Jorge Brea and Director of Marketing Janette Berrios, the CEO and Director of Marketing for Symphonic Distribution, return to educate St. Petersburg College’s music students and community members about How to Make Money off Your Music, the second of this term’s three-part Speaker Series.
The event takes place on Thursday, March 30, in Room HS-117, at the St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus.
Symphonic Distribution leads discussion
Symphonic Distribution is a Tampa-based distribution company. It offers a wide array of services to musicians ranging from custom marketing to distribution assistance.
Career Outreach Specialist Rosaria Pipitone invited representatives from the company to return and present for their second Speaker Series appearance. “This is vital information emerging artists should know about their next steps in the music industry,” she said.
Brea, the Founder and CEO of Symphonic Distributions, started his career in the music industry at 16 as a DJ/producer. Now Symphonic Distribution has distributed 400,000 albums for more than 7,000 record labels worldwide. The company ahs offices in Tampa, New York City and Pakistan. Berrios, the Director of Marketing for Symphonic Distribution, is a passionate advocate for women in the music business.
Brea and Berrios’ presentation will focus on introducing music students and those looking to get into the profession to music distribution techniques and generating revenues. That will include a look at CD sales and streaming and music downloading to such brands as Apple Music, Spotify and Napster (formerly known as Rhapsody).
Skills to succeed in the music industry
This Speaker Series event offers a series of workshops intended to assist students and musicians with employability skills needed to succeed in the music industry.
For more information, please contact Rosaria Pipitone at Pipitone.rosaria@spcollege.edu or read the Arts, Humanities and Design blog.
Here is information on upcoming and past speakers featured during SPC’s Spring 2017 term:
