This dissertation is a presentation of a cross-disciplinary Chamber Music Entrepreneurship (CME) curriculum. The CME curriculum aims to develop essential skills, behaviors, and characteristics associated with the arts entrepreneurial mindset through experiential, collaborative, and mentor-guided learning environments afforded by the traditional chamber music classroom. The curriculum is compiled of entrepreneurship modules that are intended to supplement traditional chamber music study as a method of imbuing arts entrepreneurship education through existing music curricula. The CME curricular framework aims to create a trans-disciplinary platform through the teaching of content that exercises both entrepreneurial skills and musical acumen. The curriculum includes a compilation of handouts, reading assignments, homework activities, online resources, in-class activities and games, student presentation frameworks, as well as community engagement and performance project frameworks.
Current scholarship in the field is engaged in an ongoing discourse about curricular design, intended learning outcomes, and relevant course content for arts entrepreneurship curricula. Such discourse also contains arguments that weigh the balance of creating curricula borrowed from traditional business school practices versus curricula rooted in a discipline-specific arts context. The CME curriculum presents a discipline-specific approach toward the teaching of music entrepreneurship through the chamber music learning environment. The content, source material, and learning outcomes presented in this curriculum are derived from current scholarship on entrepreneurship education in the arts, the entrepreneurial mindset, and principles of Intellectual Entrepreneurship as well as scholarship and pedagogic approaches utilized by notable art practitioners and institutions. The CME curriculum provides a student-centric method of learning and teaching entrepreneurial habits of mind that many educators deem essential for navigating the 21st-century arts ecosystem.