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Scott Ambrose Reilly Exits Amazon to Helm US X5
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Ambrose Reilly, better known to his longtime music industry friends as Bullethead, is leaving Amazon after almost 5 years to become the U.S. CEO of Stockholm based X5 Music Group. Just months ago, X5 received $9.09 million in funding from Northzone Ventures, who are also a lead investor in Spotify. Ambrose Reilly started as ...
Queens Theatre Appoints Ray Cullom as Executive Director
New York—The Queens Theatre in the Park Board of Directors today announced the appointment of Ray Cullom as executive director. Cullom brings 20 years of experience in arts administration, programming and production. Prior to this appointment, he was managing director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn. “Ray's experience and expertise will assure the ...
The Art of Getting Funding for Your Art...
Unfortunately, this discussion only seems to happen outside of the US. But lots of other countries actively fund the arts, and that can mean everything to a developing artist. Still, getting the money can be tricky. “Artists really need to know how to write good proposals," Fredrik Soroea of Datarock recently told Digital Music News in ...
Want to Make $50,000 a Year in Music? Start with One Dollar a Day
On Music Think Tank, Chris Seth discusses how musicians can make additional income just by starting out with one dollar a day. It is as simple as playing the guitar on a street corner. Throughout his post, he adds additional sources of income and explains that individuals can make more money than an entire band. Chris gives ...
Have You Worked on a Cruise Ship?
David Cashman, a former showband pianist, is finishing his doctorate at Southern Cross University. His doctoral thesis is on the way music is used on cruise ships and the lives of musicians who work those jobs. Obviously this fits in very well with the Chronicles of a Cruise Ship Musician, the section of our site that ...
Terence Blanchard named Artistic Director of the Henry Mancini Institute at the UM Frost School of Music
Coral Gables, FL—Five time Grammy Award winning jazz trumpeter and film composer Terence Blanchard was named Artistic Director of the Henry Mancini Institute (HMI), a prestigious program at the University of Miami Frost School of Music that is training a new generation of orchestral and jazz artists to create and perform in mixed-genre, collaborative settings. Blanchard ...
How to Actually Make $50,000 a Year as a Musician
One of the reasons we started MusicianWages.com was because of the huge reservoir of unqualified career advice that was being served to musicians online. I usually keep quiet about the charlatanry tips I find online, but I just can't pass this one up. It displays the characteristics of bad career advice so acutely that I just ...
7 Ways Most Non-Famous Musicians Make a Living
When we think about what it means to make a living as a musician many people still conjure up ideas of selling plastic discs and endlessly touring the country. Well, that's perhaps how things work at the top, but what about near the middle? Suzanne Lainson of BrandsPlusMusic has written a short overview of the more ...
Dr. Steve Anderson Announces Retirement from Brubeck Institute
Steve Anderson, the former dean of the Conservatory of Music and current director of the Brubeck Institute, will retire this summer. During his nearly four-decade career in higher education, he has performed in numerous countries, collaborated with some of the biggest names in the music and film industry and expanded the scope of jazz education. A ...
Dedication - To Get a Music Biz Job You'll Need It
Lately we've been talking quite a bit about how to get a job in the music industry and the realities of the current job market. Some of our readers have been kind enough to share their stories of how they started their careers in this climate and what they sacrificed to get them. Today, I wanted ...
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