“Próximamente le ofreceremos su biografía oficial traducida al castellano.” Nancy Knutsen serves as ASCAP’s Senior Vice President of Film and Television Repertory, having joined the Society’s Los Angeles office in 1988.

In her position, Nancy oversees all of ASCAP’s activities in film and television music both in the United States and internationally. She was instrumental in the creation of ASCAP’s Film and Television Music Department, and oversees a staff in Los Angeles and New York whose specific responsibilities include signing new composers and songwriters to ASCAP, career-building opportunities for ASCAP composers, as well as the production of ASCAP’s annual Film and Television Music Awards, film scoring workshops, and many other tributes and events.

Nancy has represented ASCAP at film and music conferences throughout the world, including the Sundance, Seattle, Vancouver and Toronto Film Festivals, the Flanders International Film Festival, as well as the Santa Barbara, Palm Springs and many other California-based festivals. She is also a regular attendee and speaker at such prestigious music festivals and conferences as the Tanglewood Music Festival and Music Center, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and many others. She has produced several film music concerts with major American orchestras, as well as participating in film music panels in Canada, England, France, Belgium, Spain, Australia and New Zealand. She also speaks regularly at colleges and universities about the creative and business aspects of composing for film and television. Nancy is an advisory board member of the Young Musicians Foundation and a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Women In Film, and NARAS. She is a founding member of the Advisory Committee of the World Soundtrack Academy, headquartered in Belgium.

Prior to joining ASCAP, Nancy was Assistant to composer/conductor John Williams, while also working as a manager of the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony Orchestras. She traveled extensively throughout the world as the tour manager of both orchestras. She worked as an agent for Columbia Artists Management upon first moving to Los Angeles in 1987, and as production administrator for an animation studio in London, England while living there in the late 1970’s, when she also accompanied the London Sympony on several tours.

Throughout her career, Nancy has worked with some of the most prestigious composers and conductors of our time, including Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, John Williams, Henry Mancini, and many of today’s most sought-after film composers.