Film Music Reporter

Film composers Craig Wedren and Mark Orton have been announced as performers at the annual Snowball, presented by BMI, on January 22, 2014 at the Sundance House in Park City, Utah. The event will also feature performances by Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall and vocalist and folk songwriter Kris Orlowski. The Snowball will begin at 8 p.m. and is open to Festival Credential holders. Wedren who is best known as the frontman of Shudder to Think has composed the music for numerous films by David Wain, including Role Models, Wanderlust, Wet Hot American Summer and most recently the comedy They Came Together starring Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd, which is premiering at Sundance. His other scoring credits include Richard Linklater’s The School of Rock, HBO’s Hung and Showtimes’s United States of Tara. Orton who is a member of the acoustic chamber music group Tin Hat has recently scored Alexander Payne’s critically acclaimed Nebraska and has previously written the music for Miguel Arteta’s The Good Girl among other projects. His latest film Drunktown’s Finest will premiere at the festival. As previously reported, BMI will also present the director/composer roundtable Music & Film: The Creative Process earlier that day.