MUSIC4GAMES SPONSORS THIRD ANNUAL COMPOSER EXPO

Music4Games.Net (www.music4games.net), the award-winning video game music industry website, today announced its partnership with Global Media Online as a media sponsor for this year's "The Composer Expo" (www.composerexpo.com).

Music4Games.Net is widely considered by composers, game developers,
publishers, audio directors and music supervisors to be the premier
resource for video game music news and infotainment.

Newly expanded this year to Los Angeles and New York, The Composer Expo East takes place on September 20th at The Director's Guild Theater in New York and The Composer Expo West takes place on September 27th at The Renaissance Montura LAX Hotel in Los Angeles.

The Composer Expo features video game music panels with award-winning composers - Garry Schyman (BioShock, Destroy All Humans!)
Inon Zur (Prince of Persia, Fallout 3, Crysis) Jack Wall (Mass Effect, Jade Empire, Myst IV) Jesper Kyd (Assassin's Creed, Hitman, Kane & Lynch)
Laura Karpman (EverQuest II, Dark Kingdom: Untold Legends) Lennie Moore (Dirty Harry, Outcast) Tom Salta (Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, Red Steel) Ron Fish (God of War, God of War II).

In addition to the video game panels, the 2-day event will feature panels
on the art and craft of composing for independent films, composer usiness
issues, technology, getting work, and a keynote panel including composers Lalo Schifrin ("Mission: Impossible," "Rush Hour," "Dirty Harry"), David Newman ("Ice Age," "Monster-in-Law," "The Cat in the Hat"), John Ottman ("Fantastic Four," "Superman Returns," "X-Men 2"), Bear McCreary ("Battlestar Galactica," "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," "Eureka"), Aaron Zigman ("Bridge to Terabithia," "John Q," "The Notebook") and Hummie Man ("Robin Hood: Men in Tights," "P.T. Barnum," "Wooly Boys").

These national conferences bring together the best and brightest composers and other industry professionals to focus exclusively on the state of the art, craft, technology and business of instrumental music for film, television and video games. To register for "The Composer Expo," visit www.composerexpo.com.

A leading promoter of music for video games since 1999, Music4Games has raised the value of the art form of game music, solidified the artist
recognition factor and artistic merit for video game music composers, and
established the video game soundtrack as a commercial and artistic
commodity. Music4Games is regularly quoted, referenced and utilized as a
resource for business, media articles and market studies on music for
games. Among it's many achievements, Music4Games lobbied for and secured the British Academy Award (BAFTA) for best "Original Music" in a video game. For more information visit http://www.music4games.net.

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