Cy Coleman Award

The ASCAP Foundation Cy Coleman Award was established by Shelby Coleman in memory of her husband. Cy Coleman was a long time member of the ASCAP Board of Directors and a member of The ASCAP Foundation Board. Coleman wrote many pop standards including "Witchcraft," "The Best Is Yet To Come," and "Why Try To Change Me Now" as well as hit Broadway scores such as Wildcat ("Hey Look Me Over"), Little Me ("Real Live Girl"), Sweet Charity ("Big Spender"), Seesaw ("It's Not Where You Start"), I Love My Wife , On The Twentieth Century , Barnum ("The Colors of My Life"), Welcome To The Club , City of Angels , T he Will Rogers Follies , and The Life . Mr. Coleman has been honored with 13 Grammy nominations (2 wins), 12 Tony nominations (3 wins), 5 Emmy nominations (3 wins) and an Academy Award nomination. He is also a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame and the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.

The award will be presented annually to support a student enrolled in a music business course and will rotate among New York University, Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. The inaugural recipient was Molly Gachignard from NYU.