About me
Terry Tompkins has been a professional and professor in the music industry for the past 25 years. He began his career as an artist manager and worked as a talent buyer, journalist, record label president, festival organizer, A&R Rep and Professor of Music Industry. Tompkins is currently Program Director and Associate Professor Music Industry at Hofstra University. Tompkins spent five years at Columbia Records working in A&R where he discovered the Grammy Award winning multi-platinum recording artist John Legend. His experience in the touring industry includes talent buying for a prestigious rock club as well as a Showcase Director for the Philadelphia Music Conference, one of the largest music conferences in the United States at the time. Early in his career Tompkins established Big Fish Artist Management and Consulting, managing international artists signed to major and independent labels. Tompkins has been published in the Music and Entertainment Educators Association Journal, The International Journal of Music Business Research and the Journal of Instructional Pedagogies. Tompkins earned a BA from Temple University and MBA at St. Joseph’s University.
