Music Business
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Musicians Institute, in Hollywood, California, offers a comprehensive, hands-on education in contemporary music performance, recording, guitar making, music business and film. If youre serious about your music, your education, and your career, take a look around the site to see what MI has to offer, then contact us for more information about how we can help you reach your goals. Welcome
Welcome back! Take a look around the site to see whats new at MI, including the improved and expanded 1. Musicians Referral page. Whether youre looking for a gig or other musicians, sign up for MRS today. And if youre living in LA, be sure to come by the Registrars Office and apply for an Alumni Pass so you can keep using the library and practice facilities on weekends. Were always here to help – visit again soon!
Success comes in all forms- performing, recording, writing, working, teaching, creative growthwhatever your story, we want to hear about it (check out 1. Success Stories and Alumni Notes (below) for news on some of your fellow students and grads).
Email [email protected], including your name (if its changed since you were a student, be sure to include your name as it would appear on our records), which MI program you attended, when you attended, your current contact information (email and/or phone) and a brief description of what youve been doing. Well get back in touch with you for more details- MI is proud of its alumni, and well keep working to help promote you and your career.
MI grads are working in every area of the music industry all over the world. Here are a few recent notes from far-flung alumni, faculty and staff:
Orlando Rashid (RIT Instructor) is enjoying chart-topping success for his work as mixing engineer on the Jamie Foxx hit, Unpredictable
Fabio Soares (GIT) backed Latin superstar Gloria Trevi for a recent live concert broadcast on Telemundo
Jordan Lawhead (GIT/MBP) just signed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV
Alberto Rizzo Schettino (KIT) sends this update: “1. Oversea Orchestra just released a new CD, Rock In Classic. Ive been working side-by-side with the conductor, writing scores, charts, and preparing them for the musicians and conductor himself. The record features original and cover tunes, and the orchestra plays famous pop/rock songs in a classical style. Lots of famous cats in there! Its been exhausting work but also absolutely constructive for learning about scoring, arranging and collaborations between musicians in the ensemble”
Matt Battle (GIT) writes to say “I graduated from the Bachelors Progam in 1999 and have been working ever since as a professional musician. Currently, I am producing singers and music for television (The Tom Joyner Show on ABC) and commercials, as well as performing throughout the US with such acts as Heatwave, Wayne Foster Entertainment, Friends of Distinction, and Barbara Lewis, Harold Melvins Blue Notes and the Intruders. In 2005, my original band Soul Traffic won a Los Angeles Music Award for “Best Live Performance”. For more info, check out Matts website…
Erja Lyytinen (GIT) has signed with the Ruf Records label. The Finnish native is in the midst of a European tour and will be traveling to Memphis this April to record a solo CD. Check out more info on this blues guitar slinger/vocalist/songwriter on her website…
Stacey Quinealty (VIT) and his band Carbon 9 are profiled in a recent article about up-and-coming bands in LAs Daily News. They will be performing at a post-Grammy event…
Ken Jaquess (BIT) reports that Book of the Dead, the new CD by K2 (Prog Rock Records) has been getting rave notices. Joining Ken on the CD are progressive rock luminaries Allan Holdsworth (guitar), Ryu Okumoto (keys)of Spocks Beard, violinist Yvette Devereaux and vocalist Shaun Guerin. Ken adds, “Attending