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BMI Classic Contribution Award winner, conductor and composer Lucas Richman led a record-number of composers in this year’s Conducting Workshop for Visual Media Composers. Held virtually for the first time, this year also marks the first time in the workshop’s history that it featured alumni from previous workshops, with 65…
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…
Lucas Richman’s Music Inspires the Audience to Repair the World
Lucas Richman’s newest work, Symphony:This Will Be Our Reply, made its West Coast Premiere on August 17 to an inspired crowd at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Conducted by Noreen Green of the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, the three movements of music explore the contrasts of great…
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…
Nathan Barr’s Score to “The House with a Clock in its Walls” is Timelessly Engaging for All
BMI composer Nathan Barr has been busy scoring the intriguing new film The House with a Clock in Its Walls. This unique film, which opens tomorrow, promises to keep audiences of all ages on the edge of their seats with its magical story and equally mesmerizing music. Visit the website…
Award-Winning Conductor/Composer Lucas Richman Completes BMI’s 21st Annual Conducting Workshop
BMI completed its 21st annual two-week conducting workshop series led by BMI Classic Contribution Award winner, conductor and composer Lucas Richman. For the final session that took place on July 21st, the eight hand-selected composers conducted a 32-piece orchestra live to picture at BMI composer Nathan Barr’s newly built Bandrika…
BMI to Present 21st Annual Conducting Workshop Led by Award-Winning Conductor/Composer Lucas Richman
BMI is proud to announce that its 21st annual two-week conducting workshop series taught by BMI Classic Contribution Award winner, conductor and composer Lucas Richman will begin July 10. This year’s exemplary group of workshop participants will include film and television composers Alexander Bornstein (Lifetime’s Disappeared), Andy Forsberg…
BMI Composer Kathryn Bostic’s ‘The August Wilson Symphony’ Heralded by PSO
On January 20, 2018, the GRAMMY-winning Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of also GRAMMY-winning BMI composer/conductor Lucas Richman, triumphantly premiered BMI composer Kathryn Bostic’s magnificent work, The August Wilson Symphony. The symphony, which consists of five movements, was inspired by poems and the ten plays of renowned playwright, August…
BMI Hosts Annual “Music in Film” Panel and Dinner At 18th Annual Woodstock Film Festival
BMI kicked off its yearly events during the Woodstock Film Festival on Friday, Oct. 13 with a private dinner at Oriole 9 in Woodstock, New York. Attendees of the private dinner included talent manager Shep Gordon, actor Bill Pullman, film director Leon Gast, Woodstock producer Michael Lang, filmmaker Barbara Kopple,…
BMI Attends Scoring Session for “Flatliners”
The music for Columbia Pictures forthcoming Sci-Fi thriller Flatliners, written by BMI composer Nathan Barr, captivated those in attendance during his scoring session held at the Bridge Recording Studio in Glendale, CA, on August 23. Flatliners is a modern re-telling of the 1990 original of the same name, scheduled to…
Lucas Richman: Lucas Richman Interview - The 2007 BMI Film/TV Awards
Captured at BMI Film TV Awards 2007