Lucas Richman to Lead 2015 BMI Conducting Workshop

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), the global leader in music rights management, will continue to celebrate and nurture the art of conducting at the organization's annual six-day conducting workshop series taught by BMI Classic Contribution Award winner, conductor and composer Lucas Richman.

Each year, an elite group of BMI composers are selected to participate in the workshop, where they will hone the craft of conducting, from fundamentals and multi-meter scores, to conducting to picture with a 32-piece orchestra.

Classes will be taught at BMI's office, the Professional Musicians Union Local 47, with the finale taking place at a Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage.

In 2007, BMI honored Lucas Richman with the Classic Contribution Award, recognizing his service in leading BMI's celebrated conducting workshop since its inception. A BMI composer and conductor, Richman has served as Music Director for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra since 2010 and recently completed a 12-year tenure as Music Director for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra from 2003-2015. A Grammy-winning conductor, Richman is a leading expert in conducting and composing, having fashioned an outstanding career as a conductor with numerous orchestras in the U.S.

He has also proved himself an invaluable collaborator for numerous film composers, serving as conductor for movies including the Academy Award-nominated The Village, As Good As It Gets, Face/Off, Seven, Breakdown, Anastasia, The Manchurian Candidate and Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. In 2010, John Williams invited Richman to lead the three-month North American summer tour of Star Wars in Concert.

This year's exemplary group of students will include working film and television composers Joseph DeBeasi (American Sniper); John Kaefer (Sequestered); Michael Kramer (Ninjago); Heather McIntosh (Manson Family Vacation); Josh Moshier (Running Buddies); Joel Richard (Quantico, John Wick); Bryan Senti (Experimenter, How To Dance In Ohio) and Andrew Morgan Smith (Status Unknown.)

The class is coordinated by Ray Yee, BMI Assistant Vice President, Film/TV Relations; Philip Shrut, BMI Associate Director, Film/TV Relations, along with BMI's Film/TV staff.

Past participants in the celebrated workshop include composers Chris Bacon, Nathan Barr, Tyler Bates, Adam Berry, Bill Brown, David Buckley, Stewart Copeland, Richard Gibbs, Laura Karpman, Rolfe Kent, Kevin Kiner, Chris Lennertz, Cliff Martinez, Rick Marvin, Lolita Ritmanis, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, David Schwartz, Christopher Tin, Mervyn Warren, and Alex Wurman.

Celebrating 75 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is a global leader in music rights management, serving as an advocate for the value of music. BMI represents the public performance rights in more than 8.5 million musical works created and owned by more than 650,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public. In 1939, BMI created a groundbreaking open-door policy becoming the only performing rights organization to welcome and represent the creators of blues, jazz, country, and American roots music. Today, the musical compositions in BMI's repertoire, from chart toppers to perennial favorites, span all genres of music and are consistently among the most-performed hits of the year. For additional information and the latest BMI news, visit www.bmi.com, follow us on Twitter @BMI or stay connected through Broadcast Music, Inc.'s Facebook page.