Luke Haaksma ’21 Receives a BMI Composer Award for Young Composers

The BMI Foundation has named Luke Haaksma ’21 as a recipient of the 72nd BMI Composer Awards, an annual competition open to young composers engaged in the creation of classical music. Haaksma, a composer, filmmaker, and hammered dulcimerist, studied composition at Bard College Conservatory of Music with Joan Tower and George Tsontakis, and is now completing graduate study at Yale School of Music studying with Katherine Balch. His work often focuses on non-human states of consciousness, finding influences in themes of anthropomorphization, murder ballads, and folk-horror, and he has received awards and recognition from organizations such as the Young Concert Artists and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The BMI Foundation is a nonprofit supporting the creation, performance, and study of music through awards, scholarships, grants, and commissions, and its Composer Awards competition has a prestigious history of discovering and encouraging many of today’s most prominent and talented young composers. 

Post Date: 06-18-2024