Entrepreneurship in Music

The Institute for Music Leadership (IML) received a major part of a $3.5 million grant to the University of Rochester from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to support entrepreneurship education. The IML's focus in "entrepreneurship in music," is helping students learn how to turn promising ideas into enterprises that create value.

News

eTheory Online Theory Course - Register Now!

Registration is now open for the eTheory online theory course. more

E-Musicians Unite!

Melissa Snoza

As the challenge of creating
a career in music grows,
Eastman alumni become
ever more entrepreneurial...

Read the full article here.

 

The College Music Society's Inaugural CMS Summit

"The College Music Society announces the inaugural CMS Summit, January 15-17, 2010 at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music in Nashville, Tennessee. This will be a joint Music Entrepreneurship conference with the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship..." More here

 

The Institute for Music Leadership congratulates this year's winners of The Eastman New Venture Challenge

The New Venture Challenge is a contest to encourage new thinking and innovative ideas in music.  It gives students the opportunity to develop a project proposal that could result in the launch of a new entrepreneurial enterprise.  This year’s winners are:

First Prize $2000
Rohan Krishnamurthy   
A New Design of the Ancient Mridangam

Second Prize (two awarded) $500
Philip Borter
Electronic Music Application Service (E-Maps)

Beverly Cabezas Ferguson & Aysedeniz Gokcin  
Music History Trip to London

 

 

Innovations

University of Rochester Center for Entrepreneurship
Download a pdf of the most recent issue of Innovations, a University-wide newsletter from the University of Rochester Center for Entrepreneurship.

The 2009 Mark Ain Business Model Workshop Series and Competition
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Entrepreneurship in Music - in the News
Read the Inside Higher Ed article from January 2009 about the IML's latest workshop "Preparing the Generation-E Musician" as well as all the other entrepreneurship in music news. more


 

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