Entrepreneurial Musicianship

Entrepreneurial Musicianship is a set of valuable skills that complement your artistic development: creative and critical thinking, communication, financial management, artistic programming, audience development, and more.

EM is available to students through individual advising, courses, and other programs including internships, fellowships, grants, and opportunities to earn money.

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Our Programs

are designed to bring each student individualized resources to help them develop and reach their own unique artistic and career goals.

What We Do

Learn more about EM and how we complement your musical education here at the New England Conservatory.

NEC’s Entrepreneurial Student Grant program empowers students to explore and execute their unique programmatic ideas. Our grants fund innovative, impactful projects that help students develop important extra-musical skills as they develop their music.

Every semester, we place students in hybrid administrative-performance internships built specifically for NEC students. Build your professional performance and your work resume with organizations like A Far Cry, the Boston Ballet, and the Boston Chamber Music Society.

Every NEC student has access to unlimited individual advising with the EM Team, whose collective experience spans from professional freelancing to self-managed chamber ensembles to strategy for major American orchestras. Click here to schedule an appointment.

EM Advising

Every NEC student and alum has access to free advising from the EM team--a lively band of three conservatory-trained professionals with experience at every level of every size of arts organization.These one-on-one advising sessions can be about anything from bio writing and resumes to grant proposals and long term projects to career direction and artistic goals.

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Our grants fund innovative and impactful projects and help students develop skills critical to their success.

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EM Grants

Our grants fund innovative and impactful projects and help students develop skills critical to their success. Students are coached through every step of the grant process, from first draft to final pitch, by the EM Team.

Want to get inspired? Learn more about the amazing projects students have created with the help of EM Grants.

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Who We Are

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