Loyola’s Department of Music Industry Studies is hosting their annual Senior Pitch Competition on Tuesday, April 30 at 6 p.m. in the Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall. Seniors in the department will be showing their entrepreneurial knowledge and pitching business plans to be judged by a panel that includes three guest judges. The guest judges are PledgeMusic founder Benji Rogers, Swedish entrepreneur and founder of Musichelp Peter Astedt and Billy O’Connell, an independent music professional and instructor of music industry studies at Loyola. Students will pitch a variety of ideas, including apps and artist service companies. The first, second and third place winners will receive cash awards.
