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The Entrepreneurial Muse: Inspiring your Career in Classical Music explores principles of entrepreneurship in a classical music setting, inspiring students, emerging professionals, and educators alike to gain the broader perspective and strategic understanding required to negotiate the complex and ever-changing landscape of a professional music career. The author's own career journey creates an additional narrative intended to inspire a broader and more creative view of career possibilities. Readers will acquire strategic and observational tools designed to expand their view of possible career paths in classical music, stimulate creative thinking about how their unique skills can find value in the 21st-century marketplace, and realize their professional goals through the entrepreneurial process.
About the Author
Jeffrey Nytch enjoys a diverse career as a composer, educator, arts administrator, and consultant, and is a major thought leader in the field of entrepreneurship in the arts. As a composer, his works have been performed throughout the U.S. and Europe by a long list of distinguished artists and ensembles, and his tenure as Executive Director of Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble ("PNME") saw the group growing its audience by 500% while tripling its budget. Since joining the faculty of The University of Colorado-Boulder as Director of the Entrepreneurship Center for Music (in 2009) he has built the program into one of the most robust of its kind, including an expanded curriculum, a weekly professional development series, and an 18-credit Certificate in Music Entrepreneurship that includes a minor in business. Today the ECM is among the top such programs in the country and serves as a model in the burgeoning field of arts entrepreneurship training. Nytch is also in wide demand as a speaker and scholar, having delivered papers at musical, entrepreneurial, and scientific conferences here and abroad. He is also a frequent guest clinician at schools and conservatories nationwide, and uses principles of entrepreneurship to inform his strategic planning consulting for small arts organizations and institutions launching programs in arts entrepreneurship education.
