Dara Taylor on Orchestral sessions with Electronics

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 has been working professionally as a musician for film, television and video games since graduating from the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television graduate program at the University of Southern California in 2007. He is a supervising music copyist at Juliani Music Preparation, and also regularly works in orchestrating and composing. He's grateful for the many relationships he has built with composers he has had the opportunity to work with, including Christopher Lennertz, Aaron Zigman, Austin Wintory, Philip White and Dara Taylor. Nick is fueled by his passion for storytelling and touching lives through the magic that attracted him to music for film, television and video games at a young age.