The special day provided both Film Scoring and Songwriting students an opportunity to talk to singer-songwriter Patty Larkin, as well as ASCAP staff, about current trends in the music industry. Two students also received tuition-based scholarships recognizing talent, professionalism, musical ability and career potential in film scoring and songwriting.

The Awards program provides recognition and cash awards to gifted young composers of Concert Music. This year, 28 composers between the ages of 8 to 30 years of age were selected from nearly 600 submissions.

"Songwriters: The Next Generation," a program of The ASCAP Foundation and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, showcased the work of four emerging songwriters and composers on March 14th - 15th on the Center's Millennium Stage.

The ASCAP Foundation Marvin Hamlisch Broadway Conductors Program, made possible by an unrestricted bequest by Hamlisch to The ASCAP Foundation, is a unique initiative aimed at aspiring musical theater conductors, by giving them hands-on experience with current Broadway professionals.

The ASCAP Foundation is pleased to announce that its annual East Coast Pop Songwriters Workshop has been renamed The ASCAP Foundation Jerry Ragovoy Songwriters Workshop, in memory of the great R&B, rock and pop songwriter who passed away in 2011.

Imagine hearing your music performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Nearly 100 teen girls experienced just that at WriteGirl’s 12th Annual Songwriting Workshop, supported by ASCAP and The ASCAP Foundation. The event brought together teens with pro songwriting mentors, including over a dozen prominent ASCAP members.

Established by The ASCAP Foundation in 2002 to encourage gifted jazz composers under the age of 30, the program awards recipients with cash prizes after a juried national competition.

The ASCAP Foundation honored multi-Grammy Award-winning artist Jason Mraz with The ASCAP Foundation Champion Award for his longtime leadership in such social causes as human equality, environmental protection, arts education and assisting people with spinal cord injuries.

The ASCAP Foundation Children Will Listen program, which is designed to introduce the American Musical Theater to youngsters who might otherwise not have the opportunity to experience it, went into high gear on Wednesday, October 17th.