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David Schulhof (b. January 29, 1979 in New York, NY) is an accomplished music and entertainment executive. For over 20 years, Schulhof has held numerous job functions in the entertainment industry, including music executive, music publisher, music producer, music supervisor, soundtrack producer, film music executive, and television producer. Currently, Schulhof is the Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Evergreen Copyrights, a leading global music publishing company. Schulhof received his J.D. degree from the NYU School of Law and holds a B.A from Georgetown University. He is a member of the New York State Bar, and is fluent in three foreign languages.

Career

Evergreen Copyrights

Evergreen Copyrights (a/k/a Evergreen Copyright Acquisitions, LLC) is a full-service global independent music publishing company founded in January 2006 by David Schulhof, Richard Perna, and Joel Katz [1] with financial backing from Trilantic Capital Partners (formerly Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking Group). Evergreen Copyrights controls over 65,000 titles including the works of Roy Orbison, Michael Jackson the Ramones, Warren Zevon, Grand Funk Railroad, Nick Drake, MC Hammer, Teddy Riley, Third Eye Blind, Todd Rundgren, Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Two Live Crew, Bill Monroe, J.J. Cale, and many others. The company provides its clients with a variety of services including Creative Marketing/ A&R, Songwriter Development, Copyright Administration, and Licensing. Evergreen has offices in New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, and London. Evergreen is one of the largest independent music publishing companies in the world. [2]

Miramax Films

Prior to founding Evergreen Copyrights, Schulhof held the position of Vice President of Motion Picture Music for Miramax Films and Dimension Films, overseeing motion picture music, soundtracks and music publishing for the Studio. At Miramax, Schulhof participated as an executive producer, A&R producer, music supervisor and score supervisor on over 100 soundtracks distributed by such labels as Columbia Records, Sony Classical Records, EMI, Virgin Records, Jive Records, RCA, Arista Records, Roc-a-fella, Island Def Jam Music Group, Koch Records, Hollywood, Milan, Universal Records, Verve Records, Interscope, Wind-up Records, TVT Records and Tommy Boy Entertainment. His score supervised soundtracks for Life Is Beautiful and Shakespeare in Love won Oscar awards. He put together the music from such hit films as Scary Movie, Scream 2, Scream 3, Calle 54, She's All That, Bridget Jones' Diary, Serendipity, In Too Deep, Chocolat, The Cider House Rules, Dracula 2000, Gangs of New York, Little Voice, Music of The Heart, On the Line, O, Iris, Yards, Amélie, Kate & Leopold, Shipping News, Halloween 7, Spy Kids, and The Talented Mr. Ripley.

In addition to soundtracks, Schulhof provided film music supervision for Miramax's Frida (Oscar-winner for music, Bounce, Get Over It and Undisputed, as well as Dimension Films' Imposter, Paid in Full, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Highlander:Endgame. As film music supervisor, Schulhof worked closely with such directors as Julie Taymore (Frida), Charles Stone (Paid in Full), Walter Hill (Undisputed), and Kevin Smith (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back). During his tenure at Miramax Films, Mr. Schulhof helped the company achieve nine Oscar nominations for film music and soundtracks and thirteen Grammy nominations for soundtracks. He built a valuable music-publishing library of award-winning and award-nominated scores and songs that generated millions of dollars in profits for Miramax Films. He oversaw Miramax's administration and joint venture agreement with Sony Music Publishing, Miramax's exclusive music publishing administrator, and was responsible for Miramax Special Products, a profitable division he created to promote and license the company music catalogue to third-party licensees.

Television Production

Schulhof has credits as an independent reality television producer. He developed several programs for Warner Bros., NBC and Fox Television. His television production company, Schulhof-Zuriff Productions, produced and sold to NBC an untitled Jason Davis project centering on Jason Davis, billionaire grandson of oil tycoon Marvin Davis, while he chased his entrepreneurial dream of opening hotels in Las Vegas [3]. Schulhof's television production company was represented by the William Morris Agency during this time.

Press

David Schulhof is frequently quoted and featured in numerous trade and news publications as an authority and purveyor of music and entertainment. On August 30, 2010, the NY Post profiled Schulhof in their Dream Job section. The article specifically focuses on Mr. Schulhof's innovative approach to licensing and marketing music [4]Billboard, in its article "Reshaping the Biz Model: EverGreen Begins with Pub Assets, then Diversifies", examines how Schulhof and Evergreen Copyrights go about growing the revenues of music publishing portfolios.[5]

Other articles that Schulhof are quoted in include:

"Death Row Back To Life With Publishing Deal, New Releases" (Billboard) [6]

"Vedder, Grohl Set For Nick Drake Tribute Album" (Billboard) [7]

"EverGreen grows global" (Variety) [8]

"PUBLISHING AND MUSIC BANKING: A New Model" (American Songwriter) [9]

Recent Activities

Schulhof has spoken on numerous panels at entertainment conferences, such as Midem and MidemNet.[10]

Philanthropy

Schulhof is actively involved in various Philanthropic, Humanitarian & Arts organizations including Henry Street Settlement, New Yorker’s For Children, Operation Smile, Robin Hood Foundation, MusiCares, the Andy Golkin Scholarship Foundation at SEO, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York, Whitney Museum of New York, and Park Avenue Synagogue.

References

  1. ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117936598.html?categoryid=16&cs=1&query=david+schulhof#ixzz0zQfCnE00
  2. ^ http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004109144
  3. ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117900462.html?categoryid=1071&cs=1&query=david+schulhof#ixzz0zQeoYpEb
  4. ^ http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/jobs/dream_job_david_schulhof_yd8Bszv5fRURStQRtVsEJJ
  5. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=rw4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=reshaping+the+biz+model+billboard.biz&source=bl&ots=ofEN5ANc6n&sig=JjPzdotf1nOT-meZVzjlijUnGWo&hl=en&ei=w5GOTJywJsWblgfU_ajOAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=reshaping%20the%20biz%20model%20billboard.biz&f=false
  6. ^ http://www.billboard.com/news/death-row-back-to-life-with-publishing-deal-1003985962.story#/news/death-row-back-to-life-with-publishing-deal-1003985962.story
  7. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/vedder-grohl-set-for-nick-drake-tribute-1003931824.story#/bbcom/news/vedder-grohl-set-for-nick-drake-tribute-1003931824.story
  8. ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117936598.html?categoryid=16&cs=1&query=david+schulhof#ixzz0zQfCnE00
  9. ^ http://www.americansongwriter.com/2007/09/publishing-and-music-banking-a-new-model/
  10. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxNZz3wugg

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