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The BMI/NYU 12-day TV workshop concluded another successful year, this time online. Led this year by BMI composers Sean Callery (24, Homeland), Blake Neely (Arrow, Riverdale) Peter Nashel (Book Club, I.Tonya, Iconoclasts), Lyle Workman (Good Boys, Superbad) and Chad Fischer (Scandal, Garden State), along with NYU’s Ron Sadoff and Mark…
BMI Celebrates its Top Composers at 36th Annual BMI Film, TV & Visual Media Awards
BMI announced its 36th annual Film, TV & Visual Media Awards celebrating the top-performing composers in film, TV and visual media of the previous year. The honorees were revealed across BMI’s social media and digital platforms, which features a selection of notable composers including multiple award winners Tyler Bates, Hildur…
BMI Supports Krakow Film Music Festival Online Performances
In place of this year’s prestigious Krakow Film Music Festival, which has been a cornerstone event for visual media composers throughout the world, KFMF is presenting online videos of past performances from their festivals, with the work of several BMI composers front and center. Featured in the videos…
Behind the Music: Celebrating Fan-Favorite Sounds/Scores of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and TV
CW3PR and RhapsodyPR proudly presented their Behind the Music panel at this year’s Comic-Con, featuring a variety of music creators on some of SDCC’s top fan-favorite films and television shows. Top maestros discussed how their work elevates the strange, action-packed, terrifying and ethereal in today’s most buzzed-about projects. An educational…
BMI/NYU TV Scoring Workshop Mentors Aspiring Composers
BMI and NYU again this year partnered in June on presenting a 12-day television scoring workshop for emerging composers. Participants received hands-on experience from award-winning BMI composers that included John Kaefer (Shark Tank, America’s Got Talent), David Schwartz (Arrested Development, Trading Places), Sean Callery (Bones, 24), Mandy Hoffman (I Love…
Nathan Barr Reveals His Part in Composers Reimagining Classic Silent Films
On May 3 and 4, BMI will sponsor three unique events for movie-goers when several film, TV and visual media composers will unveil their new scores to classic silent films in “Silent Films Live 2.” The live-to-picture events will take place at Bandrika Studios in Los Angeles, a space custom-built…
BMI Proudly Congratulates its 2018 Creative Arts Emmy Nominees
The nods for this year’s Creative Arts Emmys are in with BMI composers poised to win several of the prestigious trophies on September 8 and 9. In fact, BMI composers swept the nominations for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score), with Ramin Djawadi receiving nominations for both…
BMI Composers on SCL Panel Talk Scoring Music for Netflix
BMI proudly supported Emmy-winning composers Kris Bowers and Sean Callery as they shared their insights Monday night on the music they’ve written for Netflix blockbusters. The panel, which was held at Raleigh Studios in LA, was put together by the Society of Composers & Lyricists and moderated by Arts Journalist…
John Williams Honored With Special Award at 34th Annual BMI Film, TV & Visual Media Awards
BMI proudly held its 34th annual Film, TV & Visual Media Awards last night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The private ceremony was hosted by Vice President Creative – Film, TV & Visual Media, Doreen Ringer-Ross and BMI President and CEO Mike O’Neill, who honored prolific…
BMI Partners with NYU Steinhardt to Present Music in Advertising and Television Scoring Workshops
BMI proudly continued its partnership with the NYU Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions to present the NYU/BMI Music in Advertising Workshop on June 10-12. This year the collaboration also included the first-of-its-kind Television Scoring Workshop, held June 13-20, at the renowned school. Both of these informative workshops…