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Contact your BMI classical representative:
Ralph N. Jackson at rjackson@bmi.com
To affiliate with BMI as a classical composer, please send a copy of your resume and a list of works with information on performances and venues to classical@bmi.com.
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History: BMI and Classical Music
From John Adams, who was recently named the “most performed living American Composer” by the American Symphony Orchestra League, to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music, BMI’s more than 4,000 classical composers cover the full spectrum of contemporary classical music. BMI is proud to represent such prominent and stylistically diverse American composers as Charles Ives, William Bolcom, Michael Torke, Steve Reich, Osvaldo Golijov, Joan Tower, John Harbison, Aaron Kernis, Henry Cowell, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Joseph Schwantner, Gunther Schuller, Tobias Picker, George Crumb, Richard Danielpour, Lou Harrison, Harry Partch, Alan Hovhaness, Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt, Christopher Rouse, Charles Wuorinen, Leon Kirchner, William Schuman, Michael Daugherty and the list of American composers goes on and on. BMI is equally proud to license the works of classical composers from around the world, including such highly regarded composers as Luciano Berio, Giacomo Puccini (SIAE), Ottorino Respighi (SIAE), Toru Takemitsu (JASRAC), Edgard Varese and Heitor Villa-Lobos (UBC).
BMI has a long history of encouraging young classical composers through the BMI Student Composer Awards program. Founded in 1952, this awards program has become the oldest and most prestigious honor for young composers in the Western Hemisphere. Many important composers, including eleven Pulitzer Prize-winners, have received their first recognition through this award. The Student Composer Awards is co-sponsored by BMI and the BMI Foundation, a separate not-for-profit organization which was founded by BMI employees in 1985 to support the creation, performance and study of music.
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