New Music Seminar
The New Music Seminar (NMS) is a music conference and festival held annually each June in New York City. The New Music Seminar originally run from 1980 to 1995 and was relaunched in 2009.
New Music Seminar
Year-round events
New Yorker Hotel and Various Live Music Venues in NYC
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1980–1995, 2009–present
Tom Silverman, Mark Josephson, Danny Heaps, Scott Anderson
Tom Silverman: Founder & Executive Director
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.
History[edit]
1980–95[edit]
In June 1980, Tom Silverman, Mark Josephson, Joel Webber, 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 it. 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.
In 6th August of 1984, the Seminar received the beginner singer and future pop-star, Madonna.
Haoui Montaug was panel director of the NMS at the time of his 1991 death.[1] Following his death, the NMS inaugurated the Haoui Montag New Music Awards in his honor.[2]
2009[edit]
In 2009, the New Music Seminar was relaunched by Tom Silverman and former New Music Seminar staffer Dave Lory.[3]
Similar events[edit]
Since the New Music Seminar's inception, many important music conferences worldwide have been formed, including SXSW, Winter Music Conference, In the City, CMJ and Canadian Music Week.