ISU Music Practicum Students

This summer I was offered two internships with the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and the Peoria Symphony. After a lot of consideration I realized I could not possibly turn down one of these great opportunities. While neither of these internships are paid, and they are a great distance apart, I know the huge amount of time spent in the car will be worth it to experience the inner workings of these two very different orchestras. I was able to find out about these positions through countless emails to any orchestras within the Peoria to Chicago area. The Illinois Philharmonic emailed me back almost immediately and seemed quite eager to meet and work with me. Persistence was the key for the Peoria Symphony. They took months and several unanswered emails before I received a response that they were interested in giving me a position. IPO is an ensemble that not many people have heard of, but it is a very small orchestra in Park Forest, IL. This internship is considered a marketing intern...

Alright, Rose wanted me to post in here the process of applying for my internship at the Kennedy Center.  So here goes - I'll try to make it pretty concise. I'm a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, a women's music fraternity; Illinois State's chapter is Lambda Mu.  All members of SAI have access to their national website where they list scholarships and other awards members can apply for.  One of the awards they give is a living stipend for a SAI member to complete an internship at the Kennedy Center over the summer months.  There's a link on that page to the DeVos Institute, the program through which all KC interns are coordinated.  Here's the link - http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/artsmanagement/internships/home.cfm .  I checked it out, and decided to apply for it.  Why not??  The least they could do is tell me no.  My situation was a little different because I had to send my KC application to SAI Nationals before I could send it to th...

Hey all! This summer I'm interning at the Kennedy Center in the National Symphony Orchestra's education department.  My main responsibilities involve coordinating the NSO Summer Music Institute, a four-week intensive program for young musicians aged 15-20 that begins in July.  I'll be posting on another blog, so feel free to follow - http://zeelemontree.tumblr.com/ . Emily Kuchenbrod

If there are grammar errors I apologize I wrote this super fast at work. (While reading my morning emails and drinking coffee. That statement alone says how legit this internship is...) So now that the Super Bowl is over I'm back in the office. The past three days have been incredibly dizzying . The biggest test of working at Yamaha is going to test my time management skills. Currently there are seven or eight projects on my desk. I wasn't given too much direction on which one takes priority I just know that eventually they all have to get done. It's a rather daunting way of looking at work so I wrote each project unto a whiteboard I keep on my desk, the smaller it seems the easier it is for me to tackle. What I'm going to be doing in the next hour is emailing potential new Yamaha Artists. What happens is if an artist wants to be endorsed through Yamaha they submit a packet with all of their materials it is review (a process that I assume takes a while) and they they ar...

PROLOGUE: I'll explain Artist Relations in a following post this "Journal" is part of my internship at Yamaha. I'll define the key players and what I'm expected to do shortly. This is just the start. (P.S. I already graduated this is just to show you how diverse Music Business really can be. Plus Rose is an awesome teacher and I enjoy sharing the knowledge she gave me. Oh also, sorry for any typos or grammar errors, I'm a musician not a writer. I talk better than I type.) 1-24-12 Lesson of the Day: Patience The first day of any new job is always exciting and nerve racking. It was made a little easier here at Yamaha because of all the interaction I had via email and telephone with Jennifer and Christina. Everyone was incredibly patient and helpful which eased the tension of moving to a new city to start a job. I’m saying the lesson of the day is patience because there was a lot of things that happened in a what seemed to be a small span of time. For example the...