Tisch Summer High School Program – Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music

The Tisch Summer High School Program – Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music focuses on specialized training in music business entrepreneurship and direct instruction on the latest studio hardware to create and distribute commercially successful recordings. Students study how music is recorded, produced, and distributed to consumers, and learn how music companies are conceptualized, created, and grown. The program also includes learning how new technologies are changing the way people hear music, with exposure to a wide range of current practices in the music industry and to executives and artists working in the new digital era, along with master-class lectures by known innovators and visionaries on topics such as touring, artist management, and digital media.

• Schedule: Four-week program; average daily schedule Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm, with academic classes, professional training, and/or studio and production time, plus evening and weekend curricular events and assigned individual or collaborative project work

The program includes academic classes, professional training, studio and production time, and curricular events. Students work individually and collaborate with peers on assigned projects. The Tisch Summer High School Program is not a leisure camp, and students become entrepreneurs-in-training in a setting that immerses them in the heart of the music industry. The program is taught by working industry leaders and mentors, with a leadership team that includes Devon Baran (Music Production Instructor), Halima Edozie-Akinlade (Music Production Instructor), Andre Howard (Music Business Instructor), and Amir A. Oliver (Arts & Culture Instructor). It is the first of its kind to provide professional business and artistic training toward a B.F.A. degree for aspiring creative entrepreneurs in the music industry. One student, Julia Rich, stated that attending the program, working with her professor, and being surrounded by passionate and hard-working peers solidified her choice to go into the music industry and gave her a direction for pursuing her place in the field.

Last updated July 5, 2026.