The semester is just starting, but now is the time to think about, and plan for, summer! Whether this is the year to audition for a summer festival, take on a resume-building internship, or work and build up your bank account the OECD can help. JSoM students are in demand, and our partners keep us… Read more »
Marching Hundred season is wrapping up and Nutcracker season is right around the corner. Here in the OECD, we’re preparing for the most wonderful time of the year…Innovation Competition season! This year, teams will compete for $3,000 in prize money – the highest awards yet! Watch for more details coming soon about timelines, workshops, resources,… Read more »
By popular demand, the Brownbag Lunch Series, “What I Didn’t Learn in Music School” returns! This semester we feature faculty new to the Jacobs School of Music, and ask them to riff on their music, their careers, and lessons learned along the way. Our first featured guest is jazz saxophonist and composer Greg Ward. In… Read more »
With a major shout-out to Career Specialist and all-around good guy Nathan Fischer, the OECD is pleased to announce a relaunch of our resource site in Canvas: JSoM Career Development 2.0. The new site is streamlined and reorganized to bring you the most-requested and most-relevant information – at a glance and in 2 clicks. 2.0… Read more »
As musicians, we spend a LOT of time in the practice room. But at some point we must shift our focus from technique and repertoire and begin to think about where we’re going with all this (and how we’re going to get there). It’s important to engage in some self-reflection: Why are you here at… Read more »