BMI Mentors Emerging Visual Media Composers with Conducting Workshop Led by Lucas Richman

Final Session held at Nathan Barr’s Bandrika Studios

Posted in News on August 27, 2019
Pictured (L-R) during BMI’s 22nd annual Conducting Workshop are (front row): BMI composer Sage Lewis, BMI’s Anne Cecere and Philip Shrut, lead conductor Lucas Richman, BMI’s Doreen Ringer-Ross and BMI composer Kris Bowers. (Middle row): BMI composers Kevin Smithers, Adam Schoenberg, Ryan Elder, Jongnic Bontemps, Jason Nesmith and Dara Taylor. (Back row): BMI’s Rose Oliver, David Low, Bandrika Studio owner Nathan Barr, music editor and engineer Chris Ledesma and concertmaster Mark Robertson at Nathan Barr’s Bandrika Studios in Tarzana, CA on August 24, 2019.
Pictured (L-R) during BMI’s 22nd annual Conducting Workshop are (front row): BMI composer Sage Lewis, BMI’s Anne Cecere and Philip Shrut, lead conductor Lucas Richman, BMI’s Doreen Ringer-Ross and BMI composer Kris Bowers. (Middle row): BMI composers Kevin Smithers, Adam Schoenberg, Ryan Elder, Jongnic Bontemps, Jason Nesmith and Dara Taylor. (Back row): BMI’s Rose Oliver, David Low, Bandrika Studio owner Nathan Barr, music editor and engineer Chris Ledesma and concertmaster Mark Robertson at Nathan Barr’s Bandrika Studios in Tarzana, CA on August 24, 2019. Photo: JC Olivera for BMI

BMI celebrated the 22nd annual Conducting Workshop for Visual Media Composers with a final session at Nathan Barr’s Bandrika Studios in Tarzana, California on August 24. The workshop gave eight rising composers the chance to hone their conducting skills under the direction of award-winning conductor and composer Lucas Richman. Over a two-week period, the selected composers participated in several training sessions focusing on proper beat patterns, tempo changes and cueing, as well as one-on-one conducting experience with Richman. At the finale, the selected composers conducted film cues by Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, live-to-picture, with a 32-piece orchestra.
 
This year’s class of participant composers included Jongnic Bontemps (United Skates), Kris Bowers (Green Book), Ryan Elder (Rick and Morty), Sage Lewis (Operator), Jason Nesmith (The Ellen DeGeneres Show), Adam Schoenberg (Graceland), Kevin Smithers (Monster Island) and Dara Taylor (Colewell).
 
“The BMI Conducting Workshop is a coveted experience for a reason. Lucas Richman is indescribably great at teaching you, supporting you, and pushing you out of your comfort zone. After two weeks of personalized instruction, technique study, and a bit of soul-searching, his students not only feel more comfortable on the podium, but also enhance their musicality, leadership skills, and connection with the music and musicians,” said Dara Taylor, BMI composer. “Thank you, BMI and Lucas, for an experience I’ll cherish and utilize for the rest of my musical life.” 
 
The series is produced by BMI’s Director Creative – Film, TV & Visual Media, Philip Shrut, in collaboration with Richman, who has helped curate BMI’s Conducting Workshop for more than two decades to propel hundreds of BMI composers to conduct their own scores.

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