PLANTE, Alison

  Alison Plante studied at the University of Chicago and the University of Cambridge, and currently serves as Professor of Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music and Program Director for the M.M. degree in Film Scoring at Berklee Online. She plays keyboard and wind instruments, performed in a Gamelan for three years, and has conducted both orchestra and choir.

Her composition honors include: The Janet Gates Peckham International Award for Excellence in the Arts The Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize for an original literary or musical work Her scoring credits include seven educational television series for the Annenberg Channel; History Channel specials Bible Battles and Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War; documentary features As Prescribed, American Meat, and Farmers For America; national TV spots, trailers, and corporate identity music for Duracell, Kodak, Sodexho, Spalding Sports, W.B. Mason, GMAC, Animal Planet, the National Geographic Channel, and the Pan Mass Challenge, among others. Other credits include many live action and animated shorts, theater (with a specialty in puppetry), and multimedia museum installations for the Smithsonian Institution and the Harvard Museum of Natural History. She is a Professor of Screen Scoring at Berklee College of Music, and Program Director for the Berklee Online Masters of Music in Film Scoring degree program.