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Dan Visconti Wins Boudleaux Bryant Commission

Dan Visconti has been named the winner of the BMI Foundation‘s 2008 Boudleaux Bryant Commission Award. Visconti was selected for the honor from a pool of recent winners of the BMI Student Composer Awards by members of the Janaki String Trio, who will premiere the work, "Lawless Airs," at Symphony Space in New York City on…


From News, posted 5.05.08

2008 BMI Student Composer Awards Competition Opens

The opening of the 56th annual BMI Student Composer Awards competition was announced today by BMI President and CEO Del Bryant and BMI Foundation President Ralph N. Jackson. The competition, which is co-sponsored by BMI and the BMI Foundation, will award $20,000 in prizes. Student composers under the age of 28 who are citizens of the Western Hemisphere (North, South and Central America, the Caribbean island nations…


From News, posted 11.08.07

2007 Student Composer Awards Competition Opens

The 55th annual BMI Student Composer Awards competition will award $20,000 to young composers, it was announced today by BMI President and CEO Del Bryant and BMI Foundation President Ralph N. Jackson. The postmark deadline for entering the 2007 competition, which is co-sponsored by BMI and the BMI Foundation, is Saturday, February 3, 2007. The Student Composer Awards were established in 1951 to encourage young…


From News, posted 11.14.06

Minnesota Orchestra Program Helps Educate Young Composers

The internationally acclaimed Minnesota Orchestra is widely known for its artistic excellence, but it's the orchestra's unique program devoted to young composers that has garnered attention recently. Most notably, the program, led by BMI Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis, was featured as a radio documentary on Minnesota Public Radio's "All Things Considered." Apparently the only program of its kind offered in the United States, the…


From News, posted 6.25.06

54th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards Competition Opens

The 54th annual BMI Student Composer Awards competition will award $20,000 to young composers, it was announced by BMI President and CEO Del Bryant and BMI Foundation President Ralph N. Jackson. Co-sponsored by BMI and the BMI Foundation, the Student Composer Awards were established in 1951 to encourage young composers in the creation of serious music and, through cash prizes, to aid in continuing their musical education.…


From News, posted 11.02.05

53rd Annual BMI Student Composer Awards Competition Opens

The 53rd annual BMI Student Composer Awards competition will award $20,000 to young composers, BMI President and CEO Del Bryant announced today. The postmark deadline for entering the 2005 competition, co-sponsored by BMI and the BMI Foundation, is Friday, February 11, 2005. The BMI Student Composer Awards were established in 1951 to encourage young composers in the creation…


From News, posted 11.22.04

52nd Annual BMI Student Composer Awards Competition Opens

The 52nd annual BMI Student Composer Award competition will award $20,000 to young composers, it was announced by BMI President and CEO, Frances W. Preston. The postmark deadline for entering the 2004 competition, which is co-sponsored by the BMI Foundation, is Friday, February 6, 2004. The BMI Student Composer Awards were established in 1951 to encourage young composers in the creation…


From News, posted 11.10.03

Student Composers Honored at 50th Annual Awards Presentation

Nine young composers, ranging in age from 14 to 26, have been named winners in the 50th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards. Frances W. Preston, BMI President and CEO, announced the decisions of the jury and presented the awards at a reception held June 7 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Milton Babbitt, Chairman of the awards, and Ralph N. Jackson, Director of the awards, joined in…


From News, posted 6.09.02

BMI Classical Composer Kernis Wins Prestigious Award

Hearty congratulations to BMI classical composer Aaron Jay Kernis, who was named the winner of the 2002 Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition. The $200,000 award, presented annually by the University of Louisville and named for alumnus and philanthropist H. Charles Grawemeyer, was given for Kernis's "Colored Field" (Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra).


From News, posted 12.10.01

BMI Student Composer Awards: 1998

46TH ANNUAL BMI STUDENT COMPOSER AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED; PULITZER PRIZE WINNER AARON JAY KERNIS AWARDED BMI SPECIAL CITATION New York, New York, June 9, 1998—Eight young composers, ranging in age from 18 to 26, have been named winners in the 46th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards. Ralph N. Jackson, Assistant Vice President, BMI Classical Music Relations and Director of the Student Composer Awards, and Awards Chairman Milton Babbitt announced the…


From News, posted 1.01.98

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