The Hollywood Music In Media Award (HMMA) winners have been announced, with many BMI composers taking top Visual Media honors as well as nominations. The prestigious awards are the first in the year to honor original music (song and score) in all visual media from around the globe, including film,… Read more...
From the spine-tingling scores for Us, Get Out, and Ma to the gritty and horror-filled themes in Pet Sematary and Hellraiser to the ultra-spooky cues in Critters and The Head Hunter, horror films wouldn’t be nearly as terrifying without their musical scores. BMI composers Christopher Young and Gregory Tripi joined… Read more...
BMI proudly congratulates BMI film composer and orchestrator Sean McMahon for his new title as chair of the film scoring department at Berklee College of Music. McMahon, who is a Berklee alumnus, scored the films The Grudge III, 400 Days, and The Great White Storm, and has composed additional music… Read more...
Several BMI composers had their works featured last week at the International Film Music Festival held in Tenerife. The festival, which was created from the ground up by composer/conductor Diego Navarro, has gained international prominence and now boasts an exceptional orchestra and world class concert venue. This year, the festival… Read more...
BMI Vice President of Film, TV & Visual Media Relations, Doreen Ringer-Ross, and award-winning BMI composer Thomas Newman proudly presented this year’s film scoring scholarship to Berklee College of Music student Kara Talve on November 13. The BMI-sponsored scholarship is presented each year to a film scoring student selected by… Read more...
BMI composers Lolita Ritmanis and Miriam Cutler completed a full day of giving expert first-hand advice to Berklee College of Music students during BMI Day at Berklee on November 14. The curriculum for the highly anticipated day included a master class taught by the award-winning composers, as well as a… Read more...
BMI is pleased to announce that Nathan Drube, a Berklee College of Music film scoring and composition dual major, has been awarded the 2015 BMI Film Scoring Scholarship, which was presented to him by BMI composer Christopher Lennertz and BMI Vice President, Film/TV Relations, Doreen Ringer-Ross. Drube, whose principle instrument… Read more...
For years, BMI composer Dan Licht’s appetite for novel sounds propelled him from one musical discipline to the next. But as he tells it, that bank of knowledge didn’t totally click together until he tried his hand at composing for the big screen—a suggestion that came from his former classmate,… Read more...
Broadcast Music, Inc. saluted the composers of music featured in the past year’s top-grossing films, top-rated primetime network television series and highest-ranking cable network programs at its annual Film & TV Awards, which took place at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on May 15, 2013. Renowned composer… Read more...
Andalusia is word that pleases the tongue. Especially when you realize that it’s meant to be pronounced like the name of a woman and not like a form of nervous disorder. Anda-lucia. al-Andalus, the name given by the Muslim caliphate to the Iberian peninsula, and now retained only by its… Read more...
Captured at BMI Film TV Awards 2007
