculty of the University of Miami.

SCOTT SELFON

Scott Selfon works at Microsoft as the Xbox Senior Audio Specialist, assisting composers, sound designers, and audio programmers with technical and creative challenges in developing audio for games. In this position he has also played an active role in the development of the Microsoft Cross-Platform Audio Creation Tool (XACT), now available for both Windows and Xbox 360.

Scott has composed music for a wide range of media, including film, television, video games, and live performance. He is the principal violist of the Sammamish Symphony, performs regularly with the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra, is a member of the Encore Four string quartet, and founded and directed an a cappella group at the University of Washington for seven seasons. A regular lecturer and panelist at various game- and audio-related conferences, his works have been performed at Seattle’s Town Hall, the Kirkland Performing Arts Center, Meydenbauer Center, ACT (A Contemporary Theatre), Seattle Center, Bellevue Square, Redmond Town Center, and on both television and live radio broadcasts. He is the co-author of the book "DirectX Audio Exposed: Interactive Audio Development" (Wordware Publishing), recipient of the 2003 Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) Best Audio Publication award. Scott is a member of the Seattle Composers Alliance and the Game Audio Network Guild.

Scott is an alumnus of the University of Southern California, where he obtained dual degrees in music composition (film scoring emphasis) and computer engineering/computer science.