The BMI Composer Awards is a competition for young composers of classical music. Founded in 1951, the competition has become one of the most coveted and prestigious awards for young composers in the Western Hemisphere.
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Riad Abdel-Gawad (1989)
John Adams (1970)
Judah Adashi (2001)
Bruce M. Adolphe (1968)
Anthony Aibel (1986)
Stephen J. Albert (1960)
William H. Albright (1961, 66, 68)
Andrew S. Allen (2010)
Seymour Altucher (1957)
Richard S. Ames (1967)
Allen Anderson (1976)
Timothy Hall Andres (CSP 2004)
Evan Antonellis (2009)
Preben Antonsen (CSP 2005)
Bruce Archibald (1956)
Dominick Argento (1953)
Luis Arias (1964)
Christopher Ariza (2001, 02)
Michael P. Arnowitt (1978)
Daniel Asia (1978)
Niccolo Athens (CSP 2006, 09)
Jan Bach (1956)
Christopher Bailey (BBP 1994)
W. Claude Baker, Jr. (1973)
Katherine Balch (2017, 18)
Jacob Bancks (2006, 08)
Félix Frédéric Baril (WSP 2001)
Anthony Barrese (1999, 01)
Jacob A. Barton (2006)
David S. Bates (1958)
Mason Bates (2003)
Stephen David Beck (1984)
Gordon Beeferman (1996, 98, WSP 02)
Larry T. Bell (1973)
William Benjamin (1965)
James W. Bennett III (1986)
William Eric Benson (1970)
Robert Bernat (1956)
David Bird (2016)
Susan Blaustein (1978)
Christian-Frédéric Bloquert (2023)
Stephen Blumberg (1986)
Alexander Bogdanowitsch (1995)
William Bolcom (1953)
Anthony Bonamici (WSP 1992)
Robert Boury (1969)
Conal Boyce (1962)
Peter Boyer (1994, 96)
Michael Boyman (WSP 2014)
Mark Edward Bradshaw (1988)
Aiyana Tedi Braun (2017)
Ronald Braunstein (1973)
Amelia Brey (2019)
Todd Brief (1975)
Allen Brings (1956)
Whitman Brown (1982)
Matthew Aaron Browne (2015)
Richmond Browne (1956, 57)
Robert S. W. Buckley (1965)
Joshua Burdick (1987)
Martin C. Butler (1983)
Ronald Caltabiano (1980, 81, 83)
Cesar Camarero (1983)
Frank Philip Campo (1957)
Alexander Cardona (1975, 76)
William Bayard Carlin (1957)
Kurt Carpenter (1968, 71)
Carlos Carrillo (1993)
Delvyn Case (2000)
Elnora Case (1952)
Francisco Castillo Trigueros (2011)
John A. Celona (1971)
Christopher Chandler (2013)
Sebastian Chang (2002, 05, 07)
Derek Charke (1993)
Ryan Chase (WSP 2011, 12)
Stephen Chatman (1973, 74, 75)
Aaron Cecchini-Butler (2017)
Wendy F. Chen (1983, 84)
Michael Cherry (1978)
Genevieve Chinn (1954)
Bryan Christian (2007)
James R. Clarke (1991)
William E. Coble (1983)
Mickey Cohen (1970)
David Collins (1992)
Henri Colombat (2019, 20)
Juan Pablo Contreras (WSP 2013)
Sidney Corbett (1985)
Ramiro Cortes (1953, 54, 57)
Jeffery V. Cotton (1978, 80, 81)
Grant Covell (1985)
Forrest Covington (1982)
Eugene Cramer (1952)
Thomas Crawford (1976)
Donald Crockett (1972)
George H. Crumb (1956)
Glenn Crytzer (2005)
Alvin S. Curran (1963)
Jed Curtis (1958)
Stefan Cwik (2013)
Jonathan Cziner (WSP 2018)
Anthony Daniels (1981)
Stephen S. Dankner (1967)
Stephen T. Danyew (2006)
Mario Davidovsky (1959)
Daniel Thomas Davis (2006)
Donald R. Davis (1979, 80, 82)
Tyson Davis (2020)
Jonathan Dawe (1986, 91)
Kevin Day (2019)
Ryan T. Deasy (1998)
Stephen Dembski (1974)
Thomas J. Dempster (2004)
Richard Derby (1974)
Mark Bernard DeVoto (1960)
Nicholas Oberg Deyoe (2008)
Robert Dick (1973)
Peter M. Dickey (1965)
Paul J. Dickinson (1989)
Stephen Dickman (1967, 68)
Andrew Dionne (1999)
Michael Djupstrom (WSP 2004)
Charles M. Dodge (1962, 63, 65, 66)
William Doerrfeld (1985)
Arjan Singh Dogra (2024)
Theodore Dollarhide (1975)
Paul Michael Dooley (2010)
Andreas Dorfler (1983)
William Dougherty (2013)
Jonathan Drexler (1975)
John Stephen Dydo (1971)
David Dzubay (1987, 88)
Dennis J. Eberhard (1968)
Michael Edwards (1993)
Aaron Einbond (1994, 2004)
Michelle Ekizian (1981)
Noam Elkies (1980, 81)
Robert J. Elkjer (1980)
Jonathan Elliott (1985, 87)
Christopher John Michael Enloe (2023)
Alvin L. Epstein (1952)
David M. Epstein (1954)
Paul H. Epstein (1968)
Humphrey Evans III (1963, 66, 69)
Eric Ewazen (1973)
Brendan Kelley Faegre (2009)
Seare Ahmad Farhat (2023)
Aaron Feldman (1988)
Micangelo Ferrante (CSP 2021)
Scott Fessler (1977)
Michael Fiday (1984, 85)
Corey Field (1978, 79)
Michael Fink (1961)
Joshua Fishbein (2012)
Stephen D. Fisher (1960)
Christopher J. Fisher-Lochhead (CSP 2001)
Daniel Foley (1966, 69, 70)
David Foley (1966, 68)
George C. Forest (1956)
Michael-Thomas Alexander Foumai (2010, 11, 13)
Primous Fountain III (1967)
Clare Franco (1966, 68)
Andrew Frank (1969, 70)
Natasha Frank (2023)
Julian Fueyo (2020)
David Fulmer (2008)
Hal Freedman (1974)
Edwin A. Freeman (1954)
Stefan Freund (WSP, BBP 1996, WSP 1999)
Jefferson Friedman (2000)
Eric Peter Froeberg (2001)
Vivian Fung (2000)
Harley Gaber (1964, 67)
Samuel Gale (1956)
Gilbert Galindo (2006, 08)
Elizabeth Gartman (WSP 2021)
Robert Gates (1995)
Robert Gauldin (1952)
Steve Gellman (1963)
Steven Gilbert (1963, 65, 66)
Michael Gilbertson (2013)
Jeremy Gill (1992, 95)
Laurence Gingold (1993)
Chambliss Giobbi (1984, 85)
Virginia Gittens (1952)
Paul Glass (1957)
Philip M. Glass (1959)
Ellen Glickman (1959)
Robert Fraser Glover (1961)
Burton Goldstein (1975)
Sydney Goodwin (1972)
Jack S. Gottlieb (1954)
Gabriel Ian Gould (1996, 99)
Max Michael Grafe (WSP 2015)
Grey Grant (2021)
Marjorie Greif (1958)
Margaret Ann Griebling (1974)
John William Griffith II (2024)
Peter Griffith (1968)
Murray Gross (1974)
Eric Guinivan (2007, 10, 11)
Trevor M. Gureckis (2007)
Mark Gustavson (1979, 82, 83)
Dan Gutwin (1975)
Luke Haaksma (2024)
Saad Nadim Haddad (2014, 18)
Daron Aric Hagen (1983, 84, 85)
Gabrielle Nina Haigh (CSP 2007, CSP 09)
Guy Hallman (1971)
Kevin Hanlon (1978)
Rebecca Hammann (1979)
Mena Mark Hanna (2011)
Higo H. Harada (1953)
John Harbison (1954)
Gary Hardie (1972)
Joan Harkness (1970)
Ennis Suavengco Harris (2024)
Matthew L. Harris (1978)
Stephen Hartke (1969, 71)
Hugh Hartwell (1966)
Matthew J. Hatty II (2010)
John Hawkins (1968)
John Heineman (1964)
William C. Heinrichs (1976)
Barrie W. Heitkamp (1952)
Robert E. Henderson (1965)
Rafael A. Hernandez III (1998)
Sharon L. Hershey (1982, 84, 87)
David Hertzberg (WSP 2011)
Frederick Heutte (1953)
William Hibbard (1960)
Joel Hoffman (1971)
Stanley M. Hoffman (1984)
Patrick Holcomb (2020)
Aaron Holloway-Nahum (2007)
Nicholas F. Hopkins (1985, 87)
Michael M. Horvit (1958)
Christopher Howard (1988)
Andrew Hsu (WSP 2012)
Joseph A. Hudson (1976)
Jack Hughes (2016)
Brian Clarence Hulse (1996)
Gerald Humel (1958)
Arthur B. Hunkins (1961)
Peter F. Huse (1963)
Kamran Ince (1985)
Kurt Isaacson (2013)
Brian M. Israel (1966, 68)
Ralph N. Jackson (1976, 77)
Ben S. Jacob (2003)
Andrew Seth Jacobs (1993)
Shawn Jaeger (2007, 08)
Pierre Jalbert (1989, 92)
Stephen A. Jaffe (1974)
Donald Jenni (1952, 54, 55)
Evan Johnson (CSP 2000)
Derek Johnson (2002)
Maya Miro Johnson (WSP CSP 2020)
Roger O. Johnson (1965)
Tellef Johnson (1997, CSP 99, 00)
Stuart H. Jones (1989)
Jeffrey Jones (1969)
John Kaefer (2002)
Dennis K. M. Kam (1963, 67)
Liam Kaplan (2019)
Michael Kassler (1953, 55, 56, 57)
Daniel Kastner (1988, 91)
Daniel D. Kellogg (WSP 2000)
Alan Kemler (1958)
Martin Kennedy (2004)
Aaron J. Kernis (1976, 82, 83)
Linda Kernohan (1996)
Daniel Kessner (1969, 70)
Cheng Jin Koh (WSP 2022)
Nancy Kho (2000)
Carson Kievman (1974, 75)
Philip I. Kim (1993)
Jack Normain Kimmell (1957)
Terrence T. Kincaid (1968)
Jerome P. Kitzke (1980)
Peter Knell (1995)
David Koblitz (1970, 71, 73)
Laura C. A. Kolker (1995)
Stanley R. Konopka, Jr. (1982)
David Kowalski (1980)
Laura M. Kramer (2012)
Timothy A. Kramer (1981, 83)
Jeffrey Krasky (1969)
Matthias Kriesberg (1971, 78)
Ian Krouse (1981)
Mikel Kuehn (1988)
Tonia Ko (2015, 16)
Tristan Xavier Köster (WSP 2016)
Thomas Kotcheff (2015)
Michael Kurek (1977)
Rachel Kutten (1973)
Oliver Kwapis (2022)
David A. Lang (1980, 81)
Judith Lang (1965)
Stephen Lano (1975)
Anne LeBaron (1978)
Mindy Lee (1977)
James Legg (1981, 84, 86)
Alan Leichtling (1962)
Ellene S. Levenson (1963)
Todd Bennett Levin (1982, 83, 85)
Gerald Levinson (1969, 70, 73)
Leonard Mark Lewis (1999)
Paul Eddison Lewis (2014)
David Paul Lieberman (1985)
Lowell Liebermann (1986)
Ryan Elliott Lindveit (2016)
David T. Little (2002, 04)
Robert Lombardo (1956, 57)
Michel Longtin (1971)
Denis Lorrain (1969, 72)
Jeffrey Louie (1989)
Yeeren I. Low (WSP 2008, CSP 10, CSP 11)
Maxwell Lu (EZA, CSP 2023)
Ronald Lubetsky (1980, 83)
Howard Lubin (1967, 68, 69)
Grant Luhmann (2014, 20)
Joseph E. Lyszczarz (2012)
Marcus Macauley (CSP 2001)
David MacDonald (2006)
Teo Macero (1953)
Steven Mackey (1981)
Alan W. Mackwell (2022)
Philippe Macnab-Séguin (2012)
Robert Maggio (1988, 89)
Phillip Magnuson (1970)
Shafer Mahoney (1991, 92)
Igor Maia (2010)
William Maiben (1975)
John David Mann (1969)
Richard Manners (1965)
Paul Marquardt (1987)
Deric D. Marshall (1986)
Gene Marshall (1989)
Donald Martino (1952, 53)
Charles Mason (1979)
Martin Matalon (1983)
William Matthews (1972, 73, 74)
Priya Mayadas (1979)
Frank L. McCarty (1965)
John McGinn (1978, 83)
David M. McKay (1976)
Elliott Miles McKinley (1991)
William Thomas McKinley (1962)
Lucy McKnight (CSP 2019)
Andrew Evans McManus (2009)
Cindy McTee (1976)
Jane Meenaghan (2020)
Noah Gideon Meites (2009)
Joseph Meland (2015)
Ruth Meyer (1983, 84, 85)
Ábel M.G.E. (2022)
Donal R. Michalsky (1957)
Daniel James Miller (2016, 17)
John L. Mills-Cockell (1966)
Thomas E. Morgan (1986)
Robert Morris (1968)
Paul Mortilla (2016)
Lawrence Morton (1966)
Stephen L. Mosko (1971, 73)
Robert P. Mounsey (1970)
Otto Muller (2007)
Arthur Murphy (1960, 62)
Jeff Myers (1998)
Phoebe Myhill (1986)
Fredric Myrow (1960, 63)
David Nalesnik (1994)
Rafael Nassif (WSP 2009)
Eric Nathan (WSP 2008)
Paul C. Nauert (1986)
Joseph Jude Navari (1991)
Clint Needham (WSP 2007)
Leon Clayton Nedbalek (1956)
William Neil (1979)
Daniel Nelson (1985, 87)
Peter Ness (1966)
Marlos Nobre (1961)
David Noon (1967, 70)
Corinne Tatiana Nordmann (1988, 92, 93)
James D. Norman (2003)
Paul Novak (EZA 2024)
Eugene O’Brien (1967, 70)
Michael Oesterle (WSP 1993, WSP 94)
Henry Onderdonk (1957)
Denise Ondishko (1978)
John Orfe (WSP BBP 1997)
Tom Osborne (CSP 2000)
Paul D. Osterfield (1998)
Sofia Jen Ouyang (2023, 2024)
Petros Ovsepyan (1992)
Joan Panetti (1965, 66)
Sehyeok (Joseph) Park (CSP 2022)
Michael D. Parsons (CSP 2012, CSP 13)
Russell J. Peck (1964, 66, 68)
Sarah Peebles (1987)
José J. Peña Aguayo (1996)
Nicholas Scott Pender (1984)
Joshua Penman (1998)
Scott Perkins (2004)
Matthew Peterson (2007, 10)
Bryan Pezzone (1984)
Joel C. Phillips (1982)
Tobias Picker (1977)
Robert Janusz Pierzak (CSP 2003)
Daniel Plante (1975)
Lara Poe (WSP 2017, 21)
Larry Polansky (1979)
Jonathan L. Posthuma (2011)
Colin Bradley Pridy (2002)
James Primosch (1981)
J. Theodore Prochazka (1958)
Nicholas Denton Protsack (2021)
David Serendero Proust (1959)
Joel Puckett (2003)
Thomas R. Putsche (1958)
Kevin Puts (1994, 95, WSP 98)
Jonathan Rabson (1981)
David Rakowski (1982, 83)
Marco-Adrián Ramos Rodríguez (WSP 2019)
John Rea (1968)
Jay Reise (1973, 74)
Paul Reller (1986)
Phillip C. Rhodes (1964, 65)
Dennis D. Riley (1966, 67)
Carlos Rafael Rivera (1996)
Subaram Raman (2010)
Joy Redmond (CSP 2018)
Eric N. Robertson (1966)
Jody Darien Rockmaker (1983, 86)
John Earl Rogers (1963)
Rodney I. Rogers (1974, 75, 76)
Chris Rogerson (2013, 14)
Elliot Roman (2021)
Philip Rosenberg (1976)
Mathew Rosenblum (1978)
Alejandro Iglesias Rossi (1983)
Jason Roth (1997)
Christopher Rouse (1972, 73)
Anton Rovner (1988)
William Frederick Rowe (2011)
Christopher Roze (1974)
Justin Rubin (1997)
Arno Safran (1954)
Jonathan Arthur Saggau (2001)
Michael Sahl (1956)
Peter Salemi (1969)
Eric Samuelson (1988, 91)
Steven Sandberg (1970)
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez (1987, 88)
David William Sanford (1988)
Greg Sanders (1982)
Erik Santos (1989)
David Saperstein (1961, 63, 64)
Avik Sarkar (2015)
John Sarracco (1971)
Walter B. Saul (1968, 69)
Donald Scavarda (1953)
Michael Schachter (2013)
Daniel Schechter (1981, 87)
Michael Schelle (1982)
Heather Anne Schmidt (1993, 94, 95)
Brian Schober (1972)
David Schober (1991, 94)
Matthew Schultheis (2017, 18, 19)
Arlan N. Schultz (1989)
Joseph C. Schwantner (1965, 66, 67)
Monte Schwarzwalder (1978)
David R. Scott (1986)
Earl K. Scott, Jr. (1952)
Daria Semegen (1967, 69)
Charles Sepos (1972)
Jose Serebrier (1956)
Thomas M. Sergey (1979)
Luis Maria Serra (1966)
Michael Seyfrit (1970)
Ray Shattenkirk (1979)
Joseph Sheehan (WSP 2003, WSP 05)
Robert Sheff (1960)
Nina Shekhar (2022)
Leon Shernoff (1981)
Nathan Shields (2003, 07))
David Shuler (1975)
Daniel Silliman (WSP 2015)
Edgardo J. Simone (1977)
Boris Skalsky (1996)
Helge Skjeveland (1973)
Christopher J. Smith (1981)
Gabriella Smith (2018)
Hale Smith, Jr. (1952)
Vid Smooke (WSP 1995)
Pieter A. Snapper (1991)
David Snow (1977, 79)
Annika K. Socolofsky (2017)
David B. Soley (1985, 86)
Kathleen Solose (1967)
Ricardo A. Coelho de Souza (1999)
D. J. Sparr (1995, 00)
Gregory Spears (1997, CSP 99)
Daniel Spector (1983)
Jeffrey Stanek (CSP 2003, 05)
Mark H. Steidel (1976)
Greg A. Steinke (1967)
Donald A. Steven (1969)
David N. Stewart (1965)
Randall E. Stokes (1976)
Philip Stoll (1972)
Robert Suderburg (1961)
John Supko (1997)
William Susman (1984)
Ari Sussman (2018)
Michael Svoboda (1981)
Daniel A. Tacke (2006)
Hal Tamblyn (1963)
Conrad Tao (CSP 2005)
Ziyi Tao (CSP 2024)
Bruce J. Taub (1972)
Tyler Taylor (2019)
Ira Taxin (1971, 73)
Benjamin D. Taylor (2011)
Phil Taylor (2009, WSP 14, 16)
Daniel Temkin (2012, 14)
Lexi Temple (CSP 1999)
Matthew Tierney (1997)
Reynold Tharp (WSP 1996)
Augusta Read Thomas (1988)
Janell M. Thome (1988)
Amy Thompson (2018)
Keith A. Paulson Thorp (1978)
Michael Sidney Timpson (1995)
Richard Toensing (1962, 63)
Spencer Stuart Topel (2005)
Michael Torke (1982, 83, 84)
Raymond J. Torres-Santos (1982)
Christopher Trapani (2006)
Richard D. Trifan (1966)
Roland Trogan (1954)
Preston Trombly (1969)
Colin Tucker (2006)
Ruby Turok-Squire (2020)
Michael Udow (1970)
Cynthia Valenzuela (1988)
Rodger D. Vaughan (1952)
Dan Visconti (2003)
Scott Wollschleger (2004)
Kevin M. Walczyk (1986)
Wayne A. Walker (1972)
Patricia Wallinga (2015)
Miles Walter (2018)
Anna-Louise Walton (2019)
Derrick Wang (2010)
Sydney Wang (CSP 2017)
David Ward-Steinman (1953, 54, 59, 60)
Dalit Paz Warshaw (1983, 87)
Roderick Watkins (1987)
Kari Watson (2022)
Alice Webber (1966)
Michael Weingartner (1998)
Benjamin P. Wenzelberg (CSP 2014, 15)
David Werfelmann (2011)
Tyler Goodrich White (1985)
Ryan L. Whitney (1968)
Stephen Wilcox (1997)
Linda Ruth Wilder (1961)
William Wilder (1958)
Mark E. Wilson (1972)
David Winkler (1971)
Jean Winters (1952)
Hugh M. Wolff (1968, 69, 70)
Jeffrey Wood (1975, 78, 79)
Geoffrey M. Wooden (2002)
Neal Woodson (1986)
Charles Wuorinen (1959, 61, 62, 63)
Lenard Yen (1975, 77)
Jay Alan Yim (1981, 82, 83)
Nina C. Young (2010)
Roger Zare (2007, 09, 12)
Justin Zeitlinger (CSP 2016, 17)
(WSP = William Schuman Prize)
(BBP = Boudleaux Bryant Prize)
(CSP = Carlos Surinach Prize)
(EZA = Ellen Zwilich Award)