Entrepreneurs in Music — and Don’t Forget about Mozart!

Today is the last day of our panel discussion about entrepreneurship. If you’ve read the previous days’ postings, you can see that we’ve covered a wide range of topics, but I think we’ve just scratched the surface. I hope someone will research the question I asked Angela after she listed a number of Boston area entrepreneurs a couple days ago – is there a list of entrepreneurs in orchestras?

But orchestras aren’t the only place where musician-entrepreneurs are found, as several of our panelists admirably demonstrate. In fact, it could be argued that the best ideas in musical entrepreneurship are found far outside the orchestral field.

I hope there never will be an “end” to this discussion, but I asked our panelists to write today about whether they could see an opportunity they’d like to suggest to a young person. Their answers are below.

All of us here at Polyphonic deeply appreciate our panelists’ submissions. On a personal note, I’ve been thrilled to take part in this panel because the subject lies so close to my heart.