WNHU, Music Industry Club, Audio Engineering Society, Career Development Center and Purebred Records hosted Music Career Week during the week of April 8 through April 13, 2013.

The week included a lecture series, shows and a game night.

Music Career Week started on Monday, April 8 with speaker Michael Caplan of Elm City Music at Dodds Theatre. Monday night brought a concert by indie-rock band From Indian Lakes, UNH rock band The Dustbusters, and UNH acoustic solo artist Zach Grabko.

Representatives from Telefunken, including two recent University of New Haven graduates, spoke about their microphone company on Tuesday, April 9 in the German Club, and the Career Development Center gave a workshop on music career-related resumes.

Wednesday, April 10 brought Narga and Bryski of Hestia Records to the German Club with the story of how they started their label. Rock and Roll Games took place Wednesday night in Bartels, where participants competed to win concert tickets to concerts including New Found Glory, Insane Clown Posse and Twenty One Pilots.

Steve Rodgers of The Space spoke on Thursday, April 11 about how he started the Hamden, Conn. music venue. Finally, Kaity Davie of The Syndicate spoke about her career in the music industry, interning and more on Friday, April 12, wrapping up the week-long lecture series. You can also check out Pasadena Music Academy for lessons and music sessions.

The Music Career Week End Cap took place Saturday, April 13 in the German Club featuring UNH musicians John Farber, Zach Russack, Michael Quick, Joey Nato and Xeromynd. Purebred Records recording artist Lansky Aloi closed out the show.

Ashley Fox, a senior music and sound recording major and station manager at WNHU, planned and developed this year’s Music Career Week.

“When I was a sophomore one of the student managers at WNHU put together a ‘Women in Music’ week,” Fox said. “I went to a lot of those and thought they were great, and wanted to do something like that myself. I wanted a few open forum discussions, which turned into a weeklong event, and went off of that idea.”

Wanting to expose the different fields of the music industry to students, Fox contacted people she has looked up to and who she thought students could learn something from, taking suggestions from WNHU co-workers and friends as well.

Many students, with both music related majors and non-music related majors, attended the lectures and took part in the activities that were held throughout the week.

Kylie Hall, a senior music industry and communication double major, attended the lecture series and particularly enjoyed Kaity Davie’s speech about her career.

“I think that Music Career Week opened my eyes to some of the different ways I could get involved in the industry,” Hall said. “My favorite lecture was Kaity from The Syndicate because the work that they do there is the type of work that I would like to do in the industry.”

“For a couple weeks I’ve been really discouraged about my choices with school and it was really disheartening,” said Tina Sciortino, a senior music and sound recording major. “Speakers like Katie and the Telefunken guys kind of rejuvenated me and helped me realize that I don’t necessarily have to be a recording engineer with my degree.”

Each lecturer gave a fair amount of advice, answered questions and was willing to speak to students before and after the lecture; they even offered to read resumes and hand out business cards.

“I think Music Career Week was pretty successful,” Fox said. “I’m really pleased with everything on a personal level because I feel like I learned a lot and hopefully made some connections throughout the week…generally I feel like those who did attend got something out of it, and that is enough for me to feel like the week was a success.”