Liz Myers - UCLA Extension 2026 - Classes underway!

For the past 18 years, Myers has been teaching at UCLA Extension a course entitled “Put Your Music to Work: Composition for Commercials.” In this popular course, Myers give students real work samples of commercials to re-score and then their work is evaluated. In addition she provides numerous topics of compositional skills and the study of other composers’ works and process: e.g. Hans Zimmer, Alexandre Desplat, Thomas Newman along with classical stalwarts such as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Elgar and Stravinsky. Music business revenue for music composers is also discussed with advice and information given on Musicians Federation of Musicians, music licensing, performing royalty organizations, music publishing as well as numerous music engineering tips. In all, this course is considered a great tune up for working composers as well as an expansive introuduction to the rigors and requirements of music used for advertising campaigns and branded entertainment.
Guest speakers enhance the value of the course for the students, and Myers is extremely grateful for their contributions. “There is probably no other educational resource for commercial music in the US that has such a wide range of information and challenging assignments for those music students who are curious about how music can work in conjunction with a powerful visual and a compelling story to inspire consumers to use a product that will hopefully improve their lives,” says Myers. “We score the Big Beats of someone’s life, as it is the human emotion of the very short film that we romance with the successful underscore.”

CBS Evening News - 2025

Nationwide - Anglia

Polaroid - DogCat

United Airlines - Sea Orchestra

United Airlines - A Life

Kinko's - Physiology

CBS Evening News - 2025On January 27th, 2025 Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson to over the lead anchorship of the CBS Evening News. The original music written Trivers Myers and Pasqua returned with the original recording sessions created in Los Angeles in 1987. The 80 piece orchestra by Allen Sides at Ocean Way Studios.

Nationwide - AngliaBrilliant B&W work by director Carlton Chase showing the power of freedom that financial security can provide. Recorded at Air Edel Studios in London, Carlton Chase wanted to underscore the intimacy of the final scene (“Dreams I Dream at night during the day”). Liz Myers lent her solo voice to the score, weaving poignancy into the emotion of the visuals.

Polaroid - DogCatThis is commercial is a horror from the pov of the dog. Unfairly accused our k-9 hero decides to figure out a way to teach the cat a lesson. First considereing a knife secondly a rolling pin and finally snaps a Polaroid of the perpetrator of messiness. Trivers and Myers recorded this brass ensemble and Conway Studios with Rob Hart, engineer.

United Airlines - Sea OrchestraOne of the most unusual scores we have ever created for United Airlines, this arrangement of Rhapsody In Blue was performed by the LA Philharmonic at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. Each underwater creature, from the organ playing octopus to the bass drum-bellied whale has their own standout moment.

United Airlines - A LifeHow would you tell a story of a persons life in 60 seconds? This solo piano track does just that, showing a little boy who loves the freedom of his bicycle and grows up to find the time to go around the world by airplane.

Kinko's - PhysiologyA Super Bowl commercial of outrageous visual design, this Kinko’s presentation shows a surrealistic world of progress. The score created by Trivers Myers Music was recorded at Conway Studio’s in Hollywood.

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Focused Music Workshop 2 - Day 1 in Portland, Oregon. Myers speaks to composers and gives presentation on writing for the Piano Trio (piano, violin & cello) with Chaplin & Trivers.

Liz Myers - UCLA Extension 2026 - Classes underway!

Did you know that 51% of all news anchors are women? Bravo to CBS for putting a woman at the helm of their evening news program. Since Connie Chung (an extraordinary journalist) and Katie Couric (a gifted and savvy interviewer), who paved the way, it’s been long overdue. Women tell it like it is.

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