Berklee College of Music and Kobalt announce partnership

Berklee College of Music has announced a partnership with Kobalt.
Kobalt, a technology company that provides rights owners with a transparent way to track their income from digital platforms around the world, has agreed to provide Berklee’s Rethink music initiative with a two-year grant to continue its operations.

Rethink Music is a student-led project started in 2010 that has already organised a number of events in Boston and in Berlin. Its aim is to bring music stakeholders together to discuss future business models.

On top of the two-year grant, Kobalt is providing a $10,000 merit-based scholarship to songwriting majors at Berklee, which will be named after a different Kobalt songwriter every year.

Kobalt’s CEO Willard Adhritz stated: “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.”

This is the second education-oriented story of the week, after the news of the partnership between Stanford University and Warner Music.


(Andrea Leonelli)