JON Bingame teaches film-music history at the University of Southern California and has often hosted concerts and film-music events, including the San Francisco Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the American Youth Symphony in Los Angeles; appeared on stage to discuss film music at the Kennedy Center, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the Television Academy; and penned the notes for concerts from New York's Carnegie Hall to London's Royal Albert Hall and beyond. He is the winner of the Deems Taylor Award for music journalism and a BMI special citation for his writings and interviews on film and TV composers. He has appeared on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and other networks; and wrote the five-part series "The Score" for producer Phil Ramone. He hosted and produced a series of radio specials on great film composers for KUSC-FM; has contributed music-related commentaries to numerous DVDs; and written the liner notes for dozens of soundtrack albums over the past 30 years. He himself has produced several albums of classic television scores, including The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Dr. Kildare and Mission: Impossible.
Film and TV music historian.
