{"id":10317,"date":"2021-07-26T13:40:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=10317"},"modified":"2021-07-26T13:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T17:40:36","slug":"etown-music-alumnus-wins-award-for-best-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2021\/07\/26\/etown-music-alumnus-wins-award-for-best-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Etown Music Alumnus Wins Award for Best Score"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College alumnus Kory Hilpmann \u201817 <\/span>won silver in the Best Music\/Film Score category<\/span><\/a> for his animated short film, <\/span>\u201cBeanstalk\u201d<\/span><\/a> at the International New York Film Festival (INYFF) 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hilpmann, who earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in Music<\/a> with a minor in Communications<\/a>, currently works as a film composer in Wernersville, Pa. He collaborated with animator and co-director Tom Cassese to create \u201cBeanstalk\u201d after writing a piece of orchestral music inspired by the classic story of, \u201cJack and the Beanstalk.\u201d Hilpmann also created the sound design and foley for the short film.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m so honored to win my first award for best original score at a film festival,\u201d said Hilpmann. Beanstalk was such a fun and unique project to work on. The music was actually done first before I brought on Tom Cassese to animate the story, which is backward from the typical film-scoring process. This made it a cool learning experience for both of us!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The short film has enjoyed resounding success, having been accepted into seven film festivals and winning four awards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hilpmann credits much of his success to his learning experiences at Etown and is thankful for the guidance of his mentor, Etown Professor of Music Jim Haines \u201881.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy one-on-one composition lessons with Dr. Jim Haines (Profesor of Music) during my time at Etown allowed for a range of creativity and flexibility in what I studied and composed,\u201d said Hilpmann. \u201cThose one-on-one Etown composition sessions really allowed me the freedom to practice composing for the mediums I was passionate about, including film composing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cBeanstalk\u201d is available to view by <\/span>selecting the film poster on Hilpmann\u2019s site<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College alumnus Kory Hilpmann \u201817 won silver in the Best Music\/Film Score category for his animated short film, \u201cBeanstalk\u201d at the International New York Film Festival (INYFF) 2021.\u00a0 Hilpmann, who earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in Music with a minor in Communications, currently works as a film composer in Wernersville, Pa. He collaborated with animator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":10318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1339,774],"tags":[197,1350,1433,1398],"class_list":["post-10317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts-and-culture","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-etown-music","tag-inyff","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10319,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions\/10319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}