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Oct 02, 2009 Shown at the NBC studios after a taping of The Jay Leno Show are BMI’s Michael Crepezzi and Linda Livingston, the show’s longtime band leader and BMI composer Kevin Eubanks, and BMI’s Alison Smith. View Photo

Sep 24, 2009 Members of New York’s film and TV music community were treated to a special luncheon sponsored by BMI on September 18 at the Chinatown Brasserie. The luncheon featured guest speakers Audrey Kitagawa, advisor to the World Federation of the United Nations Associations; and Jonathan Granoff, author, attorney and President of the Global Security Institute. All of the attendees gathered for… View Photo

Sep 23, 2009 BMI sponsored a panel discussion, “Making Your First Feature: Music Makes the Movie,” at the annual IFP Filmmaker Conference, September 19 in New York. Pictured at the panel are filmmaker Bill Plympton, Cherry Lane Music’s Brooke Primont, composer David Shire, BMI’s Doreen Ringer Ross, and music supervisor Randall Poster. View Photo

Sep 23, 2009 Champagne flutes clinked on September 17 in celebration of the first session of the BMI-sponsored Composing for the Screen 2009: A Film Scoring Mentorship Program, which was held at BMI’s New York office. The program selects a small number of emerging film composers and provides a series of workshops, followed by year-round continued consultation and development. Pictured are (back row)… View Photo

Sep 16, 2009 During the BMI/SCL co-hosted reception honoring 2009 Emmy music categories nominees, BMI’s Anne Cecere (left) and Ray Yee (right) encourage composer William Ross, who went on to win a statuette in the Outstanding Musical Direction field for Streisand: The Concert. View Photo

Sep 16, 2009 The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) and BMI co-hosted their annual primetime Emmy awards reception to honor the nominees in the music categories. Held September 9 at the Television Academy in North Hollywood, the event welcomed nominees and industry executives, including BMI’s Ray Yee and Anne Cecere. The 2009 Creative Arts Primetime Emmy winners were announced Saturday, September 12.… View Photo

Aug 25, 2009 Award-winning composer and Lab advisor David Newman, Lab advisor Doreen Ringer Ross and Sundance Institute Film Music Program Director Peter Golub pause for a photo during the 2009 Sundance Composers Lab. The trio is standing in front of a shot that captures Newman conducting at the Lab in the 1980s. The 2009 session marks Newman’s first return to the Lab… View Photo

Aug 25, 2009 Pictured during the 2009 Sundance Composers Lab are (front row) Sundance Institute Film Music Program Director Peter Golub, with Fellows Madga Giannikou, Chanda Dancy and Lili Haydn; (back row) advisor Edward Shearmur, Fellows Christopher Lord and Kim Carroll, advisor and BMI Vice President, Film/TV Relations Doreen Ringer Ross; advisor William “Vasi” Vangelos, and Fellow David Poe. View Photo

Aug 25, 2009 Pictured at the 2009 Sundance Composers Lab are (front row) Fellow Kim Carroll, advisors Tracy McKnight and Doreen Ringer Ross, with Fellow Magda Giannikou; (back row) Sundance Institute Film Music Program Director Peter Golub, with Fellows Lili Haydn, David Poe, Christopher Lord and Chanda Dancy. For two weeks in late July at the Sundance Resort in Utah, Fellows collaborated with… View Photo

Aug 12, 2009 BMI’s Conducting for the Film Composer Workshop class of 2009 pauses for a photo. Pictured (l-r) are (front row) Marco D’Ambrosio, Anton Sanko, iZLER, Lucas Richman, Rob Simonsen and Philip White; (back row) editor Chris Ledesma, contractor David Low, David Buckley, Vivek Maddala, Rebecca Contreras, BMI’s Doreen Ringer Ross and Philip Shrut, Tim Jones and BMI’s Ray Yee. View Photo