The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
Tisch School of the Arts | New York University and
The Recording Academy®

present

The Music Business NOW:
How It Really Works and the People and Events
that Influence It

The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music | Tisch School of the Arts | New York University and The Recording Academy® join together to connect the best and the brightest executives in our business with the next generation of artists, managers, and marketers of recorded and live entertainment. The digital age has forced massive changes on the entertainment industry; how do you develop, distribute, and market artists and their work in this brave new world? This in-depth master class series provides perspectives on this and other vital questions from some of the most influential people in the business, as they directly address new artists’ development; branding and marketing; building and maintaining a fan base; new strategies for the Internet and wireless technologies; online and digital marketing; touring and merchandising; retail sales; music publishing; film, television, and games; radio and video promotion; and much more. It’s a basic tenet that personal relationships are crucial in any business, and this is especially true in the music industry, which is vastly influenced by a handful of key executives.

This master class series features an extensive list of guest speakers, panelists, and lecturers, enabling students to meet and interact with major players in the business. Courses will be hosted in the private, 200+-seat Ray Kurtzman Theater at Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles, CA.

DETAILS ON THE MASTER CLASS SERIES:

WHEN IS IT - Wednesdays, 7PM-10PM – from January 25, 2012 to April 25, 2012

WHERE IS IT - hosted in the private 200+ seat Ray Kurtzman Theater at Creative Artists Agency, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 90067

WHO IS ELIGIBLE - This master class series is not for college credit; therefore, it is open to anyone with an interest in the music industry!

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST - $680 (*Current members in good standing with The Recording Academy® are eligible for a $100 discount on the registration fee. All Academy members claiming the promo discount will need the code provided by The Recording Academy®.)

PRIORITY REGISTRATION DEADLINE - January 18; rolling registration after January 18, pending space available

SCHEDULED GUEST SPEAKERS:

• Irving Azoff, CEO, TicketMaster/LiveNation, manager of Christina Aguilera, Van Halen, The Eagles
• Michael Rapino, CEO, LiveNation
• John Branca, Senior Partner, Ziffren Brittenham & Branca, LLP, Co-Executor of the Estate of Michael Jackson
• Rob Cavallo, CEO, Warner Bros Records, Chief Creative Officer, Warner Music Group
• Steve Berman, Vice Chairman and President of Sales and Marketing, Interscope Records
• Jody Gerson, Co-President, Sony/ATV Music
• Jon Platt, President, Urban Music, EMI Music Publishing
• Cameron Strang, President and CEO, Warner/Chappell Music
• Tom Sturges, Executive VP, Creative, Universal Music Publishing Group
• Gregg Sowders, Senior Vice President, Warner/Chappell Music
• Kevin Weatherly, Program Director, KROQ and JACK-FM
• Neil Portnow: President/CEO, The Recording Academy (GRAMMY Awards)
• Nic Harcourt, Editor at Large, Music & Culture, Los Angeles Times
• Rob Light, Managing Partner/Head of Music, CAA
• Amy Doyle, Senior Vice President, Music and Talent, MTV
• Mark Williams, Senior Vice President, A&R, Columbia Records
• Ian Montone, CEO, Monotone Management (Jack White, The Shins, Foster The People, Cold War Kids)
• Jim Guerinot, President, Rebel Waltz Management (No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, Social Distortion, The Offspring, Trent Reznor, Hot Hot Heat)
• Steve Schnur, Worldwide Head Of Music, EA Videogames
• Mark Shimmel, Head of Music, Turner Networks, Music Consultant, Kennedy Center Honors

…and more to be confirmed!

INSTRUCTORS:

JEFFREY JAMPOL, President of JAM, Inc., manages rock legends The Doors, and the Estates of Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Peter Tosh, and Rick James. Mr. Jampol won the 2011 GRAMMY® Award, along with Dick Wolf, as a producer of The Doors’ theatrical documentary narrated by Johnny Depp, When You’re Strange – A Film About The Doors, and was nominated for an Emmy® Award in 2010. Mr. Jampol also serves as a consultant to the Estate of Michael Jackson, and counsels managers, publishers, labels, and artists’ estates on catalog, publishing, licensing, branding, merchandise and marketing. He is a voting member of The Recording Academy®, where he sat on the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles Chapter from 2007-09, and is also a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences®.

LENNY BEER, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of HITS Magazine and HitsDailyDouble.com, the music industry’s most widely read trade publication. He’s also a co-founder and principal of The MGMT Company, which guides the careers of 30 Seconds to Mars, Bush, Andrew W.K., The Airborne Toxic Event, The Bravery and other acts. The Bronx native received his BA from Carnegie-Mellon and his MBA from NYU. Lenny has also served as producer on several theatrical productions, notably Suzan Lori-Parks’ Pulitzer-winning, Tony®-nominated Topdog/Underdog, starring Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def, and is an active member of The Recording Academy^®. An avid golfer, he lives in Los Angeles with his wife, noted producer Suzi Dietz; they have two children and two grandsons.

IAN ROGERS, CEO, Topspin, has been building digital media applications since 1992.  Prior to Topspin, Rogers was VP Music and Video for Yahoo, President/CTO of Mediacode, creators of an early “music in the cloud” service, President of New Media for the Beastie Boys and their Grand Royal label, and part of the Nullsoft team who created Winamp, SHOUTcast, and Gnutella.

BRUCE RESNIKOFF, President & CEO, Universal Music Enterprises. the U.S. catalog and ancillary marketing entity for the Universal Music Group, oversees integrated marketing campaigns, direct to consumer programs, brand management initiatives and strategic partnerships. He is also one of the founders of NOW! That’s What I Call Music, the most successful U.S. music compilation series in history. Resnikoff is a member of the Executive Board of the City Of Hope’s Music & Entertainment Division and is on the Board of Directors of the Rhythm & Blues Foundation.

DAVID DORN, Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Digital Strategy, Rhino Entertainment (a Warner Music Group Company). Mr. Dorn oversees the digital future of Rhino’s vast and historically rich catalog of recorded masters (Aretha Franklin, Ramones, Frank Sinatra, and Led Zeppelin, among numerous others). He also oversees Rhino’s International business and is a voting member of The Recording Academy^®.

MUSIC BUSINESS NOW – MORE INFORMATION!

WEB | http://clivedavisinst.tisch.nyu.edu/object/musicbusinessnow

FACEBOOK | http://www.facebook.com/musicbiznow

TWITTER | http://twitter.com/musicbiznow

REGISTER NOW | https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9363745

EMAIL | musicbusinessnow@nyu.edu

For Immediate Release:
DATE: 09-21-2011
Contact: Richard Pierce
212.998.6796
richard.pierce@nyu.edu

The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts has announced that producer, songwriter, and performer Ryan Leslie has been named its first Artist in Residence.  The appointment, which begins immediately, is for the 2011/12 academic year and supports and enhances the emphasis the Recorded Music Institute places on teaching students the skills of creative entrepreneurship for the music industry.

“Ryan Leslie is the epitome of the creative entrepreneur and the holistic attitude we believe so firmly in here at the Institute,” said Jeffrey Rabhan, chair of The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.  “His entire professional career has been a perfect balance between artistry and business acumen.  We think someone of Ryan Leslie’s intelligence, talent, and entrepreneurial savvy will add a dynamic new dimension to the Clive Davis Institute and we’re excited to have him join the program.”

The Artist-in-Residence provides students with direct access to one of the music industry’s most successful entrepreneurs, filling the program’s experiential education mandate.  In this role, the Artist-in-Residence will guide students through a variety of portals, including one-on-one sessions, group lectures, songwriting critiques, and mentoring.

Born in 1978, Leslie began making music as a teenager after teaching himself to play the piano.  When he was 14, he scored a perfect 1600 on his SATs and eventually enrolled at Harvard, graduating at the age of 19 with a degree in Government.  By 2003, he established a foothold in the music industry and later that year also produced a debut album, entitled Just Right. While never being released, the album did produce two singles: The Way That U Move Girl and Used 2 Be. By the end of 2005, he wrote and/or produced tracks for Beyoncé, Britney Spears, and New Edition.   In 2006, he wrote and produced the singer Cassie’s Me&U album, a number one R&B single that also reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100.  Cassie’s subsequent album, produced almost entirely by Leslie, narrowly missed the top of both the Billboard 200 and R&B/hip-hop albums charts.

Leslie went back to the studio to record another debut album and the lead single, Diamond Girl, was released as a single.  The successive singles Addiction and How It Was Supposed to Be also set the stage for his self-titled album, which was finally released in February 2009.  Nine months later, Leslie followed up his debut album with the Grammy-nominated album Transition, inspired by a secret summertime fling. Currently preparing his new body of work, a rap album entitled Les Is More, he has also found time to produce and guest appear on records with Kanye West, Lloyd Banks, Fabolous and Rick Ross.

The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music is the first of its kind to provide professional business and artistic training toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The undergraduate program is designed to provide professional training for students who aspire to succeed as creative entrepreneurs in the music industry.  Since it opened its doors in 2003, the program has been a leader in training aspiring music entrepreneurs.  It has been on the cutting edge of music education, offering innovative courses like “The History of Def Jam,” “Emerging Music Trends,” and “Branding.”  The program bears the name of its chief patron and advisor, Clive Davis.

Please contact Tisch-Special Programs for more information.
721 Broadway, 12th Floor
212.998.1500
http://clivedavisinst.tisch.nyu.edu/object/remujamaica.html

ENROLL NOW FOR SUMMER 2011 RECORDED MUSIC COURSES!

Summer 2011 Recorded Music courses are open to any H.S. graduate and run from May 23 – August 12. Find 3-week courses and 6-week courses…courses for college credit and not for college credit…and lots of options to fit your busy schedule!

This summer, we’re offering courses in:

MUSIC PRODUCTION

Beats & Beatmaking
Fundamentals of Audio Workstations I
Fundamentals of Audio Workstations II
Producing Music with Software & MIDI I
Producing Music with Software & MIDI II
Practical Recording Techniques I
Practical Recording Techniques II
Producing with Bob Power: A Masterclass
The Art of Mixing with Kevin Killen: A Masterclass
DJ History, Culture, and Technique with DJs Rekha and Shiftee

MUSIC BUSINESS

Internship/Career Skills for the Music Entrepreneur
Social Entrepreneurship in the Music Industry

MUSIC HISTORY & CRITICISM

Topics in Recorded Music: Punk

MUSICIANSHIP & PERFORMANCE

Image Development for the Performing Artist

For more information, call 212.998.1500.

Get a free download of “Anarchy,” the first single release from Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music alumnus Sam Belkin’s band Nobody Can Dance.

If you prefer to buy your music, the song is available on most digital music stores.  Enter “Nobody Can Dance” in the search bar of a store like iTunes or Amazon.com and choose from 17 different tracks, many of which have titles we can’t repeat here.

Nobody Can Dance plays National Underground for FREE on Sept 29 and for M.E.A.N.Y. Fest 2009 on Oct. 2. To stream music or find out about other upcoming shows, visit Nobody Can Dance on the web.

Sam is in the suit and tie on the left.

In May 2008, Dan Chertoff was getting ready to graduate from The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. He’d also just started a new A&R gig at Canvasback, a record label headed by industry vet Steve Ralbovsky as a joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment.

Now Canvasback has jumped the Sony ship and moved over to Atlantic Records. Dan has become the first A&R exec on the label.

Dan is working on his first project: Fanfarlo, a multi-instrumentalist UK based folk/ chamber pop band with an eclectic Euro background: lead singer Simon Balthazar is Swedish and the band’s mandolin/violinist is Belgium. Fanfarlo’s debut, Reservoir, was produced by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol) and drops October 13th on Atlantic Records. The band’s spent time on the road with Snow Patrol.

Ever the multi-tasker, Dan is also a part of management venture Beekeeper Artists (also a joint venture with Atlantic), helping oversee the career Warner Bros. Records singer-songwriter Rachel Yamagata.

Fanfarlo graces the Bowery Ballroom stage tonight and The Bell House in Brooklyn tomorrow. Here’s the video for lead single “The Walls are Coming Down.“

Princeton @ Union Hall from Patrick Duffy on Vimeo.

Rock band Princeton, managed by Clive Davis Department alumnus Seth Kallen, received a positive review for their Sept. 9th Union Hall gig in the New York Times: reviewer Jon Carmanica called their upcoming album Cocoon of Love “harming and frisky, with touches of the Cure and Leonard Cohen and even some shoegaze pop. And onstage, the band was improbably tender, even a bit naïve, undercutting its lyrical hauteur at almost every turn.”

Full article is here.