Music Business/Management
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"The music business is about relationships, at every level. Which means that if you're the manager of an artist, you are the first person that someone from the record label or an agency is going to meet. So their judgment is of you—even before your artists. You can have an effect on whether they're going to be interested in your artist."
Read More- B.A., Clark University
- J.D., Boston University School of Law
- Deputy general counsel and an executive producer at WGBH, Boston’s public television/radio station and the leading producer of public television programming
- President of WGBH’s music publishing companies: WGBH Music and Great Blue Hills Music
- Former entertainment lawyer in private practice whose clients included Phish, Maurice Starr (manager and producer of New Kids on the Block), George Thorogood, Mark Wahlberg, the estate of famed bluesman Robert Johnson, Rick Danko of the Band, Homestead Records, Rounder Records, and Rykodisc
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"I would love every student inside of Berklee to understand that your music is a part of your business portfolio. You need to learn something about business. You can't leave your careers in the hands of another individual. You've got to have an active and immediate role in understanding the face and future of what you're trying to do. And that's what business teaches you."
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"I teach Legal Aspects and Advanced Contract Negotiation, and I just try to break it down into plain English so that students understand what I'm talking about. And I draw a lot of diagrams. When they get a contract and are skimming through it, I want them to know when they need to talk to an attorney. I don't want them to feel like, 'I took Legal Aspects; I don't need a lawyer.' I want them to have enough knowledge to know when something doesn't feel right, and I want them to be able to have a more informed conversation with their attorney."
Read More- Alumnus, Berklee College of Music
- B.A., University of Michigan
- J.D., Northeastern University School of Law
- Contract attorney at Perkins, Smith & Cohen, specializing in entertainment, copyright, and trademark law litigation