Recorded Music
 | Errol Kolosine |
Courses
Entrepreneurship: Developing the Music Business Venture
Music Marketing
Education
B.A. Political Science/English, Florida State University
Biography
Errol Kolosine was born in Hackney, England, where his love of music first began. By age 9, however, Kolosine’s family had relocated to the cultural desert of Florida, USA.After surviving by playing in bands and obsessing over music throughout his youth, Kolosine began his career in the “business” in college radio, where he was music director, as well as local music producer and engineer, for WVFS in Tallahassee, FL. He also earned degrees in Political Science and English at Florida State University, and served a stint in Florida state government working as a Press and Communication Officer.
Leaving behind government work and finishing school in 1994, Kolosine took a job in Promotion at New York-based (Virgin and eventually EMI owned) independent record label Caroline/Astralwerks. Over the subsequent 14 plus years, Kolosine rose to General Manager in 1999 and oversaw all elements of the label’s promotion, identity and A & R. Kolosine's Astralwerks’ successes boasts a long list of innovative, top selling, Grammy winning and international artists, including Air, The Beta Band, Beth Orton, The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Ben Folds Five (on Caroline) and many others.
He has worked closely with some of the most critically acclaimed and popular artists in today’s music scene and worked extensively in the areas of soundtracks, licensing, branding, sponsorships and new media initiatives. Kolosine also received an Executive Producer Grammy Nomination for the critically acclaimed soundtrack “Six Feet Under”.
Since leaving Astralwerks in April of 2007, Kolosine has been acting as Futurist for The Chemical Brothers, managing Beth Orton, producing the soundtrack to popular NBC show “Heroes” and consulting an array of artists and labels.
