Grow Your Art: Dave Douglas + NEC Jazz Concert

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290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA
United States

The Grow Your Art Residency culminates in a concert with Dave Douglas and NEC Jazz.

About the Grow Your Art Residency:

How do you earn a living and manage a sustainable business while honoring your art?

How do you grow and champion the art that you believe in?

How do you build your artistic community?

How do you build a life in music?

Learn from Guest Artist, Dave Douglas in a week of performance, masterclass, and workshops to help build the life in music you want. 

Whether you see yourself as a recording artist, an orchestral player, a member of a touring band, a chamber musician, or an educator, these skills will help you find and build roads to success. Music business skills help with every aspect of your musical life, whether you are promoting your music commercially, running a music education nonprofit, applying for grant funding, or forming authentic connections with fellow artists who believe in your work.

$5,000 PITCH COMPETITION

WORKSHOPS

NEC students, alumni, and community members from all musical styles are warmly welcome. Hosted by NEC Jazz and Entrepreneurial Musicianship.

Artists
  • Dave Douglas, Trumpet
Entrepreneurial Musicianship dance and music project
Date
Location
NEC: Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre

NEC Students & Alumni compete for $5,000 to help develop the business side of their musicianship. A competitive application process modeled on real-world grants, finalists present at this live pitch...

Dave Douglas
Date
Location
NEC: Williams Hall

Dave discusses his career and lessons learned in the music industry, with questions from students.

Hosted by NEC Jazz and Entrepreneurial Musicianship. Open to NEC students, alumni, and to the public...