Mason Daring, the composer of the music score for the Secret of Roan Inish, will kick off the evening’s screening of the film. Mr. Daring will speak about his work melding music to
moving images and the creative process this type of composition entails.

Mason Daring is a film composer, record producer, and former Associate Professor of Berklee College of Music. He maintains homes in Savannah, Georgia, Marblehead ,Massachusetts, and Pawlet, Vermont. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Suffolk Law School, and a member of the Massachusetts bar. He has composed music for over 75 feature films, including 16 with John Sayles, including Eight Men Out, Passionfish, Matewan, Lone Star, The Secret of Roan Inish, and Go For Sisters. He was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy in 2001, and the Chicago Critics award in 1995. He has worked with such established producers and directors as Wes Craven, (Music of the Heart) Tom Hanks( Earth to the Moon),  Tony Goldwyn (Walk on the Moon) and Matt Williams ( Where the Heart Is).  In addition to dramatic scoring, Mason Daring has written scores for dozens of documentaries, He co-wrote the theme for the PBS series Frontline, which is the longest running TV theme currently on the air (40 years). For over twenty years he was the proprietor of Daring Records, a subsidiary of Rounder Records in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he produced such well known artists as Butch Thompson,  Jeanie Stahl ( with whom he has performed nationally for almost fifty years), Duke Levine, and Guy Van Duser and Billy Novick. For further information please consult his homepage at Masondaring.com, or IMDB or Wickepedia.  He can be reached at masondaring@gmail.com.

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