Dan Carlin

Film music editor and director Daniel “Dan” Carlin received a doctorate degree in anthropology and served as an intelligence analyst in the United States Air Force before entering the music industry. Carlin co-founded and for twenty-five years was CEO for Segue Music, which created and co-sponsored Berklee's first internship program for film scoring students. He was also director of the Henry Mancini Institute from 2004 to 2007. Carlin chaired the Berklee College of Music Film Scoring department from 2007 to 2012, during which time he hired the department’s first female assistant chair, helped form the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra, established an entrepreneurial seminar and a video game minor, and designed the Scoring Silent Films project as well as an annual concert series of film and video game music performed at Symphony Hall. Carlin went on to chair the Screen Scoring program at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. Carlin is a charter member of the University of California Los Angeles’ Film Scoring Advisory Board, Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), and former member of the Motion Picture Academy’s Music-Branch Executive Committee, and served multiple terms as the chair of The Recording Academy. 

Alison Plante

Film composer and educator Alison Plante received her bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Chicago. Prior to her teaching career, she worked as a senior web developer for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Plante joined the Film Scoring faculty in 2008, where she served as assistant chair through 2015 and taught courses in composition and production. As department chair from 2016 through 2019, Plante was the first female chair of a collegiate film scoring department in the United States. In her administrative roles, Plante helped form the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra, establish an entrepreneurial seminar and a video game minor, design the Scoring Silent Films project, and launch an annual concert series of film and video game music performed at Symphony Hall. She also led the creation of Berklee Online’s master’s degree program for film scoring, which she has directed since 2019. Plante has scored for documentaries, national television, film, theater, and multimedia museum installations and is the founder of Treble Cove Music.