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WORDTheatre celebrates LANGSTON HUGHES
LANGSTON HUGHES: STORIES, POEMS, JAZZ & THE BLUES. As WORDTheatre’s Musical Director & arranger/composer, it was such an honor and thrill to work with this explosively talented cast of musicians and actors, using our combined gifts to support this Non-profit and its work in underserved schools.
Hollywood Independent Music Awards (HIMA) - July 18, 2024
Such a fun and inspiring night being a presenter at the HIMAwards @ The Avalon Theatre getting to see so many dear friends and present awards for some gorgeous music, along with the wonderful Shelly Peiken, Jud Friedman, Allan Rich, & J Ivy. Huge congrats to all the winners, especially Jennifer Thomas, and to Kitt Wakeley for his project with Aaron Lazar & Josh Groban. Many thanks to Brent Harvey for always creating such special events and get togethers!
Laguna Festival Of Arts - Pageant Of The Masters - The Art Of Fashion (July 8 - August 30, 2024)
A very unique and beautiful show this year - the Art of Fashion is the theme. Always a joy to compose music for this orchestra and so many thanks to Dee Challis & Dan Duling for their vision and to the incredibly talented musicians for bringing our music to life once again this year.
AMPE panel at USC Thorton School Of Music - June 6, 2024
Beautiful time at the USC Thornton School of Music speaking on a panel with fellow Grammy winning producers Rafa Sardina & Jeff Fair and having a chance to advise and hang out with some amazing students and attendees. Thanks to Lee Whitmore & Focusrite for hosting this wonderful event.
Check out My Featured Cameo - From the new Jon Bon Jovi Documentary on HULU
Our Bond Theme - Live at the O2 Arena London
One of the really wonderful early projects I got into as a composer was scoring Film Trailers for MGM/UA with Jeff (we scored almost all their trailers as well as logos for 9 years!). One of the pinch me moments was when they asked us to re-imagine the BOND theme for the release of Goldeneye. It ended up being one of their most popular versions of the theme and was used in several of their Bond campaigns (DAD & TWINE) going forward as well as receiving a Gold Record.
Sharing our arrangement/version of the BOND theme that was recently performed live at the The O2 Arena in London, to open the show. Many thanks to Really, 007 and Tom Pickup for letting us know about the concert. Love that this version of the theme continues to live on & feel very honored to be a part of it's history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5xqDeHBAFQ
The Alliance for Women Film Composers - Starr Parodi Spotlight interview
Many thanks to the Alliance for Women Film Composers for this wonderful Spotlight!! and to composer/recording artist and AWFC board member Lili Haydn for the interview & such thoughtful questions
Going To The Oscars - Dolby Theater - 2024
NPR CapRadio interview with host Jennifer Reason 3/8/24 to kick off International Women’s Day
THANK YOU to NPR Station CapRadio KXPR FM and host extradordinaire - recording artists/pianist, Jennifer Reason for inviting to be your guest kicking off International Women's Day & including my music in your beautiful playlist!. Hear me talking about the amazing - Alliance for Women Film Composers, my work with Kitt Wakeley, Jeff Fair, (featuring vioin soloist Wenlan Jackson), my solo piano work on my Albums "Common Places" & "The Heart of Frida", Women Warriors: The Voices of Change produced by Amy Andersson, Lolita Ritmanis Mark Mattson & The Festival of Arts/Pageant of the Masters.
Listen: https://shorturl.at/qvCR1
Carnegie Hall premiere of Starr’s solo piano compositions performed by Dzintra Erliha
- Feb 9th 8pm
To my NYC friends - the wonderful Latvian pianist Dzintra Erliha will be having her Carnegie Hall debut THIS Friday Feb 9th 8pm and will be premiering some of my piano compositions.
I'm so thrilled that she is performing my music along with such talented composers - Lolita Ritmanis Esin Ozlem Aydingoz Leanna Primiani Dace Aperane Sabīne & Ķezbere Pēteris Vasks
If you're in NY, this will be an amazing night of music!!
Playing piano at the SHE ROCKS AWARDS - Jan. 25 - with Laura Karpman, playing her beautiful theme for her OSCAR® nominated score to AMERICAN FICTION. with Elena Pinderhughes (Flute), Jermaine Paul (bass), Ele Howell (drums)
YOURS IN FREEDOM, BILL BAIRD premieres Nov. 10 at DOC NYC
Film by 2x Oscar® nominated director Rebecca Cammisa, producers Sarah Nörenberg and Walter Köhler,
Score by Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Starr Parodi, Amelia Allen & featuring “WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?” song written and performed by Louis Price, Starr Parodi, Jeff Eden Fair
WORDTheater 20th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday Nov 2
I absolutely love playing piano, arranging/orchesrating and music directing for this wonderful group WORDTheatre. Celebrating the incredible Lily Tomlin & Charles Yu with readings by so many great actors including Sharon Stone, Spencer Garrett, Bruce Vilanch, Marcia Gay Harden, Alfred Molina... SUUVI (cello) & I will be playing with two incredible artists/vocalists Amy Keys/Music & Antonique Smith.
Such a joy to make music with them! Thank you Cedering Fox for all you do!! ART BRINGS LIGHT TO THE WORLD
GRAMMY MUSEUM CONCERT WITH MATT B. Oct. 8, 2023
Some photos from the Concert at the Grammy Museum with Matt B., Starr Parodi - keys, MB Gordy - Percussion, Lili Hayden - Violin, Brent Fisher conducting strings, and some fun photos from the studio during recording.
Special Thanks to Christopher Mallamaci and AVID for hosting this wonderful event!!
DOLBY ATMOS MIX OF “AN ADOPTION STORY” released Sept. 2023
It was so brilliant to be able to hear the London Symphony Orchestra, all the incredible soloists in this immersive sonic world. Mixed by Empress of Sound Eva Reistad & Matt Cerritos, Mastered by Michael Romanowski and Produced by Starr Parodi, Jeff Fair & Kitt Wakeley. The Dolby Atmos mix album is out NOW!!!
MATT B.’s beautiful album ALKEBULAN
just released
Produced by -
MAtt B. Angela V. Benson, Starr Parodi, Jeff Fair, Kitt Wakeley.
Mixed by Bobby Summerfield, Mastered by Dave Kutch
Membership in the Music Branch of the Motion Picture Academy
With deepest gratitude & joy I would like to share that I've been invited to join as a member of the Music Branch of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences. I am so humbled and want to thank the members of the Music Branch that supported and sponsored me. Thank you so much for this great honor - I'm looking forward to serving with my peers in this wonderful group and contributing to the community.
Concert at The Ford Theater
Beautiful Saturday eve making music with such a stellar group of musicians, actors & singers at The Ford with WORDTheatre raising money for kids and literacy. The concert was all about the history and re-evolution of jazz - it did my heart so much good to play with such inspiring players and be a part of telling such an important story of a true American art form. WHAT A freaking amazing BAND!! Terrace Martin was the featured guest on alto, Wayne Bergeron trumpet, Logan Richardson sax, Remee Ashley trombone, Clayton Cameron drums, Nedra Wheeler bass, Kevin Ricard percussion, SUUVI cello, Janet Robin banjo, KnickSmith (JellyRoll piano). and yours truly as Music director, Arranger/orchestrator & pianist:-) vocalists & actors Antonique Smith, Tracey Thoms, Michole Briana White, Keith David, Glynn Turman, Gary Dourdan, Jason George, Alfred Molina, Maria Bello, Joseph Marcell, Iona Morris Jackson, Visionary of all things Cedering Fox and my partner in orchestration Jonathan Sacks
ONE LONG RIVER OF SONG - AT THE GRAMMY MUSEUM WITH WORDtheater
Produced by Cedering Fox with readings of the works of Brian Doyle . Music composed & arranged by Starr Parodi and performed by Antonique Smith, Suuvi and Starr. June 1, 2023
FESTIVAL OF ARTS - PAGEANT OF THE MASTERS
Playing all summer at the Irvine Bowl in Laguna Beach. Here’s a few pics from rehearsal with the orchestra & director Dee Challis. Such a pleasure to be part of this great production - this year Jeff & I composed a suite called “The Land of Enchantment” centering around the Taos Artists colony.
Guest Speaker at UCLA - Gloria Cheng’s Masterclass
Starr Parodi is guest speaker for Concert Pianist, Educator, Musician extraordinaire Gloria Cheng’s class of Graduate students at UCLA.
An Adoption Story wins Grammy®
Starr Parodi, Kitt Wakeley & Jeff Eden Fair win the Grammy® in Best Classical Compendium Album for their work on Kitt Wakeley’s incredible An Adoption Story. You can listen to it here.
Women Warriors wins Society Of Composers & Lyricists Jury Award
February 16, 2023 - Amy Andersson along with Starr, Lolita Ritmanis, Sharon Farber, Penka Kouneva, Miriam Cutler, Nathlie Bonin, Isolde Fair and Anne-Kathrin Dern were honored by the SCL with the 2023 Jury Award for their work on the 2022 Grammy® award winning Women Warriors: The Voices Of Change project.
The Storied Life Of A.J. Fikry Score - selected as Best Score For A Comedy Film 2022
Movie Music International has selected our score for THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY as their Best Score For A Comedy 2022. You can read Jon Mansell’s review here
AN ADOPTION STORY
feat. Starr Parodi & The London Symphony - Nominated for 2023 GRAMMY® Award
November 15, 2022 - Kitt Wakeley’s AN ADOPTION STORY featuring Starr Parodi & The London Symphony and produced by Starr Parodi, Jeff Fair and Kitt Wakeley has been nominated for the 2023 Grammy® in the CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM category. You can listen HERE.
Lakeshore Records set to release THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY original soundtrack - Dec. 9, 2022
The Storied Life Of A.J. Fikry, with original score by Starr Parodi & Jeff Eden Fair hits theaters Oct. 7, 2022
Kitt Wakeley’s
AN ADOPTION STORY
featuring Starr Parodi & The London Symphony drops Sept.28
Starr’s Composition and Performance on
JOY OF THE WATERS
wins GRAMMY® as part of the
WOMEN WARRIORS:
The Voices Of Change album.
Listen Here
Oscar Winners Jennifer Hudson, H.E.R. Score Grammy Nominations in Visual Media Categories
From Variety Nov 23, 2021 12:44pm PT
…And “Women Warriors: The Voices of Change,” a symphonic album written entirely by women film composers, was nominated in the classical compendium category. Conductor Amy Andersson, and producers Lolita Ritmanis and Mark Mattson were cited as nominees. Composers included Nathalie Bonin, Miriam Cutler, Anne-Kathrin Dern, Isolde Fair, Sharon Farber, Penka Kouneva, Starr Parodi and Ritmanis.
Joy Of The Waters
wins Hollywood Music In Media Award (HMMA) for best Contemporary Classical release
November 17, 2021
Honors were awarded in more than 30 categories at Wednesday’s 12th annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards, with singer-songwriters like Billie Eilish, H.E.R., Adam Levine and Rufus Wainwright being celebrated in the live webcast as well as composers including Hans Zimmer, Rachel Portman, Starr Parodi, Alberto Iglesias, Joy Ngiaw and Nicholas Britell.
The HMMAs reward songwriters, composers and performers in fields that include not just film and TV work but everything from video games to commercials.
Nominations are given in multiple genres, which allows for a series of short lists that members of the Academy’s music branch and Grammys may end up studying as they vote for the their upcoming awards.
Starr Parodi’s Joy Of The Waters is a featured work on the Grammy® nominated Women Warriors: Voices Of Change album.
The awards can be viewed here through Jan.1, 2022 - https://www.hmmawards.com/
gen:LOCK season 2
premieres on HBO Max
November 4, 2021
Excited to share this Michael B. Jordan project I have LOVED scoring over the past few months. The story, writing and animation, so brilliant and inspiring. WHAT A CAST!
The GoGos, Nancy Wilson (Heart), Amy Lee (Evanessence), Starr Parodi, Margaret Cho and others honored at this year’s - She Rocks Awards. Jan. 22nd, 2021
Watch the show and all the performances here. Starr and and her daughter Isolde Fair give a special performance of Rise at 42:04
Women Warriors:
The Voices Of Change -
Joy Of The Waters
nominated in HMMA’s Contemporary Classical category
Tune in online - November 17, 2021
Headliner
Headliner catches up with multi-award-winning, musician, arranger and former president of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, Starr Parodi, as she discusses her path into music and the Steinberg gear she cannot do without…
From composing music for some of the biggest titles in film and TV over the past 30 years, to playing in the Arsenio Hall house band, Starr Parodi has notched up a sparkling array of credits.
From James Bond and Harry Potter, to Transformers and a wide range of network TV hits, her work can be heard in some of Hollywood’s biggest productions.
She is also an active campaigner for gender diversity across the industry, currently sitting on the board of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, where she also served as president for two years.
Here, she sits down for a Zoom call with Headliner to discuss her incredible career to date..
Did you always know that you wanted to get involved in film scores? How did you make your start in the composing world?
I started playing piano when I was really young, and when I was about 14 I got hooked on music and I just knew that that was going to be my path.
What was your big break?
I was working as a pianist and synth player and was writing some demos for scoring. I sent a cassette to one of the busiest TV writers at the time and he hired me at a really young age. He had an orchestra and he hired me to write for him and do some orchestration. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the …
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Oct. 29, 2020 - What Do You Think Of That? This song was originally started several years ago, not very long after the Sandy Hook incident. We had been playing a concert at an elementary school in celebration of Black History month.
Afterwards, we were talking at breakfast when the topic of gun violence and schools came up, and through our conversation we decided to come back to my studio and start writing this song. We were inspired by the great social messaging and protest work of so many great soul artists of the 70s and how so many of their songs were still so relevant.
Working with Louis is always a window into the sincerity of the artistry of that era, where he was front and center as the young lead singer of R&B supergroup, the Temptations. More importantly, Louis himself is survivor of gun violence, and still has a bullet lodged in his body. Louis is amazing and inspiring as you can tell by listening to his one person a cappella bridge that we recorded at 1 in the morning, where he breaks into an incredible harmony with himself.
WDYTOT, being firmly retro-soul, also inspired me to play my vintage snakeskin (not real snakeskin!) covered Fender Rhodes and make it the central keyboard voice for the song. As happens with life and so many ideas, stuff happens and deadlines and projects get prioritized. Earlier this year, as 2020 got more and more crazy, Louis & I rediscovered What Do You Think Of That, and its recording and the lyrics & pertinence to today’s social/political environment were more connected than ever. It’s a message of making injustice something that is called out by both our voices and actions. People must come together and support each other to make our society more just, and reverse the course that we have been on. We must celebrate each other rather follow a path of division and hate. So as the craziness of 2020 has unfolded, we realized we had to finish WDYTOT and get it out to the world.
“it’s as if the duo is holding up a mirror and asking us not only what we think, but what we’re going to do personally and collectively to make enduring, meaningful changes that make a difference.” - J.W. Vibe
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Oct. 9, 2020
Lucciola translates to Firefly in Italian, They are beautiful and bring such a brilliant colourful energy to our world. I hope this piece I wrote and recorded on my Steinway prepared with fabric and felt brings you a sense of light, energy and gentleness. Sheet music available here.
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Sept. 18, 2020
When I score films I will often treat or prepare my Steinway with different types of fabric, felt or other items to give the piano a darker, more harmonically complex and intimate sound. It also exposes the sound of the inner workings of the instrument and illuminates the sound of the moving wood, felt and metal. I have decided to release some pieces that I have written using these techniques, which take the listener on a warm and intimate journey. The first of these pieces is called "I Sama Bili" which translated from Icelandic literally means "in this very moment". When you listen I hope it helps suspend time for you as it it does for me.
Sheet music is available here.
American Songwriter Podcast NetworkShe Rocks Podcast - American Songwriter-
July 8, 2020
Isolde Fair & Starr Parodi Talk About a Rising Music Career on ‘She Rocks’
Now featured on Whisperings - solopianoradio.com
The Other Side of OK - New Solo Piano released March 20 on all major streaming and download services…Listen on Spotify
Women Warriors: The Voices Of Change
Orchestra Moderne NYC is at Lincoln Center.
Join us September 20th, 2019 for the world premiere of Women Warriors: The Voices of Change! This live-to-screen concert features celebrated film composers Starr Parodi, Lolita Ritmanis, Sharon Farber, Nathalie Bonin, Penka Kouneva, Miriam Culter, Anne-Kathrin Dern, Mandy Hoffman, and Isolde Fair. This special evening celebrates activists who fight for educational and civil rights for girls, climate change, gender equality and more.
This game-changing event will set a new standard for orchestra concerts that are socially relevant and inspiring!
Trailer here:
https://www.facebook.com/100009410843531/posts/2292258777764461/
Starr Parodi
& Christine Brown
in concert
Join pianists and composers Starr Parodi & Christine Brown for an adventurous evening of solo piano.
7:30pm Sat. Oct. 27, 2018
Encinitas Library - 540 Cornish Drive - Encinitas, CA
click here for tix: https://bit.ly/2CD2Ab9
Composer Collective Concert
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Topanga, CA
Saturday September 28, 2018 - 8:00pm
I'm really looking forward to performing some of my music arranged for piano and string quintet at this very special concert.
Callaghan will be joining me as a guest for a performance of our song "Broken" as well. So honored to be included with such artistic and creative company.
Featured Artist, Danny Elfman will also be premiering a new work for Chamber Group.
Tix are available at this link https://red.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?e=ce951c019b2d5209981e4e451542080a&t=tix
Laguna Arts/Pageant Of The Masters - PBS ART TALK
If you're in the Laguna/Orange County area please come out this Wednesday afternoon at 1pm to hear Jeff Fair & I talk with the director/producer Dee Challis & writer Dan Duling of the Laguna Festival of Arts/Pageant of the Masters about the process of composing music for the orchestra of this unique & wonderful show. I'll also be playing some themes on the piano.
Hope to see you there!!