{"id":86,"date":"2019-01-27T14:16:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T19:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/filmscoring\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2020-12-28T08:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T13:35:32","slug":"mark-watters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/bealinstitute\/mark-watters\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watters"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”87″ img_size=”full”][vc_custom_heading text=”To learn more about Mark, visit his website at markwatters.com” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markwatters.com”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Mark Watters<\/h3>\n

Associate Professor of Contemporary Media & Film Composition<\/em>
\nDirector, Beal Institute for Film Music and Contemporary Media<\/em><\/p>\n

Emmy Award-winning composer and conductor Mark Watters\u2019 vast resume includes music for motion pictures, television, DVD, video games, and special events such as the Olympics. In addition to serving as director of the Beal Institute, Watters oversees Eastman\u2019s newly established Master of Music degree in Contemporary Media\/Film Composition and teaches graduate courses.<\/p>\n

Watters holds the distinction of serving as music director for two Olympics\u2014the 1996 Centennial Games in Atlanta and the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City\u2014which garnered him two of his six Emmys.\u00a0 He also received Emmys for Outstanding Music Direction for\u00a0Movies Rock<\/em>; Outstanding Music for\u00a0True Life Adventure Alaska: Dances of the Caribou<\/em>; and two Outstanding Music Direction and Composition Daytime Awards for\u00a0Disney\u2019s, Aladdin<\/em> and Steven Spielberg\u2019s, Tiny Toon Adventures<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Watters\u2019 film credits include scores for MGM\u2019s\u00a0The Pebble and the Penguin<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0All Dogs Go to Heaven 2<\/em>, and for Disney\u2019s\u00a0Doug\u2019s First Movie<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Get a Horse<\/em>, the Oscar nominated animated short featuring characters from 1920s Mickey Mouse cartoons that accompanied the theatrical release of\u00a0Frozen<\/em>. In addition, his music can be heard on almost two dozen direct-to-video\/DVD releases, including\u00a0Aladdin and the King of Thieves, The Return of Jafar, Mickey\u2019s Twice Upon a Christmas,<\/em>\u00a0and Winnie-the-Pooh and Springtime with Roo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Television viewers have heard his music across several networks and channels including CBS, ABC, NBC, Hallmark, and Disney on such series as\u00a0Paradise<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Little Mermaid<\/em>, made-for-TV movies including\u00a0The Longshot<\/em>, and documentaries such as\u00a0Medal of Honor<\/em>\u00a0and the nature series\u00a0True Life Adventures<\/em>. Watters has also created original scores for theater productions of\u00a0The Raft of the Medusa<\/em>,\u00a0Snitch<\/em>, and\u00a0Hamlet<\/em>. Watters\u2019s video games music oeuvre includes\u00a0Coraline<\/em>, two\u00a0Ben 10<\/em>\u00a0installments,\u00a0Toy Story 3<\/em>,\u00a0Cars Mania<\/em>,\u00a0Disney Princesses 1<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a02<\/em>, and\u00a0Disney Fairies: Tinkerbell<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Watters has guest conducted such orchestras such the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the New York Pops, and many others. In 2002, John Williams asked him to co-conduct the Academy Awards.\u00a0 In 2015, Watters led the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in a concert saluting 90 years of Disney animation, for which he also wrote new scores for two recently discovered late-1920\u2019s \u201cOswald the Lucky Rabbit\u201d shorts. He conducted three \u201cStar Wars in Concert\u201d tours, including one in Japan with the Tokyo Philharmonic. In 2019, he guest conducted the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in live-to-picture performances of Star Wars: A New Hope.<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition, Watters has worked as a conductor for individual artists Trisha Yearwood, Carrie Underwood, Beyonc\u00e9, Mary Jo Blige, John Legend, Sting, Barry Manilow, Jessye Norman, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and others.<\/p>\n

Before joining the Eastman faculty, Watters also taught film scoring at the UCLA Extension and for Columbia College of Chicago. He is a former president of the Society of Composers and Lyricists and served several terms on the prestigious Television Academy\u2019s Board of Governors and was Co-Chair of the Academy\u2019s Creative Arts Emmy Awards Committee. Recent projects include serving as music director for\u00a0the highly acclaimed animated series \u201cHave A Laugh,\u201d a\u00a0three-year project to restore and re-record 60 classic Disney shorts from the\u00a0\u201930s and \u201940s.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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