Series

Jon Vickers Scoring Award

Each year, IU Cinema runs a juried competition that awards one student from the composition department in the Jacobs School of Music is  a commission to write an original score for a silent film. The score is performed live at IU Cinema by an ensemble of student musicians to a screening of the film, managed in part by student projectionists and sound engineers. The John Vickers Scoring award (JVSA) is named after IU Cinema’s founding director Jon Vickers; it is an IU Cinema-exclusive program produced in partnership with the Jacobs School of Music, and is generously endowed by former IU Trustee the Honorable P.A. Mack Jr.