Email: gregory.safko@gmail.com -or- contact@gregorysafko.com
Current Projects
Previous Projects
Mainstage Center for the Arts Summer Film Program, 2010
About seven short student films were scored in a two-week period.
Bluegrass Chase For a short film about a filmaking student who is late for everything
Baltimore 48 Hour Film Project, 2009: Ka-Boom Sha-Boom. Genre: Cops/Detective
This film was an animated film where Tim Flagler, an unemployed-musician-turned-bombing-terrorist is brought in from his prison cell to help diffuse a bomb.
Audio Clips:
Baltimore 48 Hour Film Project, 2008: Respect The Tools and Follow The Rules. Genre: Horror
This film was a hybrid of a 1950's school instructional video outlining shop class and home economics safety procedures, with more of a slant towards what can and does go horribly wrong. The film's music was also a hybrid, using the trite music of a school instructional video interlaced with horror/suspense musical styles reminiscent of a Bernard Herrmann film score.
Baltimore 48 Hour Film Project, 2007: The Painter's Touch. Genre: Superhero.
The genre mixed Film De Femme (films with women heros) and a band of misfit out-of-work superheros with below-par unmarketable superpowers. The film required music to accompany the reminiscing of a luster now tarnished, and a re-vitalized heroic theme when a caper arises that only their unique superpowers can accomplish..
Baltimore 48 Hour Film Project, 2006: Go, Lawrence, Go. Genre: Silent Movie
As a take-off of a Buster Keaton "Boy-meets-girl-loses-girl-reclaims-girl" silent movie, this film required a honky-tonk piano score with musical motifs accompanying the hero, the girl, and the villain.
Sample Audio Clips
(Sample genre compositions with simple MIDI sounds - contact me if you want the full composition with higher-quality sampled sounds)
Incidental Music used for a theatrical production of Charles Dicken's "Great Expectations" |
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| Sample 1 | Used when Pip is stealing food from the pantry |
| Used on Pip's arrival in London and the start of his journey as a gentlemen | |
| Waltz | Incidental dance music. Also used for the schemeing of Miss Havisham |
| Sample 2 | Magwich is on his deathbed, and Pip informs him that he has a daughter |
Cultural/Ethnic Music |
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| Celtic 1 | Celtic/Irish: Solo Violin |
| Celtic 2 | Celtic/Irish: A strong, pushing Solo Celtic Violin |
| Chinese Cultural 1 | Chinese Cultural: Features traditional instruments. Used in incidental background music. |
| Chinese Cultural 2 | Chinese Cultural: Features traditional instruments. Used for incidental background music |
Orchestral Selections |
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| Cello - Solo | Cello Solo (Melancholy Mood) |
| Western | From a project requiring a Western-style theme |
| Themes for an upcoming project | |
| Contemporary (20th Century) | From a request to write a contemporary style similar to Philip Glass |
Concert Performances
2005 (June): Rhapsody in Blue, Tri-County Symphonic Band
2002 (April): Rhapsody in Blue, Garden State Pops Orchestra
1998 (April): Warsaw Concerto, Garden State Pops Orchestra
1998 (November): Gershwin: An Evening of Piano Music, Rowan University. Included the performance of Concerto in F, Rhapsody in Blue, and Variations on themes from "Porgy and Bess"
Awards
2006 (August): Winner, Best Musical Score for Go, Lawrence, Go, Baltimore 48 Hour Film Project
1994 (May): Winner, Soloist Competition, Rowan University Symphony Orchestra, in a performance of Schumann's Introduction and Allegro Appassionato, Op. 92,