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 [...]
Last night’s Michael Jackson panel event was a resounding success. The final round-up of speakers included: Daphne Brooks, Margo Jefferson, Spike Lee, Alan Light, Jody Rosen, Toure, Harry Weinger, and Armond White. Artistic Director Jason King moderated. Pictures and video are coming. While you wait, click HERE for today’s Washington Square News article on the [...]
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 [...]
We’ve always been proud as an NYU department to bear the name of our principal patron and Sony Music Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Clive Davis. This week we’re exponentially proud as Whitney Houston’s brand new I Look to You album – which Mr. Davis co-executive produced – hit the top spot on the U.S. Billboard [...]
Though 2008 Clive Davis Department alum Zach Berkman got voted off early this August from MTV’s reality competition show P. Diddy’s Starmaker, we look forward to bigger and better things from this talented singer-songwriter. Zach’s updates since leaving the show, via the MTV blog site: “I released a brand new five-song EP called As Far [...]
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 [...]
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10 Sep 2009As an undergraduate program teaching students about the art and business of creating and selling music, we’re admittedly intrigued by the possibilities for Timbaland’s application Beaterator, created for the Sony PSP in tandem with Rockstar Games, and due out in late September. According to news reports, the purpose of Beaterator is “music creation.” In that [...]
Clive Davis Department junior and NYU Reynolds scholar Genesis “Be” Briggs (a.k.a. Lo-Key) was featured in yesterday’s Washington Square News. The article discusses the Biloxi native’s recent collaboration with Tisch graduate / theater director/film director Andrea Wong for her music video “I Don’t Discriminate.” Looks like the video shoot was bubbling over with NYU alums. [...]
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.