2. What professions can you
get in the music industry?
• Composer • Publisher
• Conductor • Historian
• Performer • Teacher/Professor
• Arranger • Librarian
• Recording Technician • Critic
• Therapist • Movie Score Composer
• Merchant • Studio Musician
3. Schools of Higher Learning
Recommended
• University of Rochester (Eastman School of
Music), New York
• Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA
• Berklee College of Music, Massachusetts
4. University of Rochester
(Eastman School of Music)
• The University of Rochester is a private research university located in
Rochester, New York. The University grants undergraduate, graduate,
doctoral, and professional degrees through six schools and various
interdisciplinary programs.
• The University is home to several noted schools and programs, including
the number one ranked Eastman School of Music, the oldest optics
program in the United States.
• The University enrolls approximately 4,600 undergraduates and 3,900
graduate students.
• The University of Rochester with its affiliated Strong Health System is the
largest employer in the Greater Rochester area and the sixth largest
employer in New York.
• The University is also affiliated with numerous Nobel Prize and Pulitzer
Prize winners
5. University of Rochester Tuition and
Fees
• Undergraduates in the College of Arts, Sciences, and
Engineering at the University of Rochester will see an
increase of 3.9 percent in the term bill, to $49,070
for the 2009-10 academic year.
• Tuition for the College will rise 4 percent from
$36,410 to $37,870, with the cost of the most
common combined room and board plans growing
3.6 percent from $10,810 to $11,200.
6. Musicians Institute
Located in Hollywood,
California, MI began in
the late '70s. There
were few school
options available to
musicians. When a few
dozen guitarists and
three full-time
instructors gathered for
the first GIT class in
1977, they knew that
they were breaking
new ground in music
education.
7. MI’s History…
• 1977 – February, The Guitar Institute of Technology, an intensive,
contemporary, vocational guitar program, opened its doors to full-time
students.
• 1978- The Bass Institute of Technology (BIT).
• 1980- The Percussion Institute of Technology (PIT).
• In the late '90s, MI began accelerating the pace of program development
to match a rapidly changing music industry.
• 2000- the Recording Artist Program (RAP). Based on a combination of
artist development, digital recording skills and music business training,
RAP combines technology and creativity to train the versatile independent
artists of the future.
• 2000 -The Guitar Craft Academy (GCA), focuses on building and
maintaining electric guitars and basses, a thriving element of the music
industry.
• 2002- The Music Business Program (MBP), dedicated to training both
musicians and non-musicians in the career skills demanded by the
business side of the industry.
• 2005 - MI's latest program, the Film Institute of Technology, began training
music video and commercial directors.
8. Berklee College of Music
The Rich History Begins….
(1954 -1966)
• Founded by Lawrence Berk, Schillinger House is
the first U.S. school to teach the popular music of
the time, jazz.
• 1954- Changes its name to Berklee School of
Music.
• 1960s- Recognizes guitar as a principal
instrument, and rock music hits campus.
• 1966-Graduates its first fully accredited
baccalaureate degree class.
9. (1970 -1987)
• 1970-Changes name to Berklee College of Music.
• 1971-Duke Ellington receives the college's first
honorary doctorate.
• 1979-Lee Eliot Berk becomes the college's second
president. Establishes the world's first
undergraduate degree program in film scoring.
• 1984-Launches the world's first college-level
major in music synthesis.
• 1987-Begins offering the world's first college-
level songwriting major.
10. (1990 – 1999)
• 1991-City Music, Berklee's program to make music
education available to underserved youths, is launched
• 1993-Establishes hand percussion as a principal
instrument. Founds Berklee International Network to
support contemporary music education globally.
• 1994-Opens Berklee Center in Los Angeles to build
strategic relationships for the college throughout the
music industry.
• 1995-Launches student-run Heavy Rotation Records to
promote student rock, pop, and hip-hop talent.
• 1996-Establishes music therapy major.
• 1999-Incorporates hip-hop into the curriculum.
11. (2000 – Current)
• 2002-Launches Berkleemusic.com, an online music school.
• 2003-Students found the college's second label, Jazz Revelation
Records.2004Roger H. Brown is named the college's third president.
• 2005-Music business/management becomes the most populated of
the college's 12 majors.
• 2006-Increases presence of bluegrass on campus as mandolin and
banjo become principal instruments.
• 2007-The Berklee Internet Radio Network (BIRN) hits the digital
airwaves.
• 2008-Opens Cafe 939, a student-run, 200-seat, live-music venue and
coffeehouse.
• 2009-Adds three new video game scoring classes as part of new video
game curriculum.
• 2010-Allows students to minor in a program of study.
• 2011-Opens first international campus in Valencia, Spain.
12. Tuition
• Summer 2012
– Degree Program $15,190
– Diploma Program $13,082
– 12-Week Full-Credit Program $13,082
– Tuition Prepayment for 12-Week Program $100
• Fall 2012
– Degree Program $17,725
– Diploma Program $15,282
• Spring 2013
– Degree Program $17,725
– Diploma Program $15,282
• Comprehensive Fee
– Charged per semester of attendance to all students for cost of non-curricular facilities,
programs, and services.
– Full-Time Students $520
– Part-Time Students (6 credits or less) $260
• Health Insurance
– Charged once per academic year - may be waivedFall 2012 TBD
– Spring 2013 (Charged to students who did not attend Fall 2012) TBD
– Summer 2013 (Charged to students who did not attend Fall 2012 or Spring 2013) $570
