Michael Torke News

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. All entries must be postmarked no later than Friday, February 15, 2008.

Operas by composers such as Michael John LaChiusa and Adam Guettel, as well as opera productions helmed by high-profile directors like Mary Zimmerman, are slated to debut at the Met at the end of this decade and the beginning of next

THE 2005 NEW YORK MUSIC THEATER FESTIVAL, DENNIS GRIMALDI PRODUCTIONS and NICK CAVARRA are pleased to announce the New York premiere of the new musical 'RICHARD CORY,' directed by JAMES BRENNAN.

Mark Campbell's Songs from an Unmade Bed will end its New York Theatre Workshop run early on June 19th