New Music Seminar

New Music Seminar
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Frequency	Year-round events
Venue	New Yorker Hotel and Various Live Music Venues in NYC
Location(s)	New York City, New York, United States
Years active	20
Founded	1980–1995, 2009–present
Founder	Tom Silverman, Mark Josephson, Danny Heaps, Scott Anderson
People	Tom Silverman: Founder & Executive Director
Website
newmusicseminar.com

The New Music Seminar (NMS) is a Music Conference and Festival held annually each June in New York City. The New Music Seminar originally ran from 1980 – 1995 and was relaunched in 2009. NMS features over 150 CEOs, Presidents, Executives, and leaders in the emerging music business along with over 100 artist performances. The mission of the New Music Seminar is to grow a sustainable and better music business to allow creators the best opportunity to succeed. The NMS strives to enable more artists to achieve success and encourages new levels of investment in music and artists

In 2012, NMS hosted the first New York Music Festival in collaboration with the New York City Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment declaration of the city’s first New York Music Week. The festival took place in 17 venues throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.

New Music Seminar 2015 took place June 21-23 in New York City.

In June 1980, Tom Silverman, Mark Josephson, Danny Heaps, and Scott Anderson brought 220 people together at a New York City rehearsal studio to discuss challenges in the music business. The event grew in subsequent years to act as a catalyst for change in the music business. The New Music Seminar added music showcases and a festival, initially called "New York Nights" and later, "New Music Nights." These were held in various New York City clubs. At its peak, the first series of seminars attracted more than 8,000 participants from 35 countries.

Haoui Montaug was Panel Director of the NMS at the time of his 1991 death. Following his death the NMS inaugurated the Haoui Montag New Music Awards in his honour.

In 2009, the New Music Seminar was relaunched by Tom Silverman and former New Music Seminar staffer Dave Lory.

The New Music Seminar returned as a one-day event in the 2009 summer on July 21. It was an event that created the template for music conferences by combining business and shows.The New Music Seminar, was held at the New York University Steinhardt's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. The program consisted of a keynote, four educational sessions on how to combine new and old methods with technology for career success, and an artist's showcase.