About

Breena Loraine is a vocalist, songwriter, and musicologist specializing in film and television music, opera, and early music. She is a consulting musicologist for film and television, providing sync placement suggestions, musical analysis and comparison, genre consulting, historical/period music research, formal musicology and copyright reports, and entertainment industry research and data.

She earned her PhD from UCLA’s Department of Musicology, as well as the Graduate Certificate in Early Modern Studies from UCLA’s Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. Her dissertation, “‘Hollywood’s New Power Players’: Music Supervisors and the Post-2010 Culture of Music Supervision and Sync,” draws on methodologies from musicology, ethnomusicology, media studies, and business theory. She blends scholarship with practical experience in the industry by incorporating analysis of industry trends with reflections from her fieldwork and interviews.

Breena has presented her research at conferences and universities, and has designed and instructed a number of seminars at UCLA and SDSU. She is also a published author with four articles in Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History. Her article, “The ‘Feminine Other’: Italian Opera, the Female Body, and the Society of Dilettanti in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London,” was published in the Spring/Summer 2023 issue of The Opera Journal.

Breena also holds an MBA with a specialization in management, an MA with a specialization in musicology, as well as a BM in vocal performance and business administration, and the Honors Minor in Interdisciplinary Studies from San Diego State University. Breena is passionate about college admissions mentorship and access to music education and performance opportunities for low-income students and has volunteered for organizations dedicated to these causes.

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