Daniel Carlin
Dan Carlin is the Chair Emeritus of The Recording Academy (GRAMMY® Awards).  He is also an Emmy®-nominated music director (for the NBC Miniseries biopic, The Temptations) and an Emmy®-winning music editor. He also has worked as a conductor, music supervisor soundtrack producer, and music consultant on many industry-honored projects, including Days of Heaven, The Black Stallion, Officer and a Gentleman, Sister Act, The Bodyguard, Last of the Mohicans, What’s Love Got to Do With It, The Preacher’s Wife, A Civil Action, and Bruce Almighty.
Dan is the co-founder of Segue Music, the largest and most successful music post-production business in Hollywood history. From 1976 through 2003, he and his 25-member staff worked on literally hundreds of the industry’s most successful feature films, television projects, and soundtracks. Individually, Dan has collaborated with a number of highly regarded filmmakers, actors, composers and recording artists, including Francis Coppola, Herbert Ross, Michael Mann, Ron Shelton, Harold Ramis, Taylor Hackford, Penny Marshall, Tom Shadyac, Georges Delerue, Elmer Bernstein, Lalo Schifrin, Marc Shaiman, Alf Clauson, Charles Fox, Danny Elfman, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, Smokey Robinson, Laurence Fishburne, Usher, David Foster, Whoopi Goldberg, Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, Phil Ramone, Britney Spears, Nile Rodgers, Queen Latifah, Angela Bassett, Julie Andrews, and Tony Bennett. By a wonderful and fortuitous coincidence, Dan’s first major collaboration began in 1977 on the award-winning television series, Lou Grant, with the HMI’s current Artistic Director, Patrick Williams, who served as an important and gracious mentor.
Dan has demonstrated a passionate commitment to industry-related service: In addition to being Chair Emeritus of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, where he has overseen the effort to restructure the GRAMMY® organization and push forward its corporate-governance, advocacy and education agendas, Dan has served over 20 years on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Music Executive Committee. He also led the successful effort at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in bringing Emmy® recognition to music editors. He helped design, fund, and develop the composer program at the Sundance Institute; created and co-sponsored the first internship program at The Berklee College of Music (where he also serves on the Board of Visitors); led the successful fight to reverse discriminatory tax assessments on California post-production businesses; helped design and create the UCLA Film-Scoring Program; and consults for the ASCAP Composer’s Workshop. In his spare time, he lectures and contributes to seminars at a number of universities and institutes.