Music Business

Musicians Institute, in Hollywood, California, offers a comprehensive, hands-on education in contemporary music performance, recording, guitar making, music business and film. If you're serious about your music, your education, and your career, take a look around the site to see what MI has to offer, then contact us for more information about how we can help you reach your goals. Welcome

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Welcome back! Take a look around the site to see what's new at MI, including the improved and expanded 1. Musicians Referral page. Whether you're looking for a gig or other musicians, sign up for MRS today. And if you're living in LA, be sure to come by the Registrar's Office and apply for an Alumni Pass so you can keep using the library and practice facilities on weekends. We're always here to help - visit again soon!

Success comes in all forms- performing, recording, writing, working, teaching, creative growth...whatever your story, we want to hear about it (check out 1. Success Stories and Alumni Notes (below) for news on some of your fellow students and grads).

Email success_stories@mi.edu, including your name (if it's changed since you were a student, be sure to include your name as it would appear on our records), which MI program you attended, when you attended, your current contact information (email and/or phone) and a brief description of what you've been doing. We'll get back in touch with you for more details- MI is proud of its alumni, and we'll keep working to help promote you and your career.

MI grads are working in every area of the music industry all over the world. Here are a few recent notes from far-flung alumni, faculty and staff:

Orlando Rashid (RIT Instructor) is enjoying chart-topping success for his work as mixing engineer on the Jamie Foxx hit, Unpredictable...

Fabio Soares (GIT) backed Latin superstar Gloria Trevi for a recent live concert broadcast on Telemundo...

Jordan Lawhead (GIT/MBP) just signed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV...

Alberto Rizzo Schettino (KIT) sends this update: "1. Oversea Orchestra just released a new CD, Rock In Classic. I've been working side-by-side with the conductor, writing scores, charts, and preparing them for the musicians and conductor himself. The record features original and cover tunes, and the orchestra plays famous pop/rock songs in a classical style. Lots of famous cats in there! It's been exhausting work but also absolutely constructive for learning about scoring, arranging and collaborations between musicians in the ensemble"...

Matt Battle (GIT) writes to say "I graduated from the Bachelor's Progam in 1999 and have been working ever since as a professional musician. Currently, I am producing singers and music for television (The Tom Joyner Show on ABC) and commercials, as well as performing throughout the US with such acts as Heatwave, Wayne Foster Entertainment, Friends of Distinction, and Barbara Lewis, Harold Melvin's Blue Notes and the Intruders. In 2005, my original band Soul Traffic won a Los Angeles Music Award for "Best Live Performance". For more info, check out Matt's website...

Erja Lyytinen (GIT) has signed with the Ruf Records label. The Finnish native is in the midst of a European tour and will be traveling to Memphis this April to record a solo CD. Check out more info on this blues guitar slinger/vocalist/songwriter on her website...

Stacey Quinealty (VIT) and his band Carbon 9 are profiled in a recent article about up-and-coming bands in LA's Daily News. They will be performing at a post-Grammy event...

Ken Jaquess (BIT) reports that Book of the Dead, the new CD by K2 (Prog Rock Records) has been getting rave notices. Joining Ken on the CD are progressive rock luminaries Allan Holdsworth (guitar), Ryu Okumoto (keys)of Spock's Beard, violinist Yvette Devereaux and vocalist Shaun Guerin. Ken adds, "Attending