About Me
As Vice President, Film/TV Relations for BMI, Doreen Ringer Ross oversees all activity from the Los Angeles based department serving film and television composers. Prior to BMI, Ringer Ross held artist development positions at A&M Records, ABC Records and MCA Records, and also worked in television production as a producer for a wide array of television programs.During her tenure at BMI, she has established many programs for composers, including the Sundance Institute’s Composer’s Lab, the BMI Film/TV Composers Conducting Workshop, and the Earle Hagen Film Scoring Workshop which ran for 10 years. She also oversees BMI’s film scoring scholarships at USC, UCLA and Berklee College of Music, and sponsorship involvement with the Sundance Film Festival, the IFP Rough Cut Lab and the IFP Film Market, the Los Angeles Film Festival, the SXSW Film Festival, and the Woodstock Film Festival.Ringer Ross works closely with BMI’s many celebrated film and television composers, including John Williams, Thomas Newman, Danny Elfman, Dave Grusin, John Barry, Earle Hagen, Mike Post, W.G. “Snuffy†Walden, David Newman, Trevor Rabin, Mark Mothersbaugh, Charlie Fox, Lalo Schifrin, The Sherman Brothers, Alan Menken, Randy Edelman, George Fenton, Gustavo Santaolalla, Mark Mancina, Teddy Shapiro, Don Davis, David Mansfield, BT, Charlie Clouser, Joseph Vitarelli, Teddy Castellucci, and the late Jerry Goldsmith, Basil Poledouris, and Michael Kamen. She is responsible for signing many other composers to BMI including Richard Gibbs, Harry Gregson-Williams, Rupert Gregson Williams, Terence Blanchard, Graeme Revell, Christopher Young, David Arnold, Stewart Copeland, Mychael Danna, Rolfe Kent, George S. Clinton, Alexandre Desplat, Aaron Zigman, Chris Lennertz, John Ottman, Ed Shearmur, Clint Mansell, John Frizzell, David Holmes, and Rachel Portman.Doreen Ringer Ross’ professional affiliations include: President of the Board, Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation; Music Advisory Board member at UCLA; Business Advisory Board of the Young Musicians Foundation; the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences; Advisory Board for the IFP Rough Cut Lab; the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; the Society of Composers and Lyricists; Film Independent, the California Copyright Conference; the National Academy of Songwriters; Women In Film; and AFI. .
