Aniket Singh Solanki is the recipient of the Dimitri Tiomkin Endowed Fund for Student Assistantships from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC) for the academic year, 2023-2024.
READ (USC press release pdf): Tiomkin – Solanki, Aniket Singh
A third-year graduate student in Film and Television Production, Solanki comes to USC from Western India and is the fifteenth student to receive the prestigious award.
The Tiomkin Fund provides scholarships in the form of financial support to graduate student assistants in the USC School of Cinematic Arts to support those advanced courses dedicated to music scoring, editing, and sound.
For the Dimitri Tiomkin Endowed Fund for Student Assistantships preference is given to full-time graduate students who are selected as student assistants. Selected students must be making regular progress toward their degrees according to the rules and regulations of the school’s established programs, with an overall grade point average of 3.0 or better. Funds provide financial assistance including a tuition stipend and wages.
Made possible by an endowment from Volta Music Corp., a publisher member of ASCAP, the company Tiomkin incorporated in 1957 to control his music publishing rights and to receive income, including royalties, from his film and television music.
Helping students into the future of cinema in sound and music.
FURTHER READING : 2023 Tiomkin Fund recipients
Dimitri Tiomkin works on the background musical score for The Road Back.