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Kobalt to support Berklee’s Rethink Music initiative
By Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 19 November 2014
Music rights group Kobalt has announced an alliance with the Berklee College Of Music in Boston, which will see the former provide the latter with a two year grant to fund its Rethink Music initiative to, and I quote, “continue its series of global events and fund a student study in conjunction with Berklee’s newly formed Institute For Creative Entrepreneurship”. So now your know.
Confirming this, Allen Bargfrede, Executive Director of Rethink Music for Berklee College Of Music, told reporters: “We are extremely excited and grateful to be working with Kobalt, a well known as a leader and forward-thinking company in the music space, and this partnership will allow us to continue to pursue our goal of fostering the new music industry. Through our project work in the coming months on technology and transparency, and via our entrepreneurship events, we expect outputs which will both alter the space and create opportunities for Berklee students”.
Meanwhile Kobalt boss Willard Ahdritz said: “We are thrilled to be working together with this prestigious school and their outstanding young students. They are our future! The motives and objectives of Berklee’s Rethink initiative align closely with our own at Kobalt, and I’m confident that the work we are doing together will produce direction and solutions that will help shape the music industry of the future”.
