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Jay Fialkov, Professor

Music Business/Management
  • 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
  • Founder and co-owner of the Giant/Rockville record labels, which released albums by rock group Uncle Tupelo, whose offshoots include Wilco and Son Volt
  • Member of the board of directors of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts

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