You will be supported all year by an educational coordinator dedicated to the program and by instructors who, while having the technical expertise required for this training role, are professionals in the contemporary music sector and know its environment perfectly.
The educational content, focused on hands-on practice and individual support during and after the program, geared toward job placement, career change, and the formalization of a professional path, draws on the network of professionals built around IESA.

THE PROGRAM

Program overview

  • Production and distribution of festivals, tours, or recorded music media
  • Overview and history of contemporary music: musical movements, players, economics, labels
  • Funding and partnership search (sponsorship, crowdfunding, sponsors, grants…)
  • Communication and marketing: press relations, website, social media, newsletter, mastery of desktop publishing tools
  • Sociology of audiences and cultural mediation
  • Accounting and taxation
  • Management and personnel administration
  • Artists' career management
  • Workshop on writing professional documents in English: production files, technical sheets, contracts, press releases
  • Legal framework: copyright, insurance…
  • European cultural policies and developing an international project
  • Job search tools

The internship calendar and assignments

> Full-time internship of 2 to 6 months at the end of the program

TITLE VALIDATION

Title validation

  • A summary file: a case study on a production to be set up - topic provided 5 weeks before the jury presentation
  • An individual defense (1 hour) before a jury of music industry professionals - a file of 10 to 15 pages
  • 3 written exams in the form of case studies: 3 hours in management/production, 2 hours in the legal environment, 1 hour on Europe and international matters (legislative, fiscal, European cultural policy (total 1.5 days))
30
participations in culturaland artistic events per year
500
partners (companies, cultural institutions, local authorities…)

Program objectives

Do you dream of managing and developing groups or artists? Of organizing a festival or managing a venue’s programming? Do you want to join a record company or label? To produce an album? This 6-month professional program will let you quickly give shape to your career plan!

  • Learn to implement an artistic proposal and monitor its material, human, and financial resources while respecting the planned budget
  • Know the different stages of producing a music project
  • Develop your professional skills in management, law, organization, and communications
  • Learn to work as a team with various internal and external contacts
  • Learn to act and adapt in varied and unfamiliar situations

This program leads to IESA’s Production Manager title.

Skills

  • Position the music project within an aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political environment
  • Organize the production process
  • Monitor the budget and take part in legal management
  • Manage the logistical dimensions and work with the technical teams
  • Lead an audiovisual project connected to the music project: web video and mini live recording

How to Join the Program

Prerequisites

Candidates are selected based on three prerequisites:

  • The program is designed as an adult continuing professional education program. It is therefore essential that, upon entry, the candidate can demonstrate a minimum of two years of experience in the cultural sector (salaried or volunteer) or in another field of activity that allows skills transfer,
  • The program must fit into a project thought through for and by the candidate
  • The production manager position is closely tied to the artistic worlds. Consequently, candidates will be expected to have proven knowledge of, or sensitivity to, the worlds of music and entertainment, along with general knowledge or at least curiosity and openness to society.

Funding

  • Training plan
  • Professionalization period
  • Pôle Emploi
  • Contrat de Sécurisation Professionnelle (CSP)
  • Personal Training Account (CPF)
  • Personal funding

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Our Alumni Share Their Stories

Klara Sedova

photo étudiante - Klara Sedova

“I was able to gain a very global view of the production officer profession and the music market in a very short time.”

At the end of the Contemporary Music Production Manager program, students have the skills needed to enter the professional music sector. Learn more about career entry after the Contemporary Music Production Manager program.