Starting February 2010, The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music will be inaugurating a new intensive 12-week workshop for high school students, called Future Music Moguls. This innovative new workshop program is designed to introduce talented high school juniors to all aspects of the contemporary music business – including songwriting, production, marketing, promotion, publicity, branding [...]
Clive Davis Department student/dexterous pianist David McTiernan (pictured above, in the red striped flannel shirt on the far right) will take the helm as band director and arranger for a darkly comic Off-Broadway indie-rock musical called Open the Dark Door, playing at the upcoming New York Musical Theater Festival’s Next Link Series. The plot sounds [...]
NYU’s The Gentlemen of Quality present Jay-Z’s new RocNation artist J. Cole this Saturday at the Kimmel Center at 9 pm. Clive Davis Department senior Kaleb Rollins serves as PR chair for The Gentlemen of Quality. Enterprising production-management venture Grand Staff (Kaleb co-helms it along with some of his fellow Clive Davis Department students) provides [...]
The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music Tisch School of the Arts, New York University The Record Label Series / Motown U presents REMEMBERING MICHAEL JACKSON An exciting panel of scholars, writers, artists and executives considers the legacy of one of pop music’s greatest icons. With: SPIKE LEE, award-winning filmmaker, producer and author GREG TATE, [...]
Buzzworthy Los Angeles band Princeton is releasing their debut record Cocoon of Love this fall on Kanine Records. The band is managed by 2009 Clive Davis Department alumni Seth Kallen for his company This Side Up Sounds. Princeton has recently gotten praise from influential blogs such as Pitchfork, Stereogum, and NY Mag, and will be [...]
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8 Sep 2009Well, The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music is finally up and running…. We started blogging so we can let you know on a more regular basis what we’re up to – and to keep you informed about the many irons that our students and alumni have on the fire. Stay tuned for announcements about [...]
The Clive Davis Institute is an innovative undergraduate leadership training program for aspiring creative music entrepreneurs, housed at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Students who dream of becoming leading executives, recording artists, record producers and music journalists come to us to learn the art and business of creating and selling hit music.