About Us

Jordan Passman
CEO & Founder of scoreAscore.com

Jordan Passman, one of Bloomberg Businessweek's 2011 Finalists: America's Best Young Entrepreneurs, launched scoreAscore.com in May 2010. scoreAscore won Businessweek's readers' vote for 'Most Promising Business', and was also featured in The Los Angeles Times', prestigious Calendar section.

Born and raised in LA, music has always been a huge part of Jordan' s life. In his early career, he worked in the entertainment industry throughout college (Creative Artists Agency, Warner Bros. Studios & Warner Bros. Records). After graduating from Pitzer College, Jordan joined the Film/TV Membership Department of ASCAP (American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers) in New York. Today, Jordan speaks on industry expert panels, including the California Copyright Conference.

Jordan recognized a void in the industry for a platform connecting professional composers and quality media producers. He began developing the business model for scoreAscore.com in October of 2008.

Why scoreAscore? There are project owners who can pick up the phone and call one of the top film composer agencies to find what they need. On the opposite side of the spectrum, there are film producers scrounging through overwhelming royalty-free music libraries and the Internet to find great music. scoreAscore.com serves anybody in need of original music with an easy-to-use, safe and efficient music resource. scoreAscore allows the music to speak for itself. Each composer has been audited and approved by Jordan, in order to ensure the top quality professionalism that all great projects deserve.

Please feel free to send Jordan suggestions on how to better serve you, or even just to say hello! Thank you so much for visiting scoreAscore.com.
jordan@scoreAscore.com

The scoreAscore.com Advisory Board:

Steve Schnur

As Worldwide Executive of Music and President of EA Music Group for Electronic Arts, Steve Schnur is responsible for the pursuit, creation and continuous development of the global vision for music in EA games. He has brought established stars, breakthrough new artists and award-winning composers to top-selling EA franchises, changing the industry's perception of video games from simple licensing opportunities to a series of groundbreaking and award winning scores and soundtracks. His hands-on approach with composer selection and score production has earned EA over 50 soundtrack nominations over the last 9 years. His extensive relationships with major recording artists and music managers have helped to create a series of original compositions which now fill the EA music library with valuable copyrights. Steve brought this vision into the multi-billion dollar game space from his experience in both the film and recording industries as a successful music supervisor and music producer.

In 2005, he created EA Recordings, a digital record label focused on the distribution of EA's enormous collection of scores and songs. In 2008, he formed Artwerk Music Group, through which EA now directly signs, develops and launches artists for publishing, master recordings, sync deals and distribution. Due to Steve's signings, Artwerk now boasts a cutting edge roster including artists such as Matt and Kim, Ladytron, Junkie XL, Chromeo, Airbourne and Hadouken. Prior to joining EA in 2001, he held various executive positions with the Warner Music Group, MTV, EMI and BMG, and has supervised and produced music for films including CRUEL INTENTIONS and MISS CONGENIALITY (which garnered a Golden Globe nomination for best original song).

Steve has been profiled by the New York Times, London Financial Times and CNN. Additionally, he was selected as "One Of The Most Creative People In Entertainment" by Entertainment Weekly, both "One of the Most Powerful People in the Music Business" and "One of the Top 20 Power Players in Digital Entertainment" by Billboard Magazine, "One of The Top 25 Power Players in the new Hollywood" by The Wall Street Journal and in 2009 was awarded "International Music Person of the Year" by MusExpo.

Steve Schnur is also a board member of City Of Hope, a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), a board member of the Country Music Association and currently serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Grammy Foundation. In December of 2009, Schnur received the ACLU "Bill of Rights" Award alongside Robert Redford, Michelle Satter and Cara Mertes of the Sundance Institute and Film Festival.

Joel Sill

Joel Sill began his music career as a music publisher and record producer. He became involved with film as the soundtrack producer for "Easy Rider". He later became Vice President and head of music for Paramount Pictures and Television where he designed music for such films as "Reds", "48 Hours", "Terms of Endearment", "An Officer and A Gentleman" featuring "Up Where We Belong", and "Flashdance" featuring "Flashdance, What a Feeling", both Academy awarding winning songs. He then moved to Warner Bros. where he was in charge of music for all filmed entertainment. At Warner's he worked on such films as "Blade Runner", "Purple Rain", "The Color Purple", "The Killing Fields" and introduced Madonna to the public eye with her performance of the #1 recording "Crazy for You" in the film "Vision Quest". Sill then formed New Visions Music Group with director Taylor Hackford where he supervised music for "Mannequin" which included the #1 hit "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now". Their next film was "La Bamba" which spawned the #1 single "La Bamba" by Los Lobos and a #1 multi-platinum soundtrack. Sill then partnered with his brother Chuck Kaye who had been Chairman of Warner Chappell. Together they formed Windswept Pacific and acquired the catalogues of Tommy James and The Shondells, Ritchie Valens, Jimmy Rodgers, Count Basie, Edgar Winter, The Isley Bros., Lynyrd Skynyrd, Little Anthony and The Imperials, The Shirelles, K.C. and The Sunshine Band, Rod Stewart, Tito Puente, John Mellencamp, The Four Seasons, Willie Nelson among others. Windswept grew to be one of the 4 largest indie publishers. Sill continued his film work with such projects as "The Fabulous Baker Boys", "My Cousin Vinny", "The Firm", "Twister", "Wag The Dog", "Forrest Gump", "Terminator 3", "Contact", ""Cast Away", "Bobby", and "Munich". Sill's recent publishing joint venture with Cherry Lane includes clients Quincy Jones, Summit Entertainment ("The Twilight Series", "Knowing" and "Red") and composer Hans Zimmer. He continues to supervise music for selected films. Sill is partnered with Marty Simon in the royalty assurance and management company Music Revenue Data a venture with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Don Passman

Donald S. Passman is the author of "All You Need To Know About The Music Business", and a graduate of the University of Texas and Harvard Law School. He practices law with the Los Angeles firm of Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, and has specialized in the music business for over thirty years.

He has lectured extensively on the music industry, including Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, USC Law School, UCLA Law School, the Los Angeles Copyright Society, and the Beverly Hills Bar Association. Don is also the author of two novels, "The Visionary" and "Mirage", published by Warner Books.

Don has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America for over twenty years, as well as the Top 100 Lawyers in California, the Top 500 Attorneys in America, Hollywood Reporter's Top 100 Entertainment Attorneys, and Southern California's Super Lawyers.

Bob Israel

Bob Israel is a Managing Member of AngelVision Investors, a group that invests in entertainment, marketing and new media entities. He is also the Co-Founder and former Co-CEO of Aspect Ratio. When the agency was sold in 1999, it had grown into the largest movie marketing agency in Entertainment. Since then, he has continued to invest in and advise other successful marketing companies. Bob also has been involved as a producer of several feature films. Among them are the box office smash Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, which helped launch Jim Carrey' s film career, and the cult classic, Bachelor Party, which helped audiences discover Tom Hanks.

From 2000-2008 Bob was the Executive Producer of The Hollywood Reporter' s Movie Marketing Awards, the Key Arts. He is currently a member of the Motion Picture Academy and a member of the Executive Committee of the Academy' s PR branch.

Bob is also a former Chairman of the Board (and current Vice Chair) for A Place Called Home, a safe haven for underserved youth, and the former Vice Chairman of the Westland School in Los Angeles.

Kathy Nelson

One of the most influential figures in film music, Kathy Nelson has not only pioneered and defined the movie and television soundtrack business, but has paved the way for other women to follow her into the highest ranks of the entertainment industry. In 2001, she was named President of Film Music for Universal Pictures and Universal Music Group, becoming the first executive to oversee music in both areas at major entertainment companies. From 2004-2009, she continued in her role as President of Film Music, Universal Pictures, overseeing music for all Universal films, including Working Title and Focus Features projects. Recently ranked #12 on Billboard' s " Women In Music Power Players" list, and #46 on the Hollywood Reporter' s " Power 100: Women In Entertainment" list, Nelson continues to set the creative and business standards of the film music industry.

Throughout her career, Nelson has supervised music for the most influential filmmakers in Hollywood including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Alan Parker, Jonathan Demme, Robert Redford, Adrian Lyne, Spike Lee, Ang Lee, John Waters, Quentin Tarantino, Robert DeNiro, Sam Mendes, Wes Anderson, Guillermo del Toro, Garry Marshall, Judd Apatow and Michael Mann. She has also notably had a long-standing creative partnership with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, dating back to projects with his late partner Don Simpson. She has worked with the top artists, writers and producers in the music industry including Jack Johnson, Eric Clapton, Beck, Nigel Godrich, Sheryl Crow, Joe Strummer, Bernie Taupin, Aerosmith, Pharrell Williams, Public Enemy, Dave Stewart, Eminem, Diane Warren and the premier film composers of our time including Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, Randy Newman, James Newton Howard and Gustavo Santaolalla.

John Schulman

John Schulman is a partner at the firm Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, and chair of the firm's interdisciplinary entertainment department. Prior to joining MS&K in January 2010, John was the Executive Vice President & General Counsel of Warner Bros. Entertainment. He served the studio as General Counsel for 25 years.

Prior to joining Warner Bros., Schulman practiced law, first at Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz and Selvin, where one of his early assignments was handling the litigation and negotiations regarding Warner Bros.' Superman feature films. He spent nine years at Kaplan. Thereafter, in 1981, he was one of the founding partners of the law firm then known as Weissman, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman & Schulman, where he remained for three years.

He currently serves on the board of directors of Bet Tzedek Legal Services and is a trustee of the Southwestern School of Law. In 2009, John joined USC Law as the director of the Entertainment Law Program. He's a former member of the board of directors of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, California Legal Corps, the Constitutional Rights Foundation and the Youth Law Center; he is also a former member of the board of trustees of the Center for Early Education. He has served as a lecturer at UCLA School of Law, USC School of Law and at his alma mater, the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law.

Clyde Liberman

Clyde Lieberman is the Executive in Charge of Music for Mark Burnett Productions. In this capacity, he is responsible for all music creative including production of music segments, development of main titles, music supervision and clearance and licensing. He was senior music producer for the beloved "Rock Star:INXS" and "Supernova" series as well as a co-creator and producer of the "Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp" due this October on Vh1 Classic. He also is the music consultant for The Apprentice and has brought artists as diverse as Liza Minnelli and Def Leppard to appear on the show.

Through his work as a music consultant, Lieberman also has contributed to shows on NBC, ABC, MTV, TV Land just to name a few. He also reps famed hit songwriter, Robbie Nevil.

Prior to his work in TV music, he was head of the creative office for BMG Music Publishing for nine years. He began his career as a pop songwriter with Arista Music Publishing.

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