Clive Davis School
Attend an intensive and immersive four-week summer program at the Tisch School of the Arts Clive Davis School of Recorded Music. Admissions standards are rigorous, as is the course itself:
The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music is the first of its kind to provide professional business and artistic training toward a B.F.A degree for aspiring creative entrepreneurs in the music industry.
During the four-week program summer program for high school students, you become entrepreneurs-in-training by studying how music is recorded, produced, and distributed to consumers. To complement the technical training based in the department’s audio workstation lab and world-class Dennis Riese Family Recording Studio, you will also learn how music companies are conceptualized, created, and grown as well as how new technologies are changing the way we hear music. Exposure to a wide range of current practices, as well as to those executives and artists changing the rules in the new digital era, are core components of this instruction.
Outside of class, excursions to recording facilities, music venues, record labels, festivals and more will immerse you in New York City – the hub of the global music industry. Master-class lectures by known innovators and visionaries on topics such as touring, artist management and digital media will be offered exclusively to participants of this program.
Ultimately, the summer high school program will have a strong focus on educating students on how to be responsible and informed makers, consumers, and distributors of popular music.
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How do I expand this narrative arc? If both music and history are in your narrative arc, consider building on this interest with one of the following:
Take an amazing summer course at U.C. Berkely entitled Music in American Cultures
If your school offers the ability to do an independent study or a National History Day project, consider doing a research project on famous musicians influences on culture or conflicts, or even one of these historical figures, using some material from in the letters you transcribe. Note: these letters are Primary Sources for historical research purposes which makes any such research project even more impressive!
Consider doing a community impact project that involves music or folk music, like doing a nostalgia playlist for seniors in a home. Music from your youth has proved to be of huge therapeutic benefit to seniors and a project like this could have a real impact. See our PDF for Executing a Community Impact Project, which has step by step instructions on how to execute a project like this.
HOT TIP: Many teens who are passionately interested in music and music theory want to attend a performing arts college. But many others are deeply involved in music but want a broader college education. This Tisch summer program is rigorous, and admissions standards are high. It could be a great choice for you if you’re keen to pursue a degree in business focusing on the music industry, or if you can weave it into a narrative arc that includes a strong focus on another social science area, like history. Math and music are also a beautiful combination!