About this session
Moderated by Pete Saville, this panel brings together voices from across licensing, rights and representation to break down where composer income actually comes from — and what to have in place before the money starts moving.
Moderator
Peter Saville’s music career began in 2004 with the founding of Carbon Logic — a recording studio focused on artist development, providing affordable songwriting sessions for UK artists and indie labels.
In 2010 he took on his first TV music supervision project “Excluded”, and has worked in TV & Film music supervision ever since.
In 2024 he was nominated for Best TV Music Supervisor at Los Angeles’ 14th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for Billie Piper & Lucy Prebble’s “I Hate Suzie Too”.
Saville’s success lies in combining three things; his love of discovering new music, a passion for its application to films & the stories they tell, a deep ongoing knowledge of & fascination with music copyright law & licensing.
Some of his supervision highlights include brokering then-unknown Alt J to score feature “Leave To Remain”, bringing Moses Sumney and Gabriels to “Save Me” & “Save Me Too”, clearing all of Mark Ronson’s hits for feature documentary “From The Heart”, securing Bruce Springsteen’s repertoire for 2019 feature “Blinded By The Light”, negotiating The Rolling Stones “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” for the ending of Paramount’s eight part series Sexy Beast and Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” for the titles and official trailer for Amazon Prime’s “Wilderness”.
Panellists
David Stoner is Licensing Director at Silva Screen Records, one of the world’s leading independent film and television soundtrack labels, where he has worked for over 35 years.
A licensing expert with one of the deepest catalogues in the industry, spanning decades of iconic film and television scores, in addition to the commercial exploitation of new and archival soundtrack albums, David brings rare institutional knowledge of how music from screen projects is monetised, licensed and commercially exploited across sync, broadcast and physical formats.
With over 30 years Music Supervision experience Debbie Rogerson project manages the commissioning of original compositions and licensing of existing music for use across the BBC’s diverse portfolio of content. From shaping the perfect musical identity to securing the right tracks for use both on and beyond BBC’s own platforms and services.
Ollie Fitzgerald is a London-based Film and TV Composer Agent. Over the course of his career he has represented some of the UK’s most prominent Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy award winning composers and artists. After studying music at Brunel University, specialising in composition and performance, he found his way into the niche world of composer representation, initially representing classical composers at Oxford University Press, before moving into film, TV and games as an Agent at COOL Music Agency, where he eventually went on to lead the UK team. Ollie joined WME in 2026.
Si Begg has composed for multiple film and TV projects, notable works include 3 seasons of UK’s cult Netflix rom-com series Lovesick, multi award winning Japanese arthouse thriller Darkness Of Otherwhere and the first 2 seasons of Box To Box’s current hit Netflix show Tour De France: Unchained. He has also co-written scores for Jamie Child’s debut feature Jackdaw (limited cinemas / Netflix) and forthcoming US festival hit Tim Travers and the Time Travellers Paradox with frequent collaborator Deadly Avenger.
As a producer, arranger and sound designer he often works with composer Carly Paradis on shows such as Sky Original The Rising and forthcoming HBO series Get Millie Black, and is also right hand man to French electronic uber-composer Rone, assisting on Jacques Audiard’s Cannes hit Les Olympiades (Paris 13th District in the UK) and Canal Plus limited series Of Money and Blood amongst others.
Si Begg has also composed for multiple high profile trailer campaigns over the years, most recently for A24’s huge Maxxxine campaign, Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut Blink Twice and David Fincher’s latest feature, The Killer.