G-Star Student Accepted into Prestigious Music Program in New York City

Palm Beach, FL — G-Star School of the Arts Sophomore Tyler Grow was accepted into the NYU ASCAP film scoring workshop by the NYU Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Scoring for Film and Multimedia Program.  This is Tyler’s second year in a row composing and performing in this prestigious music program and is only one of two high school students ever invited to participate.

According to the assistant to the Director and Chair, Ariel Marx at NYU, “There was an especially high volume of applicants this year and Tyler’s work stood out as particularly impressive”.  Over the next several weeks he will have an opportunity to study under accomplished composers and music editors such as Nancy Allen (Music editor for: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring), Michael Levine (Composer for: Cold Case, Close to Home, Star Wars: Detours, and the KIT KAT THEME), Sean Callery (Composer for TV shows: 24, Homeland, Elementary, and Bones). The program will culminate with a final critique session and screening of the HYBRID Recording Cues composed by Tyler Grow and other participants at the NYU Fredrick Lowe Theatre at 35th West 4th Street in New York City and include a full day of recording sessions at NYU’s state of the art facilities, featuring New York City’s top-tier studio musicians. 

Tyler’s dream is to return to Romania one day and speak to the children of the orphanage to let them know that just because they are orphans it doesn’t mean they are less than others.  He wants to change the way people across the world view orphaned and abandoned children and also bring an understanding of children with disabilities.  That even though he struggles to understand what people say, has hearing loss, now also right side vision impairments, and has short term memory issues due to injuries from the orphanage the other side of the brain compensates and he is brilliant musically and creatively.

PICTURED:  Tyler Grow with Ira Newborn, composer that scored music for many film including Blues Brothers, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, etc.

About: G-Star School of the Arts for Film, Animation and Performing Arts (www.GStarSchool.org) is a public high school located in Palm Springs, Florida, founded in 2003 by the school’s CEO Greg Hauptner.  G-Star students come from across Palm Beach County as well as from all over the world to attend this school. Students study in the fields of film production, 3-D animation, and acting. Students that attend must take art classes as well as their normal academic classes. G-Star offers a complete college preparatory education with honors classes, Advanced Placement classes, and the International Baccalaureate World School Programme. The school also trains students in Writing, Directing, Producing, Acting and all aspects of film and TV production in front of the camera and behind the camera. G-Star is an “A” rated school 6 years in a row. It is academically in the top 1.2% of all high schools in the nation according to the Washington Post. The U.S. News & World Report named G-Star one of “The Best High Schools in America”. G-Star awarded “The Number One High School for Film in the World” in London by the Raindance Film Festival, Europe’s largest independent film festival. G-Star graduates 99% of its students with 97% going on to college. G-Star students have been accepted into Juilliard, Oxford University (England), West Point, Naval Academy at Annapolis, NYU, USC, UF, FSU, UM and many more. Where are our graduates today? Here’s a brief list: Sound Engineer for the Jimmy Fallon Show, Universal Studios, Warner Bros. Studios, Disney, reality star of Syfy Channel’s FACE OFF, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop (Muppets), Hulu, several own their own production companies, traveling the world doing documentaries, and much more. G-Star has partnered with the Palm Beach International Film Festival as their mission aligns with dedication to making a difference in the lives of future filmmakers.