Teaching
Creating Music Business Instruction
as the Ultimate Backstage Pass
I bring backstage access to students with every module. Practical, useful information about real-world challenges and their solutions. My method replaces “sage on the stage” teaching and transitions to a coaching “facilitator mentality.”
- Learning that turns insights into actionable steps. Applying concepts taught in the classroom to methods and solutions for challenges presented in today’s changing music business.
- Endeavoring to create a positive, supportive, and inclusive post secondary education learning environment through the application of flexible rapport-building techniques.
- Practical lessons, made memorable, that bridge the knowledge gap between instructor and student.
University-Level Courses
In person or virtual, my portfolio of Music Business and Arts Presenting coursework looks to enrich, engage and enable students to gain skills and insights that will serve as foundational.
Always collaborative and thought provoking with real-world application.
Music Business Courses
- Legal Aspects in the Performing Arts
- Music Business Agreements
- Financial Management in the Live Entertainment Industry
- Music Copyright
- Sponsorship, Development, and Grants for Nonprofit Performing Arts Organizations
- Performing Arts Center Management
- Music Publishing
- Concert Tour Management and Production
- Arts Leadership
University of Miami Frost School of Music
Adjunct Professor Music Media and Industry2022 – 2024
Graduate-Level Course:
Concert Tour Management and Production
Music Department Career Talks
Music Business Professions: Skills Assessment for Undergraduate Music Majors
Many industry veterans I have spoken with wish they had a helpful and clear minded resource that detailed the skills needed to succeed in the varied positions throughout the profession when they were starting out. Important and practical help with an honest self-assessment as to where they could fit. I could not find one, so I created one.
The questions that require an honest assessment:
- How do my current skills and personality align with my selected career path?
- What skills do I need to acquire? Which do I have no interest in?
- What do I believe I can be expert at, if given the proper instruction?
Music Talent Agent: Considering a Career in Booking Talent
With more than 25 years as a music talent agent and having started and currently run two agencies, I have found there are very few resources available to music major undergraduates considering a career as a music talent agent. I created one.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
- Call my agent! The role of a music talent agent, what has changed and what will always remain the same.
- Are you an Artist Manager or are you an Agent?
- Show me the money! Concert Economics
- An agent’s role beyond concerts
- Entrepreneurship and starting your own agency
- Seriously, can I do this for a career?
Professional Development
In the Harvard Extension course Leaders of Learning, each student works to identify and develop their personal theory of learning, and explore how it fits into the shifting landscape of learning.
The education sector is undergoing great transformation, and in the coming decades will continue to change. How we learn, what we learn, where we learn, and why we learn; all these questions are reexamined.
NY State Bar Association CLE Certificates
- Production Deals
- NFTs-Tax and Securities Aspects; Impact of Technology on the Music Industry
- Annual Music Litigation Review; Music Industry Damage Calculations
Academic Writing
For me, writing is a fundamental and necessary aspect of deep thinking. If you can formulate and convey your thoughts in a cogent manner through writing, then your students or your team will most effectively assimilate, personalize and apply them.”
Music Business Research
Journal Writing and Academic Book Chapters
When change arrives to the music industry, it tends to be swift and powerful.
I observe, research and discuss these changes. Currently preparing a book chapter that probes the live music industry’s response to the pandemic shutdown, the national #ReviveLive movement and it’s impact for lasting concert industry success.