Dedicated to encouraging the creation, performance and study of music.

Our Programs

The final selections for these programs are entrusted to panels made up of some of the world’s most distinguished artists and musicians.

• BMI Founders Award for Radio Broadcasting

• BMI Future Jazz Master Scholarship

• BMI Student Composer Awards

• Carlos Surinach Commissions

• Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize

• Curtis Mayfield Scholarship

• David N. Baker Jazz Composition Scholarship

• Ellen Schwartz Award

• Evelyn Buckstein Scholarship

• Jean Banks Award

• Jeffery Cotton Awards

• Jerry Bock Musical Theatre Award

• Jerry Harrington Musical Theatre Awards

• John Lennon Scholarships

• Lionel Newman Conducting Scholarship

• Nashville Songwriting Scholarship

• peermusic Latin Scholarship

• Pete Carpenter Fellowship

• Theodora Zavin Scholarship

• Woody Guthrie Fellowship