When approaching scoring a film or television project, Venezuelan born composer Sandro Morales-Santoro believes that the story comes first. Building upon the folk and popular music of his homeland — and his studies at the Berklee College of Music — he’ll introduce unexpected instruments and percussion to enhance that story,… Read more...
For the 20th year, award-winning BMI conductor and composer Lucas Richman has successfully lead a six-day intensive conducting workshop for an elite group of BMI composers. This once-in-a-career opportunity, which is sponsored by BMI, provided the participants with hands on experience, under Richman’s expert guidance, to hone their conducting skills… Read more...
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of BMI’s Conducting Workshop, lead by award-winning conductor-composer Lucas Richman, the Company held a private reception at its LA office attended by various Oscar, Emmy, and GRAMMY award-winning and nominated composers who were past participants of the elite series of classes. The reception allowed… Read more...
BMI continued its focus on nurturing the art of conducting at the Company’s annual two-week conducting workshop series taught by BMI Classic Contribution Award winner, conductor and composer Lucas Richman. During the workshop, eight selected participants had the opportunity to hone their conducting skills, from mastering fundamentals and multi-meter scores,… Read more...
Members of BMI’s Latin team, Carolina Arenas and Krystina DeLuna, recently hosted a panel focusing on the differences in composing music for TV vs. film during the 8th annual Monitor Latino Conference, held at the Cintermex in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. With introductions by Joel Garza, panelists Juan Carlos Rodriguez… Read more...
Multitalented BMI composer Juan Carlos Rodriguez knew from a young age that writing music was his calling. His Venezuelan roots gave him a unique perspective on many of the Latin music styles from neighboring countries and was further cemented during his time spent in Miami, a Latin-American hub. This continent-spanning… Read more...
Broadcast Music, Inc.’s Senior Director, Film/TV Relations, Lisa Feldman, joined BMI composers Juan Carlos Rodriguez, who was nominated for Best Original Score, TV Show/Digital Streaming Series for Matador, and Gregg Alexander, who composed the score and songs for Begin Again, at the 5th Annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards on… Read more...
Broadcast Music, Inc. partnered with Warner/Chappell Music to present a two-day songwriting camp on July 29-30, 2014, at the Gibson Showroom in Beverly Hills, CA. The camp was created as an opportunity for selected songwriters to come together in a comfortable environment to cultivate new collaborations, hone their skills, reunite… Read more...
BMI will continue to celebrate and nurture the art of conducting at the organization’s annual six-day Conducting for the Film Composer workshop series, taught by BMI Classic Contribution Award winner, conductor and composer Lucas Richman. Each year, an elite group of BMI composers are selected to participate in… Read more...
Married couples in music are few but memorable. Think Sonny and Cher, James Taylor and Carly Simon, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. To sustain a career out of making music with your spouse, a prerequisite is to be believable as a couple, able to project through the… Read more...
Captured at 2010 Conducting for the Film Composer workshop
