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During a virtual presentation on Monday, Doreen Ringer-Ross, BMI’s Vice President, Creative Relations, along with UCLA Extension Program Director, Pascale Cohen-Olivar, named Ashwin Subramanian this year’s prestigious Jerry Goldsmith Scholarship recipient. As a talented composer, producer and vocalist, Subramanian’s knack for creating multi-layered electronic orchestrations and lyrical melodies has helped…
BMI Mentors Emerging Visual Media Composers with Conducting Workshop Led by Lucas Richman
BMI celebrated the 22nd annual Conducting Workshop for Visual Media Composers with a final session at Nathan Barr’s Bandrika Studios in Tarzana, California on August 24. The workshop gave eight rising composers the chance to hone their conducting skills under the direction of award-winning conductor and composer Lucas Richman. Over…
BMI Announces Participants of 2019 Conducting Workshop for Visual Media Composers
BMI has announced the selected participants for its 22nd annual Conducting Workshop for Visual Media Composers, led by BMI Classic Contribution Award winner, conductor and composer Lucas Richman. Beginning August 13, the elite group will spend two weeks sharpening their conducting skills to music written by BMI film composing legends…
BMI Awards Jerry Goldsmith Film Scoring Scholarship to UCLA Extension Student Antoni Mairata March
BMI Vice President, Creative, Film, TV & Visual Media Relations, Doreen Ringer-Ross, along with UCLA Extension Program Director Pascale Cohen-Olivar, proudly presented composer Mairata March with this year’s prestigious BMI/Jerry Goldsmith Film Scoring Scholarship. Named in honor of the late Oscar and Emmy Award-winning film and television composer, the BMI/Jerry…
BMI Helps Celebrate the Legacy of Composer Jerry Goldsmith
On February 7, BMI’s Anne Cecere had the honor of celebrating the man, the music, and the legacy of Jerry Goldsmith on what would have been his 90th birthday. During his more than five-decade career, Goldsmith composed the music for nearly 200 films, over a dozen iconic TV themes, and…
Joseph Neidorf Awarded BMI/Jerry Goldsmith Film Scoring Scholarship
BMI Vice President Creative - Film, TV & Visual Media, Doreen Ringer-Ross, proudly presented composer Joseph Neidorf with this year’s prestigious BMI/Jerry Goldsmith Film Scoring Scholarship. Named after Oscar and Emmy Award-winning film and television composer Jerry Goldsmith, the scholarship is awarded each year to a promising UCLA Extension student…
He Shoots, He Scores: The Story of Film Composer Scott Salinas
Every artist needs a secret weapon, and for award-winning composer H. Scott Salinas, it’s versatility. That, and a one-dollar piece of tubing from Home Depot (more on that later). Salinas, who studied at Princeton University and Berklee College of Music, was the youngest Grand Prize Winner of Turner Classic Movies’…
Legendary BMI Composer Jerry Goldsmith Posthumously Receives Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Although a behind-the-scenes presence in epic films and TV series that include several Star Trek sagas, The Omen, Poltergeist, Patton, Basic Instinct, The Wind and the Lion, Alien, L.A. Confidential, The Twilight Zone, Dr. Kildare, The Man From U.N.C.L.E, The Waltons, and many, many more, the late Oscar and Emmy-winning…
UCLA Extension Student Tomasz Golka Awarded 2017 BMI/Jerry Goldsmith Film Scoring Scholarship
BMI Vice President, Film/TV & Visual Media Relations, Doreen Ringer-Ross, along with UCLA Extension Program Director Pascale Cohen-Olivar, have jointly announced Tomasz Golka as this year’s winner of the prestigious BMI/Jerry Goldsmith Film Scoring Scholarship. The scholarship, named after Oscar and Emmy Award-winning film and television composer Jerry Goldsmith, is…
Composer David Heymann Awarded BMI/Jerry Goldsmith Scholarship
BMI Vice President, Film/TV Relations, Doreen Ringer-Ross, and Program Director, UCLA Extension Entertainment Studies, Pascale Cohen-Olivar, proudly announced that David Heymann has won the 2016 BMI/Jerry Goldsmith Film Scoring Scholarship at UCLA Extension. The announcement was made at BMI’s Los Angeles office with BMI’s Assistant Vice President, Film/TV Relations, Ray…