Posts Tagged ‘faculty

Henry M. Gaffney, a prolific songwriter and music professor, died on Sunday, May 23, 2010, at his home in Sharon, Connecticut after a struggle with lung cancer. He was 61.  He was the beloved and proud father of 23-year-old twins, Julian and Devin Gaffney, and husband to his best friend and wife of 39 years, [...]

We’re deeply saddened by the news that our beloved Adjunct Associate Professor Henry Gaffney passed away yesterday (May 23rd). Henry began his career in music as a solo recording artist, releasing albums on both RCA  (“Waiting For A Wind”), and United Artists Records (“On Again Off Again”).  He was a staff writer for Koppleman / [...]

This summer 2010, The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU will inaugurate an innovative MASTERCLASS SERIES in music production, business and image-making, as part of our regular series of summer course offerings. Students from all walks of life will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come to NYU and [...]

Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music instructor Vivien Goldman, who’s blessed us with innovative classes on Punk music, Reggae, and the history of Island Records, wrote a feature on multicultural British rock trio The Noisettes in today’s New York Times. You can read it here. Vivien (pictured above on the left teaching a class, with [...]

  It’s not often we’re discussed in the context of fashion and glamor, but this summer The Clive Davis Department was glad to get a shout out in August’s fifth anniversary issue of T, the New York Times’ style magazine, distributed on Sundays. The subject was legendary fashion stylist/costume designer Arianne Phillips (pictured above), who [...]

With record sales in seemingly never-ending freefall and artist tours and music festivals breaking records, you can’t afford to sleep on the live event industry. Kobi Wu-Pasmore, the former director of special events at Cornerstone Promotions (where she played a big role in developing the stellar Pharrell-Santigold-Julian Casablancas Converse campaign) and the former manager for [...]

Composer, music supervisor and sound designer Michael Whalen has scored over 500 television scores, feature and short films, including the opening theme to the ABC News morning show Good Morning America, music for The Oprah Winfrey Show, Martha Stewart and the news magazine Inside Edition. He’s been nominated for eight Emmys® and picked up two, [...]


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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.

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What I'm Doing...

  • Menya's about to open for RCA band 2am Club at Blender Theater 2 nite...exciting 2010-04-21
  • Kevin Liles, Mick Rock, DJ Rekha, Kevin Killen, Mocean Worker...check out all our summer masterclasses: http://tinyurl.com/y69ysms 2010-04-21
  • Steve Lillywhite did an amazing job lecturing for us last week. Thanks Steve! http://tinyurl.com/y2opjox 2010-04-21
  • our new Future Music Moguls workshop is underway...priority deadline to apply is October 16...see http://www.futuremusicmoguls.com 2009-09-24
  • thanks to all for a great Michael Jackson panel discussion last night....video will be coming soon for those who couldn't make it 2009-09-18
  • thursdays discussion panel on michael jackson panel is sold out....looks like michael fever hasnt died down yet 2009-09-16
  • exciting weekend....NYU Open House is Saturday...The VMAs on Sunday....and then Oprah with Whitney Houston on Monday...yes! 2009-09-11
  • theme of the day, should you walk into our lobby, is 80s pop classics....go Belinda Carlisle! 2009-09-08
  • we're up and blogging...and twittering now! 2009-09-08
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