2:00 – 2:30pm EST

Welcome to VGM Academy LIVE!

With Dan Hulsman, creator of VGM Academy

Music educator and entrepreneur, creator of VGM Academy, the #21DaysofVGM challenge, and your host for VGM Academy Live!  Dan will kick things off by talking about the event, what to expect, and how to best enjoy the entire event, and give a brief overview of the day’s sessions. Join me as we kick off the first ever VGM Academy LIVE!

2:45 – 3:45pm EST

Interview and Q&A: Jason Graves

Join us for a live interview and Q&A with 2-time BAFTA award-winner Jason Graves!  Credits include The Dark Pictures Anthology, Moss, Tomb Raider, The Order: 1886, Dead Space series, and Until Dawn.

4:00 – 5:00pm EST

Interview and Q&A: Grant Kirkhope

Join us for a live interview and Q&A with Grant Kirkhope!  BAFTA, ASCAP and IFMCA nominated Composer. Composed scores for Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, Banjo-Kazooie, and creator of the immortal DK Rap.

5:15 – 6:15pm EST

Interview and Q&A: Winifred Phillips

Join us for a live interview and Q&A with Winifred Phillips!  Composer for Spyder, Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation, God of War, LittleBigPlanet, and SimAnimals.  Author of the best-selling book: A Composer’s Guide to Game Music.

8:00 – 8:30pm EST

Performance: Holland Albright

Nothing winds down the day like some beautiful piano music.  Join us for a live mini-concert by composer Holland Albright.  Holland recently performed a live concert in NYC, and performed on the main stage at PAX East with Austin Wintory and Darren Korb.

2:00 – 2:15pm EST

Kick-off with Dan Hulsman, VGM Academy

Join Dan for a brief overview of the upcoming sessions for the day!

2:30 – 3:30pm EST

Workshop: Making your first $1,000 with music, with Steven Melin

Join us for a special workshop with Steven Melin to learn how to start actually making money with your music.  Steven is a composer for film, TV, and games, best-selling author of The Family-First Composer, best-selling course creator on Udemy.

3:45 – 4:45pm EST

Interview and Q&A: Darren Korb

Join us for a live interview and Q&A with Darren Korb! Darren is Audio director and composer for SuperGiant Games.  Credits include Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, and Hades. Baker of cakes.

5:00 – 6:00pm EST

Interview and Q&A: Penka Kouneva

Join us for a live interview and Q&A with Penka Kouneva!  Composer for League of Legends – Legends of Runeterra, Prince of Persia: the Forgotten Sands, multiple VR games, and NASA’s Heroes and Legends exhibit.

8:00 – 8:30pm EST

Performance/Workshop: Samantha Ballard

During this live performance, Samantha will not only play amazing music for you – she’ll also give you tips for composing/arranging music for the harp. Samantha is a professional harpist, recording artist, and arranger focused on video game music, anime, film and original compositions.  She is currently working on an upcoming album of harp arrangements from Octopath Traveller.

2:00 – 2:15pm EST

Kick-off with Dan Hulsman, VGM Academy

Join Dan for a brief overview of the upcoming sessions for the day!

2:30 – 3:30pm EST

Interview and Q&A: Inon Zur

Join us for a live interview and Q&A with EMMY award-winner and 3-times BAFTA nominated Inon Zur!  Credits include The Elder Scrolls: Blades, Fallout series, Dragon Age series, and Prince of Persia seris.

3:45 – 4:45pm EST

Workshop: Composing for Piano, with Sydney Kjserstad

In this workshop, you’ll learn tips about composing for piano for non-piano-players.  Sydney is a composer, producer, pianist, and teacher,  community leader of Smart Game Piano – an online community for people who want to learn to play piano through game music.

5:00 – 6:00pm EST

Performance: Austin Wintory & Angela Bermúdez

Join us for a special collaborative performance, Dialogos: a fusion of speed painting and musical improvisation.

Austin’s composition credits include Journey, Pathless, Abzu, Erica, John Wick Hex, the Banner Saga, and Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate.

 Angela is a painter, sculptor, cosplayer, and performance artist.  Upon discovering the world of speed painting, she formed the duet “Viajeros,” with composer Austin Wintory and the two have been performing all over the world ever since.

6:15 – 7:15pm EST

Interview and Q&A: Gareth Coker

Join us for a live interview and Q&A with Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences award-winning composer Gareth Coker!  Credits include Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Ori and the Blind Forest, Darksiders Genesis, Minecraft Mythology series, and ARK: Survival Evolved.

2:00 – 2:15pm EST

Kick-off with Dan Hulsman, VGM Academy

Join Dan for a brief overview of the upcoming sessions for the day!

2:30 – 3:30pm EST

Interview and Q&A: Tom Salta

Join us for a live interview and Q&A with composer, producer, and solo artist Tom Salta!  Credits include Halo franchise, Tom Clancy franchise, Prince of Persia, Killer Instinct S3, Wolfenstein series, and PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG).

3:45 – 4:45pm EST

Interview and Q&A: Shota Nakama

Join us for a live interview with composer, producer, and CEO Shota Nakama!  Creator of the Video Game Orchestra and CEO of soundtrec, his credits include Code Vein, God Eater series, Kingdom Hearts series, and Final Fantasy series.

5:00 – 6:00pm EST

Interview and Q&A: Will Roget

Join us for a live interview and Q&A with Will Roget!  Credits include Mortal Kombat 11, Call of Duty: WWII, Star Wars: Vader Immortal, Destiny 2: Forsaken, and Lara Croft: Temple of Osiris.

6:15 – 6:30pm EST

Game Over! with Dan Hulsman, VGM Academy

Join Dan from VGM Academy one more time for some closing comments, thoughts, gratitudes, and maybe a special surprise…?