Programs

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.

By Application

• BMI Founders Internship for Radio Broadcasting

  for students of broadcast radio

• BMI Future Jazz Master Scholarship

  for young jazz performers

• BMI Student Composer Awards

  for young composers of classical music

• John Lennon Scholarships

  for songwriters and composers

• Nashville Songwriting Scholarship

  for young songwriters of country music

• peermusic Latin Scholarship

  for songwriters and composers of Latin music

• Pete Carpenter Fellowship

  for aspiring film, television, and video game composers

• Woody Guthrie Fellowship

  for researchers of Woody Guthrie’s life and legacy

By Invitation Only

Awards & Prizes

• Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize

  for new work from the Jazz Composers Workshop

• Ellen Schwartz Award

  For Outstanding Literary Merit in Lyric Writing

• Jean Banks Award

  for new Musical Theater writers

• Jeffery Cotton Awards

  for presenting organizations

• Jerry Bock Musical Theatre Award

  for Excellence in Musical Theatre

• Jerry Harrington Musical Theatre Awards

  for creative achievement in Musical Theatre

Scholarships

• Curtis Mayfield Scholarship

  to a graduating senior at Chicago High School for the Arts

• David N. Baker Jazz Composition Scholarship

  for jazz composers at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

• Evelyn Buckstein Scholarship

  a year's tuition to attend the City College of New York

• Lionel Newman Conducting Fellowship

  for young classical conductors

• Theodora Zavin Scholarship

  to a graduating senior musician at LaGuardia

Commissions & Grants

• 2020 Covid Relief Cultural Impact Fund

• Carlos Surinach Commissions

  funds the creation of new works

• New Music Grants Program

  for nonprofits furthering creation, performance & study of contemporary music.