Catherine Fitterman Radbill
Clinical Assistant Professor of Music Business: Director, Undergraduate Music Business Program
Phone: 212 998 5409
Email: catherine.fitterman@nyu.edu
Catherine Fitterman Radbill is the Director of the New York University/Steinhardt School’s Undergraduate Music Business Program. As professor of music business at New York University she teaches music entrepreneurship, concert management, international music business, and the introductory course for music business studies. Fitterman Radbill is active in entrepreneurship education in the field of music. She was a member of the faculty team who successfully secured a $1Million matching grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, to be used for the dissemination of interest and capability in entrepreneurial activity at NYU beyond the confines of the Stern School of Business. A classically trained pianist with degrees in piano pedagogy and arts administration, Fitterman Radbill launched the Entrepreneurship Center for Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1998. She relocated to New York City in August 2002 to begin teaching at NYU. Fitterman's professional experience includes a mix of working and teaching in the arts from both a for-profit and not-for-profit perspective. In addition to her work as a professor, she has served as a concert promoter and producer (University of Colorado), artist manager (Columbia Artists Management), orchestra administrator (Cincinnati Symphony), and major gifts fundraiser (Allied Jewish Federation/Denver and University of Colorado/Boulder).
Degrees Held
- B.M.
East Carolina University
Piano - M.A.
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Performing Arts Administration
Publications
- The Ride of Your Life: Musicians as Entrepreneurs VIDEO (link)
Courses
E85.1229 The International Music Business Marketplace- E85.1226/2512 Concert Management
- E85.0221 Business Structure of the Music Industry
- E85.1216 Entrepreneurship in the Music Industry
- E85.1232 Fieldwork in International Music Business Studies
Research Interests
Entrepreneurial Education International Music Touring