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Billboard/Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference Offers Registration Discount

The Billboard/Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference is slated for October 24-25, 2011 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles. An educational and networking boon, the conference is an annual favorite of current and aspiring industry leaders alike. BMI songwriters, composers, and publishers still considering a spot at this year’s event, take note: Billboard and the Hollywood Reporter are offering a 15% discount to BMI members. To take…
Sundance Institute Announces Six Fellows for the 2009 Sundance Institute Composers Lab

The Sundance Institute announced the six musicians selected as Fellows at its 2009 Composers Lab on July 15. The lab runs from July 15 - July 29 at the Sundance Resort in Utah. This year's Composer's Lab Fellows are Kim Carroll, Chanda Dancy, Magda Giannikou, Lili Haydn, Christopher Lord, and David Poe. The selected composers bring an eclectic range of talent to the two-week lab, which focuses on the process…
Fellows Benefit From BMI-Sponsored Sundance Composer Lab
BMI celebrated 10 years of sponsorship and participation at the 2008 Sundance Composers Lab, which ran from July 22 thru August 7 in Sundance, Utah. This year’s Composers Lab Fellows were Matt Cartsonis, T. Griffin, iZLER, JJ Lee, Vivek Maddala and Nicholas Pavkovic. During the two-week Lab, Fellows participated in workshops and creative exercises under the guidance of the industry’s leading film composers and film music professionals.
BMI Celebrates 10th Year of Sundance Institute Composers Lab
BMI and the Sundance Institute have announced the six musicians selected for the 2008 Sundance Institute Composers Lab, which runs from July 22 thru August 7 in Sundance, Utah. This year’s Composers Lab Fellows are Matt Cartsonis, T. Griffin, iZLER, JJ Lee, Vivek Maddala and Nicholas Pavkovic. During the two-week Lab, Fellows participate in workshops and creative exercises under the guidance of the industry’s leading film composers and film music…
NYU ‘BMI Day’ Featured Composer Guide To Career Development
New York University‘s Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions presented BMI Day April 3 at the Blackbox Theatre of Pless Hall. The informative “one-of-kind” event focused on career development for film and television composers. NYU’s Ron Sadoff, Associate Professor & Director of Scoring for Film and Multimedia moderated the discussion open to NYU students enrolled within the department. Charles Fox Songwriter…
BMI Celebrates the Creative Process at Sundance

Composers Terence Blanchard, George S. Clinton, Ed Shearnur Among Panelists BMI will present its annual Composer/Director Roundtable during the 2007 Sundance Film Festival being held Jan. 18-28 in Park City, Utah. Entitled "Music & Film: The Creative Process," the roundtable will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 24 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sundance House at the Kimball Art Center (638 Park Avenue). This event…
Filmmakers Hear Feedback on Rough Cuts
BMI's Doreen Ringer Ross, Vice President of Film/TV Relations in Los Angeles, was in New York recently to host the Independent Feature Project (IFP) Rough Cut Lab held during this year's 28th annual IFP Market. The Rough Cut Lab is an annual music mentorship program that is intended to help emerging filmmakers successfully complete their works-in-progress before they enter the marketplace.
BMI Composers Give ‘Coffee Talk’ at LA Film Fest
BMI presented its annual "Coffee Talk" panel on film music during the recent Los Angeles Film Festival, held June 16-26 at various venues throughout the city. The panel took place at the Director's Guild Atrium and was moderated by BMI's Vice President of Film/TV Relations, Doreen Ringer Ross. BMI composers Stewart Copeland ("Desperate Housewives," "Sympatico," "The Amanda Show"), Rolfe Kent ("Sideways,"…
BMI Spotlights Music at 2005 Sundance Film Festival
BMI will be hosting its annual Songwriters Snowball and Composer/Director roundtable at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, being held this year in Park City, UT from January 20-30. BMI has been an ongoing sponsor of the Festival, as well as the Sundance Composers Lab held annually at Sundance in July and August.
BMI Announces 2004 Sundance Composers Lab Fellows
BMI is once again an anchor sponsor of the annual Sundance Institute Composers Lab, which marks its seventh year beginning July 20 and runs until August 4 in Sundance, Utah. BMI's Doreen Ringer Ross, Vice President of Film/TV Relations, returns as a founding advisor. This year's lab features Composers Lab Fellows Peter Fitzpatrick, Aiko Fukushima, Joseph Julian Gonzalez, Gary Louris, Raz Mesinai and Frank Macchia. During…
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| Jan 24 2007 | BMI Composer/Director Roundtable @ Sundanace: Park City, UT |
