Future Music Moguls - NEW!!

The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music is proud to offer Future Music Moguls, an intensive 12-week workshop designed to introduce talented high school juniors to all aspects of the contemporary music business, with a special focus on developing entrepreneurial skills. In learning about music entrepreneurship, students receive a basic introduction to issues in financial literacy that can be applied to a wide range of future activities.

Free to participants, the program is held at the department's state-of-the-art facilities on Saturdays starting in February and ending in May. Applicants, typically in the middle of their junior year, hail from high schools in the five boroughs of New York City as well as from Westchester County, Long Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Approximately 12-15 students will be selected to attend the workshop.

Prominent Clive Davis Department faculty will teach students:

• The creative process behind writing and recording hit songs
• What it means to be successful in today's music business
• An introduction to marketing, promotion, touring, publicity, branding and other elements of the business
• How the Internet and mobile devices are affecting the delivery and distribution of music
• To begin to develop leadership skills
  

Application Information

Priority application deadline is Friday, October 16, 2009.

Applicants must demonstrate:

• Strong previous interest and participation in music or the music industry or business or leadership
• Academic achievement
• Ability to work as a team member 
• Willingness to collaborate
• A firm commitment to completing the entire workshop, which will be held on twelve Saturdays from February through May
• Twelve to fifteen students will be selected after review of application materials and an interview
  

Applications are currently being reviewed. Selected students will be invited by December 15, 2009 to come to NYU-Tisch for interviews, which will occur on Saturday, January 9, 2010.

*The first class will meet on Saturday, February 6, 2010. There will be a final Future Music Moguls screening/event on Saturday, May 15, 2010.

All teacher recommendations should be clearly identified with two things:

• the applicant's intended H.S. program (i.e. "Future Music Moguls")
  
• the applicant's Future Music Moguls ID number, which will be assigned when the applicant begins the online application process
  

All teacher recommendations can either be emailed to Patricia Decker at pad3@nyu.edu or mailed to:
Patricia Decker, Dir. of Recruitment
NYU-Tisch School of the Arts
Attn: FMM Teacher Recommendation
721 Broadway, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10003