BMI and Renowned Composer Nicholas Britell Celebrate “BMI Day” at Berklee College of Music

BMI joined the prestigious Berklee College of Music on Friday, November 5, to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of “BMI Day.” During the virtual event, BMI’s Senior Vice President of Creative, Alex Flores, and esteemed Emmy award-winning BMI composer Nicholas Britell, presented the BMI Film Scoring Scholarship to Berklee student Shayn Toothman.

Britell delivered a keynote and discussed his early work and how he got his start in the industry, as well as the importance of networking and building relationships in college and how PROs are crucial and great resources for early career development.

Some of Britell’s works include music for the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight, The King, The Big Short, Vice, Cruella and HBO’s hit series Succession, for which he won an Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme.

BMI is proud to continue its partnership with Berklee in supporting the development of emerging student composers, including this year’s BMI Film Scoring Scholarship recipient, Shayn Toothman. Toothman is a promising young composer who has written and arranged internationally performed programmatic concert works, as well as dramatic works for film and video games. He is the founding member and VP of the Classical Musicians Coalition at Berklee, the Audio Director for Scuffed Game Studios and Orchestra Manager of Berklee’s Motion Picture Orchestra.