News: Make it in the music business
Rotherham College of Arts and Technology (RCAT) is working in partnership with a team of UK music industry experts at Sheffield's Steelworks recording studios to launch a new course designed to help talented young musicians and songwriters set up their own business.
"My Music: My Business" launches in September and ambitious school and college leavers keen to kick start their careers in the music industry are now invited to apply – and audition – for fifteen places.
The course, which has been created by music industry specialists Music Business Training (MBT), aims to give artists in all music genres the artistic development and business acumen they need to work for themselves and take their music to market.
John Hart, of MBT (pictured, front - right), said: "The music industry has undergone seismic change in recent years and access to market is now easier than ever for aspiring artists through a wide range of internet provision.
"However, it is difficult to grasp the opportunities out there if you are a young person lacking core business skills and key music industry knowledge.
"Our intensive one-year course is run by the industry for the industry and tailor-made to give young people the essential e-commerce and business skills they need to promote and sell their product - their music, their performance, their creativity."
Advertisement Working in partnership with Rotherham College and funded through them via the Government's Skills Funding Agency, participants will achieve a creative practitioner extended diploma at level 4. This is equal to the first year of a degree.
Sheffield entrepreneur and business start-up guru Ruth Amos, will be course tutor, and Sheffield singer-songwriter Sarah-Jay Hawley who has performed and written with Massive Attack, The Longpigs and Finlay Quaye.
The course also aims to attract big names and experienced music industry practitioners from Sheffield and beyond as guest speakers.
Every participant will also have the opportunity to work one-to-one with Steelworks producers to help them develop and release their music via digital platforms such as Spotify, iTunes, YouTube and Amazon.
My Music: My Business is a national first for Sheffield. MBT is piloting the course here and then plans to take it to other UK cities with strong creative and digital sectors such as Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham.
John added: "Sheffield has such a strong music industry heritage and we are delighted to work in partnership with the Steelworks and RCAT to launch our new course to help nurture new talent in the city.
"There is a strong music industry infrastructure already in place in Sheffield and many local success stories such as Pulp, Arctic Monkeys, Richard Hawley, Heaven 17, Human League and Joe Cocker, have come out of the city.
"We aim to build on this heritage, and help consolidate Sheffield as music industry hub for the future too by developing a new generation of collaborative artists who can succeed here and don't feel the need to leave for London, as has happened so often in the past.
"The course aims to find and develop talent and boost the local music economy too."
Subjects covered in the course will include brand and repertoire development, market analysis, handling intellectual property rights, attracting online sales and developing performance, gigs, CDs and merchandise revenue streams.
My Music, My Business website
Rotherham College website
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"My Music: My Business" launches in September and ambitious school and college leavers keen to kick start their careers in the music industry are now invited to apply – and audition – for fifteen places.
The course, which has been created by music industry specialists Music Business Training (MBT), aims to give artists in all music genres the artistic development and business acumen they need to work for themselves and take their music to market.
John Hart, of MBT (pictured, front - right), said: "The music industry has undergone seismic change in recent years and access to market is now easier than ever for aspiring artists through a wide range of internet provision.
"However, it is difficult to grasp the opportunities out there if you are a young person lacking core business skills and key music industry knowledge.
"Our intensive one-year course is run by the industry for the industry and tailor-made to give young people the essential e-commerce and business skills they need to promote and sell their product - their music, their performance, their creativity."
Advertisement Working in partnership with Rotherham College and funded through them via the Government's Skills Funding Agency, participants will achieve a creative practitioner extended diploma at level 4. This is equal to the first year of a degree.
Sheffield entrepreneur and business start-up guru Ruth Amos, will be course tutor, and Sheffield singer-songwriter Sarah-Jay Hawley who has performed and written with Massive Attack, The Longpigs and Finlay Quaye.
The course also aims to attract big names and experienced music industry practitioners from Sheffield and beyond as guest speakers.
Every participant will also have the opportunity to work one-to-one with Steelworks producers to help them develop and release their music via digital platforms such as Spotify, iTunes, YouTube and Amazon.
My Music: My Business is a national first for Sheffield. MBT is piloting the course here and then plans to take it to other UK cities with strong creative and digital sectors such as Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham.
John added: "Sheffield has such a strong music industry heritage and we are delighted to work in partnership with the Steelworks and RCAT to launch our new course to help nurture new talent in the city.
"There is a strong music industry infrastructure already in place in Sheffield and many local success stories such as Pulp, Arctic Monkeys, Richard Hawley, Heaven 17, Human League and Joe Cocker, have come out of the city.
"We aim to build on this heritage, and help consolidate Sheffield as music industry hub for the future too by developing a new generation of collaborative artists who can succeed here and don't feel the need to leave for London, as has happened so often in the past.
"The course aims to find and develop talent and boost the local music economy too."
Subjects covered in the course will include brand and repertoire development, market analysis, handling intellectual property rights, attracting online sales and developing performance, gigs, CDs and merchandise revenue streams.
My Music, My Business website
Rotherham College website
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