ASMAC presents

Dara Taylor

Combining Orchestral sessions with Electronics
Marvel Studios’ Ironheart

with Orchestrator Nick Fevola
Moderated by Glenn Jordan

The characters of Ironheart are multi-faceted, rooted in technology, magic, emotion, grief. The score mirrors these facets combining scrappy percussion, gritty choir, dense electronics and soaring orchestra.

Composer Dara Taylor and orchestrator Nick Fevola dive deep into the process of carving out room for the various elements and letting them each sing either solo or in tandem.

Saturday, 16 May 2026
12pm PDT (UTC-07)
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Bios

Dara Taylor

Dara Taylor is an award-nominated composer and a fresh voice in film and television scoring, known for her emotionally resonant and versatile work. Her credits include Amazon Studios’ The Tender Bar, directed by George Clooney, Universal Pictures’ Strays, starring Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx, and the Netflix/Tyler Perry film Straw, starring Taraji P. Henson. She is also the composer for the Marvel Studios series Ironheart, earning an NAACP Award nomination for Outstanding Original Score for Television/Film.

Her other notable work spans Netflix’s Meet Me Next Christmas (SCL Award-nominated), Black Barbie, and The Noel Diary, directed by Charles Shyer, as well as Sony Pictures’ The Invitation (SCL Award-nominated). Additional credits include Amazon’s The Boys: Diabolical, Warner Bros.’ Scoob! Holiday Haunt, Lionsgate’s Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (co-scored with Christopher Lennertz), the action crime drama Echo Boomers, Netflix’s Bookmarks, Universal/1440’s Curious George: Cape Ahoy, FX’s Pride, and documentaries such as Dawn Porter’s 37 Words and Power of the Dream. Dara is a Governor of the Recording Academy’s Los Angeles Chapter and an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy, the Composers Diversity Collective, the Society of Composers & Lyricists, and the Alliance of Women Film Composers.

Nick Fevola

Nick Fevola is an Orchestrator and Supervising Music Copyist at Juliani Music Preparation. Over the last 20 years, Nick has worked on over 150 motion pictures, television shows, and video games. His career has been driven by a passion for the magic of music in storytelling within these media.

Recent credits include orchestration on Dara Taylor’s scores for Straw (nominated by the SCL for Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film), Marvel’s Ironheart, The Invitation, and Meet Me Next Christmas, as well as Jeff Toyne’s Emmy-winning score for Palm Royale. Nick has also recently served as supervising music copyist on Austin Wintory’s score for Sword of the Sea (nominated by the SCL for Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media), Christopher Lennertz’s Emmy-winning “Let’s Put the Christ Back in Christmas” from The Boys, and Tim Wynn’s acclaimed score for Final Destination: Bloodlines.

Nick began his career in music preparation at Juliani Music shortly after graduating from the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program at the University of Southern California in 2007. Early in his career, he also assisted composers including Christopher Lennertz, Elia Cmiral, and Ron Fish, and provided support to the assistants of John Powell and Christophe Beck. His responsibilities ranged from administrative work to music preparation, score programming, and writing additional music. Over time, his role at Juliani Music has expanded to encompass all aspects of music preparation, from printing and taping to proofreading, copying parts, MIDI & audio transcription, orchestration, and project supervision.

Nick’s work regularly brings him to the scoring stages at Fox Studios in Century City, Sony Pictures in Culver City, and Warner Bros. in Burbank, serving as music librarian alongside some of LA’s top musicians and scoring professionals. He and the Juliani Music team have also worked on theme park and live performance projects for Disney through Christopher Lennertz, including Disneyland’s nighttime spectacular Wondrous Journeys, Rogers: The Musical, and a star-studded concert at the 2024 D23 convention in Anaheim featuring Meghan Trainor, John Stamos, and the Pentatonix.

Nick and his wife Summer are proud parents to their daughter Everly.