Performance as a business

College Majors Music Major
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<p>Used to be you went to Conservatory came out and got a job playing for an orchestra. Not quite that simple but more the norm.</p>

<p>Now you graduate and need to become your own business. Whether its playing at weddings or setting up a home studio for recording or teaching or forming an ensemble.</p>

<p>I have heard that some schools are offering courses or are considering do so for performance majors to better be able to handle the real world as it is today.</p>

<p>Anyone run into options of this type of classes inside the performance degree?</p>

<p>I am aware of the majors in music business, that isn't want I am talking about.</p>

<p>I am asking about a performance major being able to market and run themselves as a service business not an employee.</p>

<p>Anyone heard or read anything?</p>

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<p>Some schools are starting to wake up to these facts and offer at least a one-semester elective that deals with these issues. (See <a href="http://www.oberlin.edu/catalog/con/cstud.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.oberlin.edu/catalog/con/cstud.html&lt;/a> for Oberlin's.)</p>

<p>Another reason for running your career as a formal business is to shield personal assets from liabilities arising from professional activities. My wife and I have incorporated a business, which I will not identify on CC so as not to run afoul of regulations about commercial postings, for all of these reasons. Back in the day, we had to learn everything of that sort outside of school.</p>