Northern Vermont University assistant professor Brian Warwick and two of his students are credited for mixing music in the movie “Summertime,” which premieres today on the opening day of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Warwick, who teaches in the music business and industry (MBI) program at NVU’s Lyndon campus, is credited as score mixer. The MBI students he supervised, Sean Pagal, a senior from Barre, and Lily Robitaille, a junior from Barnstead, New Hampshire, are credited as assistant score mixers. The students are pursuing the audio production concentration in the MBI program.
In an internship, the students spent a week on the project editing, synchronizing audio to video and preparing mixes for “Summertime,” which takes place on a single day in Los Angeles and follows the lives of 25 young people through poetry. Carlos López Estrada directed the film, which is included in Sundance’s Next category of movies that use an innovative storytelling approach and represent a new direction in American cinema.
“Music has always been a passion of mine, and I decided to take that passion further by choosing the MBI major at NVU,” says Robitaille, who also is pursuing a music management concentration in the program. “I truly love the music industry and working behind the scenes to make projects come to fruition, so being able to work on this film was an amazing experience.”
“I considered myself a strictly visual artist, but when I discovered the MBI program at NVU-Lyndon, I knew that was my next move,” says Pagal, who transferred to NVU after earning a communications degree from a community college. “I discovered that I really clicked with audio engineering. I hope to work in the film industry someday though, so I was excited to contribute to this film project.”
Warwick, a Grammy-winning audio engineer, has worked with top music performers. He taught at the Los Angeles Film School before he started at NVU and has engineered music for television shows, including “Walking Dead” and “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Warwick won a Maverick Movie Award for Best Sound Design and Editing in 2009 for his work on the action-spy-thriller spoof “Scream of the Bikini.”
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Northern Vermont University’s Brian Warwick Speaks on Popular Music Feb. 11
Northern Vermont University assistant professor Brian Warwick, a Grammy Award-winning audio engineer, will give a talk on 20th century popular music at 6 p.m. Feb. 11 at NVU’s Lyndon campus.
The talk, free for the public, will be in Room 400 of Samuel Read Hall Library and Academic Center.
In his talk, Warwick, who teaches in the music business and industry program at NVU-Lyndon, will focus on the connections between folk music and current popular music, from Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan to the Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons. The talk is the first in a series of lectures on 20th century popular music that will be presented each semester.
Warwick has done audio engineering for top performers across genres. He was on the engineering team for Canadian singer Michael Bublé’s album “Love,” which was nominated for a 2020 Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. He also engineered on Bublé’s Grammy-nominated albums “Christmas” and “Nobody But Me.”
A longtime recording engineer for “Weird Al” Yankovic, Warwick won a 2015 Grammy for his work on Yankovic’s “Mandatory Fun,” which won for Best Comedy Album. He was nominated for Grammys for his work on Yankovic’s albums “Alpocalypse” and “Internet Leaks.”
Warren Miller Skiing Film Screened Feb. 6 at Northern Vermont University
This event has been canceled. Please contact Erin.Rossetti@NorthernVermont.edu with any questions.
“Timeless,” a film that tracks world-class skiers and snowboarders by Warren Miller Entertainment, will be screened at 7 p.m. Feb. 6 at Northern Vermont University’s Lyndon campus.
The screening, in Room 100 of the Academic and Student Activity Center, is open to the public by donation.
Miller, who lived in Washington state and died in 2018, was a legendary skiing filmmaker whose first skiing film was released in 1950. Longtime Sugarbush Resort ski instructor and chief recreational officer John Egan, a U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame inductee, appeared in more than a dozen of Miller’s films.
For more information, email Katheryn.Ebner@NorthernVermont.edu.
The event is part of Northern Vermont University’s Lecture and Arts Series, made possible in part by the Harriett M. Sherman Lecture Fund, the Lecture and Arts Endowment, Maret ’92 and Tad ’89 Asaro, Bourne’s Energy and Donald P. Blake Jr. Inc.
Clothing Donations Accepted at NVU for Students
Northern Vermont University’s career services office is accepting donations of clothing for professional purposes for the student Career Closet at NVU’s Lyndon campus.
Appropriate items of clean, gently used clothing in modern styles include dress pants and shirts, skirts, suits, shoes, belts and business accessories that students may take for free for jobs, interviews, internships and presentations. The closet also accepts winter coats and jackets for student use.
To make a donation, visit the Career Closet in Room 203 of the Theodore N. Vail Center 2-4 p.m. Mondays or 10 a.m.-noon Tuesdays or Thursdays. Donations are accepted at other times by appointment.
For more information, email Amy.Wright@NorthernVermont.edu.
