Students in the University of Southern California’s Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program were again this year mentored by BMI composer Christopher Lennertz, BMI Vice President Creative – Film, TV & Visual Media Doreen Ringer-Ross and Assistant Vice President Ray Yee, who were guest speakers during a recent class.… Read more...
BMI composer Alexandre Desplat’s music for Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water was recently illuminated in a Q&A discussion with the award-winning composer after a screening of the film by the Society of Composers and Lyricists in Los Angeles. Set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa… Read more...
One of the highlights of BMI’s support of the Sundance Institute Film Music Program is the Music and Sound Design labs at Skywalker Sound in California. At the labs, composers, directors and sound designers intensively collaborate to develop music and sound for documentary and narrative film projects. Workshops and creative… Read more...
BMI is proud to continue its support of the Sundance Institute Film Music Program, which collaborates each year with Skywalker Sound to host the Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Labs at Skywalker Sound. As a founding supporter of the Institute’s Composers Lab, BMI has played a critical role in… Read more...
The Society of Composers & Lyricists welcomed in the music creators behind Disney’s new film Moana with an exclusive screening and Q&A at the Silver Screen Theatre in West Hollywood on November 13. BMI composer Mark Mancina, along with songwriters Opetaia Foa’i, Lin-Manuel Miranda and EVP, Music – Disney &… Read more...
BMI composer Alan Silvestri’s score to the iconic film Back to the Future will hit the big screen once again – this time with an accompanying special performance by the American Youth Symphony, led by multi award-winning BMI composer/conductor David Newman. This exuberant LIVE-to-picture event, of which BMI is a… Read more...
Emmy-winning BMI composer Jeff Beal, who has scored the Jesse Stone film series since it began in 2005, has created a signature score over the years as the lead character, played by Tom Selleck, and his world have evolved. His newest musical installment, for Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise, has… Read more...
Renowned BMI composers Brian Tyler (Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel’s Iron Man 3), Tyler Bates (Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy), and Kevin Kiner (Star Wars Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels) joined equally renowned composer John Debney (Marvel’s Iron Man 2, The Jungle Book) in lending their expertise in a… Read more...
Again this year, BMI’s Vice President and Assistant Vice President of Film/TV Relations, Doreen Ringer-Ross and Ray Yee, along with BMI composer Christopher Lennertz, were guest speakers at the University of Southern California’s Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program, a one year master’s program for composers who want to… Read more...
Alexandre Desplat’s intriguing music for Focus Features’ film The Danish Girl was the much deserved topic of discussion after the Society of Composers & Lyricists’ (SCL) screening of the film on Monday, January 11, at the Landmark West LA. The Q&A session, moderated by acclaimed journalist Jon Burlingame, highlighted the… Read more...
