Warren M. Sherk

Warren M. Sherk compiled and edited the definitive reference work, "Film and Television Music: A Guide to Books, Articles, and Composer Interviews. His writings on film music have appeared in the second edition of the "Grove Dictionary of American Music" (Oxford Univ. Press), "Wagner & Cinema" (Indiana Univ. Press), "Film Music 2: History, Theory, Practice," and on www.dimitritiomkin.com. He contributed to the Film Music Society journals "The Cue Sheet" and "Music and the Moving Image" and coordinated the publication of the Society's "Film Music 2" and "Elmer Bernstein's Film Music Notebook." In addition, he coedited the "Dimitri Tiomkin Anthology," the largest collection of the composer's film songs ever assembled (Hal Leonard), and was an assistant editor for the "Elmer Bernstein Collection" songbook (Hal Leonard).

He provided the Preface for the electronic editions or "Agnes Moorehead: A Very Private Person" and "Dimitri Tiomkin: A Portrait." He previously compiled and edited "The Films of Mack Sennett" (Scarecrow Press).

Sherk holds a bachelor's degree in music composition from the University of Arizona, where he studied with Robert Muczynski, and a master's from UCLA, where he studied with Roger Bourland and Paul Reale. He worked extensively in music preparation for motion pictures, providing orchestrations for such films as "Dragonheart: A New Beginning," "101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure," and "Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer." His orchestral reconstructions of classic film music can be heard on recordings issued by Koch, Naxos, Silva Screen, Tadlow Music, and Varese Sarabande.

He serves on the board of the Film Music Foundation.