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Last week, Jerome traveled to Belgrade, Serbia, to record Pinar Toprak’s score for Blaze of Glory, an animated feature film set to be released later this year. The film, a tale about the origin of the Olympic Games, “tells the story of the Greek mythological hero Pelops and his adventure to save the Olympic torch.” The project, produced by Santoon Productions and endorsed by China’s Olympic committee is a multi-national collaboration by studios in China, United States, Poland and India.

Jerome has worked with composer Pinar Toprak twice before, on Say It In Russian and Order of Redemption. On this new project, Jerome flew to Belgrade to conduct the Belgrade Film Orchestra, a 60-piece symphonic ensemble. The 50-minute score required ten hours of recording (pictures available in the Gallery).

Jerome recently finished working on two flm scores orchestrations: Order of Redemption, for composer Pinar Toprak, and Queen Libussa, for composer Benedikt Brydern.

Order of Redemption is a “dramatic tale of corruption and self-realization, in which one man has to overcome a deep seeded conspiracy and his own lingering past in order to gain the redemption he desires.” The film stars Tom Berenger and Busta Rhymes and is set to be released in 2008. This is the second time Jerome orchestrate a score by Pinar Toprak; they previously worked together on Say It In Russian. As for that previous project, the score for Order of Redemption was recorded in Belgrade, with the Belgrade Film Orchestra.

Queen Libussa is “a historic drama with fantasy elements based on the love story between Libuse, the Slavic mythological heroine of 8th century Bohemia and Premysl, a simple farmer.” Although Jerome has worked many times with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, which will perform the score, this score is the first collaboration between him and composer Benedikt Brydern.

On January 2nd, 2008, Jerome was in Prague to supervise the orchestra recording for John Frizzell’s score to Henry Poole Is Here. The soundtrack called for a string orchestra and was performed by members of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Jerome acted as liaison between John’s studio in Los Angeles and the recording studio in Prague, which were connected in real-time via Internet.

This is the third time Jerome goes to Prague to supervise a recording for John Frizzell, as he was also there two years ago for the recordings of First Born and Stay Alive.

William Ross, whom Jerome has been closely working with for more than a year, just won an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Music Direction category for his work on the 79th Annual Academy Awards broadcast on ABC.

Jerome was one of Ross’ orchestrators as well as his assistant during the production process and the actual ceremony.

This is the second Emmy for Ross, who also won in 1990 for his music direction on the Tiny Toons Adventures episode “Fields of Honey.”

William Ross is nominated for an Emmy award for his work as Music Director on the 79th Academy Awards ceremony last February. Jerome worked closely with Bill as his assistant during the production process and orchestrated various cues.

The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards will be given out on September, 16th. The ceremony will be broadcasted live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on FOX.

Congratulations, Bill!

This January, Jerome teamed again with John Frizzell and orchestrated some of his score to the movie The Reaping, to be released on March 30th. The Warner Bros. movie stars oscar-winner Hilary Swank and is produced by Joel Silver.

Also, last December, Jerome was lead orchestrator on Steve Edwards‘ score for Finding Rin-Tin-Tin (to be released in 2007). The score called for a 65-piece symphonic orchestra, and was recorded in January in Belgrade, Serbia. This is the second time Jerome is working with Steve Edwards; their previous collaboration was on the Project Greenlight movie Feast.

Jerome recently finished orchestration on the Touchtone Pictures movie Primeval, to be released in 2007. The score, which uses extensively the orchestra along with african percussion and processed samples, was written by John Frizzell.

Primeval’s soundtrack was recorded in Czech Republic, by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.

Stay Alive, for which Jerome orchestrated John Frizzell’s film score, is still in theaters nationwide. The movie, which was produced with a $9M budget, has already grossed $22.6M; European releases are expected to start next month.