Bring your love of music and we’ll provide focused, creative training in the recorded media in the midst of one of America’s acclaimed schools of music.
The program seeks a limited number of experienced producers and engineers who display advanced skills in recording, production, and associated technology. Studio production faculty develop producers who can ultimately work within a wide spectrum of musical genres with expertise, awareness, and understanding of each genre’s subtleties and traditions and with sharply honed technological, musical, and business skills.
The program’s merit has been proven time and again by the artistic success of our alumni and current students, many of whom maintain active professional careers while still attending classes.
The Distinctive Hallmarks of the Production Program
- hands-on studio experience
- thorough training in most modern and classical musical genres from hip-hop to Mozart
- small-group study with professional producers
- music theory and musicianship for producers
The Six Major Areas of Study
- production and composition
- musicianship and history
- studio technology
- professionally related electives
- comprehensive training in the liberal arts
- comprehensive training in the business of music
Listen Here
Take a listen to this Spotify playlist featuring alumni and current students of the Music and Technology Department who have played instruments on, sung backing vocals for, produced, mixed or mastered these recordings.
Requirements
In order to graduate, all producers must conceive and produce two significant original projects: a Junior Production and a Senior Production. These can be either recorded or performed live. All productions require extensive preparation and documentation, and are regarded and critiqued by the faculty. Many Junior and Senior Productions feature multimedia collaborations with the other Purchase College arts conservatories.
And More
Studio production at Purchase features a stellar faculty, a finely-tuned curriculum, close associations with both a renowned classical conservatory and a vibrant jazz studies program, as well as superior professional career and internship opportunities in nearby New York City.
It also functions closely with studio composition, and collaborative accomplishment between these two programs is typical in classes, concerts, and recording sessions. But the best aspect of studio production at Purchase College is what the students themselves have made of it—a friendly and artistic community whose spirit is the basis for wonderful four-year experience.
Music and Technology Faculty Credits
Music and Technology faculty credits include work for artists such as:
Christina Aguilera
Tony Bennett
Leonard Bernstein
Beyonce
Justin Bieber
James Brown
Johnny Cash
Gary Clark Jr
Kelly Clarkson
Common
50 Cent
Aretha Franklin
Dave Grusin
Guns & Roses
Elton John
Quincy Jones
B.B. King
Diana Krall
John Legend
John Mayer
Madonna
Nas
N’Sync
Rihanna
Run DMC
Paul Simon
Rod Stewart
Shakira
Sting
The Fugees
The Roots
The Spin Doctors
The New York Dolls
The New York Philharmonic
U2
Usher
X Ambassadors
And many more.