The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music offers a course of study leading to a Bachelor of Fine Arts that is designed to educate students in all aspects of contemporary recorded music, with a special focus on the art of identifying musical talent and developing creative material within the complex range of recorded music technologies. The program, the first of its kind in the country, recognizes the creative record producer as an artist in his or her own right and musical recording itself as a creative medium.
Chief Adviser to the Department
Clive Davis has acquired a legendary reputation for spotting and developing new musical talent in the course of his 37 years in the recording industry. Successively head of Columbia Records, Arista, and, most recently, J Records, Mr. Davis has signed and nurtured such performers as Janis Joplin; Blood, Sweat & Tears; Santana; Billy Joel; Bruce Springsteen; Aerosmith; Whitney Houston; Patti Smith; and Alicia Keys. He won a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 2000 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
Mr. Davis has long been an advocate of high professional standards in the recorded music industry and has taken a keen personal interest in the establishment of a program in recorded music at the Tisch School of the Arts. We are proud to inaugurate this year the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music.
