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BMI is excited to present Tribeca Talks: The Art and Business of Scoring for Film, TV & Visual Media, a panel that will be included as part of the Tribeca Festival’s Music Lounge, on Saturday, June 11 at 5:30PM at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn. The panel will be moderated…
BMI Composers Celebrate Women Warriors Who Have Changed the World
Even the concert’s name, Women Warriors: The Voices of Change, evokes powerful inspirational imagery. Now, this groundbreaking live-action event promises to take that emotion to the next level by celebrating some of the world’s most compelling women at 8PM on September 20, at New York City’s Alice Tully Hall. Performed…
BMI Composer Penka Kouneva’s Music Explores the Final Frontier at the Hollywood Bowl
As a composer for film, television, video games and the concert stage, Penka Kouneva’s music has been called “fantastic” (Billboard) and “breath-taking” (NPR). Her many credits include the video game Prince of Persia, The Mummy VR game, the TV series Pandora, which she co-scored with BMI composer Joe Kraemer, festival…
BMI Composers Win Global Success at World Soundtrack Awards
BMI is proud to report that on Wednesday evening in Gent the 17th World Soundtrack Awards honored several BMI composers with prestigious recognition of their outstanding music. BMI composer David Shire received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his impressive and immensely popular work on Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, Alan…
BMI Composers Jeff Beal and Joe Kraemer Winners at World Soundtrack Awards
On Wednesday, October 19, the World Soundtrack Academy announced the winners of the 2016 World Soundtrack Awards in Capitole, Ghent, where award-winning BMI composer Jeff Beal was named Television Composer of the Year and highly regarded BMI composer Joe Kraemer won the prestigious Discovery of the Year award. Film Fest…
Composer James Newton Howard Honored as BMI Icon at 2016 Film/TV Awards
BMI proudly presented its Icon Award to music creator James Newton Howard at the Company’s annual Film/TV Awards, held last night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. The ceremony was hosted by BMI Vice President, Film/TV Relations, Doreen Ringer-Ross, and BMI President and CEO Mike O’Neill, who…
Composer Joe Kraemer Helps Make ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’ Possible
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is currently the #1 movie at the box office, but BMI supported the film’s composer at a private screening and Q&A presented by the Society of Composers & Lyricists on the lot at Paramount Pictures in LA. Moderated by journalist and author, Jon Burlingame, the…
Meet the BMI Composers Who Have Had a Breakout Year
It’s been a fantastic year for Broadcast Music, Inc. composers. Just look at Mychael Danna, who is on a 2013 award-winning streak, having just celebrated his most recent win at the Creative Arts Emmys. He’s not alone. In fact, there are so many talented BMI composers working in…