Due to the COVID-19 virus, the Tisch Summer High School Recorded Music program will not be taking place in New York City. The courses in this program will be offered online with asynchronous and synchronous components.
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Challenge yourself to define the music industry of tomorrow.
Receive specialized training in music business entrepreneurship alongside direct instruction on the latest studio hardware to create and distribute commercially successful recordings. This unique educational experience will immerse you in the heart of the music industry.
Program Overview
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, 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. 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.
Note: The Tisch Summer High School Program is not a leisure camp. The program runs daily from 12 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET, Monday to Friday, including academic classes, professional training, and production time, students will often be just as busy in the evenings which also include curricular events and opportunities to work individually or collaborate with peers on assigned projects.
“Going to the program, working with my professor, and being surrounded by people as passionate and hard working as myself really solidified my choice to go into the music industry. It not only helped me be confident in it, but also gave me a direction in which to start pursuing my spot in the music industry. It really did change my life.” — Julia Rich
Students will acquire an in-depth, theoretical and practical knowledge of Digital Audio Workstations through this lab-based workshop. An emphasis will be made on file management, and system configurations. Students will then start using those industry-standard DAWs, learning the operating modes and tools, gain structure and multi-tracking techniques, using overdubs to build an arrangement. The class will round out with techniques for editing and "comping," consolidating tracks and preparing the files for the mix session.
This course provides a general overview of the different segments of the music industry. Topics include: key players and their roles in generating revenue streams; common creative, business, and legal problems that arise in, and the range of business transactions that govern, the day to day operation of different business ventures in the industry; record label operations, marketing, promotion, music publishing, touring, new business models and career opportunities.
As a companion course to both Fundamentals of Music Production and Foundations of Music Business in Recorded Music's Summer High School Program, this course is designed to introduce students to various topics that define the art and culture of the music industry today. By engaging in virtual field trips, workshops, masterclasses, and first-hand conversations with leading industry professionals, students will enrich their understanding and perspectives about the music industry and how it propels New York City's cultural life.
Based on summer 2020, here is a tentative daily program schedule:
Monday
12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. - Foundations of Music Business
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Arts & Culture of New York City
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - virtual jam times, community building, music sharing, and group collaborative work for the program's final projects
Tuesday
12:00 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. - Foundations of Music Production
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Arts & Culture of New York City
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - virtual jam times, community building, music sharing, and group collaborative work for the program's final projects
Wednesday
12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. - Foundations of Music Business
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Arts & Culture of New York City
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - virtual jam times, community building, music sharing, and group collaborative work for the program's final projects
Thursday
12:00 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. - Foundations of Music Production
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Arts & Culture of New York City
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - virtual jam times, community building, music sharing, and group collaborative work for the program's final projects
Friday
12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. - Foundations of Music Business
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Arts & Culture of New York City
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - virtual jam times, community building, music sharing, and group collaborative work for the program's final projects
Saturdays and Sundays
No scheduled classes or events
All times are EDT. Precise schedules will be shared with admitted students closer to the program start date.
Tisch has a limited number of full scholarships for high school students to attend the Tisch summer programs. Scholarships are given to students who demonstrate the most financial need.
