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1-Year Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Music Entrepreneurship
In collaboration with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop, Music Director The UMBC post-baccalaureate Certificate in Music Entrepreneurship will empower musicians to enhance their career opportunities by learning business and entrepreneurial skills, and through practical experiences in entrepreneurial and educational ventures. Students will receive intensive classes in innovative music education methods and musical advocacy through collaborations between UMBC's Department of Music and the Baltimore Symphony's innovative programs. The curriculum will provide skills necessary to establish and build music education programs, music ensembles, and community arts organizations, through management and organizational leadership seminars. The year of study will culminate for each student with a project derived from practical internship experiences
Open to students who have completed a bachelor's degree with a major or minor in music, or who can display advanced skills/training as a musician.
 Music at UMBC The curriculum for the Certificate Program in Music Entrepreneurship centers on a collaboration with the Baltimore Symphony and their innovative OrchKids program of music education for public school children. In addition to the study of the music education methodology of OrchKids through classroom and internship work, students will address management and organizational leadership skills, both in OrchKids and in other music organizations, which will be applicable to a wide range of future opportunities for these students as musical entrepreneurs. The following describes specific course content: El Sistema Methodology, Philosophy and Its Application in Orchkids Led by Dan Trahey, this course delves into the history and teachings of the El Sistema philosophies from Venezuela to Baltimore and beyond. Students study concepts of early childhood music fundamental training (El Sistema methods compared to other established methods), age appropriate orchestra and chorus development, and creative composition and improvisational principles and techniques. Individual woodwind, brass and string pedagogy will be presented, in addition to percussion techniques and percussion ensemble direction in the El Sistema philosophy. Basic instrument repair and the use of technology in music education are included. Management and Organizational Leadership in El Sistema/OrchKids Led by Nick Skinner, this course explores the basic principles of leadership and the tools employed in leading a successful organization. Topic areas include: Program assessment. Strategic and business planning. Marketing and public relations. Governance, including board development and management. Fundraising and fiscal management. Human resources (hiring, salaries, benefits, legalities). Additionally, students learn how to create and manage partnerships (public schools, youth and social centers, government), address at-risk youth and communities, and identify child development and behavior management issues within a cross-cultural understanding. Establishing Music Organizations Led by Phil Snedeker, this course addresses the essentials of entrepreneurial thinking, including opportunity creation, risk, creativity and innovation, idea generation, social change, product development, and market research. Students analyze existing arts organizations, apply entrepreneurial concepts to create new enterprises, create a business plan, and grow a business by preparing a business feasibility study. Topic areas include: Marketing information for new ventures. Grant writing and other funding strategies, including proposals to corporations. Public speaking, negotiating, writing, contracts, securing a business/organization site, supplies, and networking. Internships in Entrepreneurial Organizations Through observation and participation in music teaching and management/leadership activities in OrchKids or other initiatives of the Baltimore Symphony (Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras; BSO Rusty Musicians - adult amateur musicians), students gain valuable hands-on experience. During weekly seminar instructor led discussions, students share their field experience with their peers and faculty. The program culminates with each student presenting their final project. Certificate Faculty and Guest Lecturers Faculty are recognized experts in the management and leadership of innovative musical organizations, as well as innovative pedagogical methods that are part of these endeavors. Dan Trahey - El Sistema Methodology, Philosophy and Its Application in OrchKids Education: Teaching: Work: Dan Trahey is a professor of music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he founded the El Sistema program "Tuned In." Dan's Community Engagement classes at Peabody have helped cultivate teaching artists and community minded musicians throughout Baltimore. He also lectures at the New England Conservatory of Music as part of the Fellows Program. Dan has presented lectures on music education at the Chicago Symphony, Princeton University, Maryland Institute College of Art, The Mozarteum, American Visionary Arts Museum, New England Conservatory, TEDX, Yale University, League of American Orchestras, South Bank Centre, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Urban Music Education Conference. He has been central in the development of El Sistema programs in Allentown, Virginia Beach, Ft. Worth, Charlotte, Orange County, Waterbury and Kalamazoo. Dan has lead over 150 people to Latin America to study and experience El Sistema. Nick Skinner - Management and Organizational Leadership in Education: Teaching: Work: Over the past several years, Nick Skinner has become a prominent music educator and arts administrator in Baltimore. Nick is currently working with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s major social initiative, OrchKids, where he serves as the dean of students and is a liaison between teachers, parents, and students as co-founder and OrchKids Manager. Nick also maintains a successful trumpet studio. Nick began his teaching in the Howard County Public School System in Maryland as an elementary instrumental instructor. He then moved on to teach in the Baltimore County Public School System in Maryland at Catonsville High School where he was the music director. Nick has served as an arts administrator at the Waldorf School in Baltimore and for the Archipelago Project, a non-profit organization devoted to arts advocacy. Nick has lead lectures, workshops, and seminars in Baltimore City; Traverse City, Michigan; Waterbury, Hartford, and Stamford, Connecticut; Boston, at the New England Conservatory; and Venezuela, with the El Sistema program. Nick has also become a distinguished consultant and arts advocate within the El Sistema movement. Nick graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor’s degree in trumpet performance and music education.Phil Snedecor - Establishing Music Organizations Education: Teaching: Work: Phil Snedecor attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he received the prestigious Performers Certificate and studied arranging and composition with Professor Rayburn Wright, formerly arranger for Radio City Music Hall. Mr. Snedecor is a former member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and has held one-year positions with the National Symphony, the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra and the Baltimore Opera. He is Principal Trumpet in the Harrisburg (PA) Symphony Orchestra and former Co-Principal Trumpet in the Concert Artists of Baltimore. Mr. Snedecor has performed and toured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He has recorded under the RCA, CBS, Gothic, Koss, and Summit labels. Mr. Snedecor is on the faculty at George Mason University and has written a series of brass etude books that are required repertoire at many colleges and conservatories. His arrangements and compositions have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. Please visit his websites (www.wsbrass.com, and www.philsnedecor.com) for more information. Kristin Jurkscheit - Director of the Certificate Program in Music Entrepreneurship Education: Teaching: Work: On the faculty of UMBC as Affiliate Artist/French Horn Professor since 2010, Ms. Jurkscheit brings her diverse performing experience while pursuing an Executive MBA at the Johns Hopkins University Business School. She has been Principal Horn of the Cabrillo Music Festival since 1992, where she performed the world premiere of the horn concerto, "Xuan Zang", by Chiayu in August, 2011. Critics raved that Jurkscheit played "brilliantly in a piece that was idiomatic and expressive and shaped with care and beauty by the soloist." Ms. Jurkscheit held the tenured position of Third/Associate Principal Horn of the Colorado Symphony for 18 years, from 1992-2010. In the CSO, she performed on Schumann's Konzerstuck for Four Horns and Orchestra, Op. 86, was the soloist in Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 2, KV 417, and performed in numerous horn quartet recitals with the Colorado Symphony Horn Section. She has taught at the Barry Tuckwell Institute, Metro State College (Denver, CO) and guest lectured at the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO. Her students have gone on to perform in professional orchestras throughout the world. Guest Lecturers (subject to change) to include: Marin Alsop – Music Director, BSO The UMBC Department of Music and the Baltimore Symphony (Marin Alsop, Music Director) will unite to provide internships within the groundbreaking Baltimore Symphony programs including:
 Dan Trahey with OrchKids violinist
UMBC and the Department of Music
Founded in 1966, UMBC is increasingly recognized as one of the nation's most innovative research universities with a commitment to top-tier scholarship, cutting-edge research, and civic engagement. UMBC, an Honors University, is a mid-sized, public institution that attracts high-achieving students to its undergraduate and graduate programs in the liberal arts, sciences, and engineering. The university is governed by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. UMBC is ranked by the Carnegie Foundation in the category of Research Universities with high research activity. The university currently enrolls 13,199 students, representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and more than 150 countries. UMBC is considered a national leader in attracting outstanding students from all backgrounds and helping them succeed academically. For the third year in a row, UMBC has been named the #1 "Up-and-Coming" national university by the *U.S. News & World Report America's Best Colleges Guide*, and appears on a list of the top national universities "where the faculty has an unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching" (a list that includes such schools as Princeton, Brown, Yale, and Stanford Universities). By way of instruction, research, and service activities, UMBC remains dedicated to its mission of offering talented students a strong, academic foundation that will prepare them for graduate and professional study, entry into the workforce, and community service and leadership. About Music at UMBC
The Department of Music is actively engaged in cutting edge research and creative work within the structure of a liberal arts university. Through a research focus of its faculty on contemporary music, students and the community have access to, and an increased understanding of, the music of our time. In addition to the new program in music entrepreneurship, the department offers other courses of study in "Music for the Future" for graduate students, including the Certificate in American Contemporary Music, and courses leading to certification in Avid's Pro-Tools system (for audio engineers and musicians). Along this line, the Department also provides current advanced and innovative learning opportunities to undergraduate students through creative activities, research, and performance collaborations among students and faculty, and intensive faculty mentoring of students, which is at the core of our curriculum. In addition to standard courses in music, the UMBC music faculty recognize the changing employment landscape and challenges for young musicians, so have developed curricular and non-curricular opportunities for undergraduate students to address transitioning to life as an independent artist, including an outreach/public service component. These opportunities, in many cases, require entrepreneurial solutions, and build skills that all successful professionals in the music field must hold. Part of this initiative has been supported by a 2008-9 Kauffman Innovation Grant. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and OrchKids  Marin Alsop with OrchKids violinist The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is internationally recognized as having achieved a preeminent place among the world's most important orchestras. Acclaimed for its enduring pursuit of artistic excellence, the BSO has attracted a devoted national and international following while maintaining deep bonds throughout Maryland with innovative education and community outreach initiatives. The BSO made musical history in September 2007, when Maestra Marin Alsop led her inaugural concerts as the Orchestra's 12th music director, making her the first woman to head a major American orchestra. With her highly praised artistic vision, her dynamic musicianship and her commitment to accessibility in classical music, Maestra Alsop's leadership has ushered in a new era for the BSO and its audiences. Since 2006, the BSO has flourished under the dedicated leadership of Board Chairman Michael Bronfein and President and CEO Paul Meecham. OrchKids is based on a ground-breaking and dramatically successful program in music education – El Sistema ("The System") – which also carries equally important value as a social program. Begun in the mid-1970s in Venezuela, El Sistema has transformed the lives of more the one-million young people (K-12), primarily from disadvantaged backgrounds. El Sistema's approach to music education emphasizes intensive ensemble participation from the earliest stages, which promotes active group learning and peer teaching. Many international organizations recognize El Sistema as a unique program, worthy of implementation in nations throughout the world (currently, organizations in 25 countries throughout Asia, Europe, South, Central and North America have done so), particularly in countries that are seeking to reduce the levels of poverty, illiteracy, and exclusion among youth in underserved communities. El Sistema-inspired programs in the US have started in the last several years in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Baltimore (OrchKids). The Baltimore program is the largest and oldest of these initiatives. "The Baltimore Symphony OrchKids program provides opportunities for personal development to Baltimore's most vulnerable children, helping them overcome the social challenges that they face, including poverty, crime and failing public schools. Part of the goal of OrchKids is to see that students from the program become the leaders of their school in academics, music and school citizenship; that they become top candidates for prestigious high schools and collegiate programs; and over the course of time that they become leaders that give back and strengthen their community." (Visit the BSO OrchKids Website.) Who Should be Interested in This Program?
8-12 students
There are 2 steps to the application process:
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 Phil Snedecor with OrchKids trumpet students Applications for
2013-2014 Application deadline: Kristin Jurkscheit, Director E. Michael Richards, Chair of Music Email: Downloads
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