TRC Academy Open Enrollment launches August 24th!
TRC Academy Open Enrollment launches August 24th!
Professional recording studios and creative workspaces, at rates artists can actually afford. We've run this model for fifteen years and it works. More than 3,000 people a month come through. And once you're in, there's somewhere to go. You can practice, get trained, start earning, and build a business, all in the same place. We're organizing to keep it here for good.
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Professional studio space in Boston runs $100 an hour or more. For most of the people who need it, the emerging artists, the independent musicians, the producers just starting out, that price is a closed door. Some leave the city. Some make do with worse. Some just stop.
We built a cheaper door. Twenty professional studios at 960 Mass Ave, every room fully equipped, ten to forty dollars an hour. We priced it that way on purpose from the beginning, and that's the only reason it's still standing fifteen years later.
Somewhere along the way we stopped being just a place to record. People started using us as a home base for everything they were building, and we realized we'd become something bigger than a studio. Somewhere you can practice, find your community, learn the business, and put it to work.
We felt community and belonging. And we saw possibility, something that had escaped us as creatives.
That's still what this is. Come record a song. Come build a career. Come be part of something that's organizing to stay.
You can get on it at any point.
Your first session or your thousandth, same rates. Twenty professional studios and rehearsal rooms at 960 Mass Ave. Walk in, book online, or call ahead. No membership, no audition, ten to forty dollars an hour. It's also where you find your people. A room full of other creatives is where collaboration happens on a regular Tuesday.
TRC Academy is a free program in recording, production, and the music business. You learn how to price your work and run yourself like the business you already are. It's built around real industry workflows, and it leads to a certification and the skills to earn from your craft.
This is the part almost no other nonprofit can offer. Finish the Academy and you can start earning that week, in the same building where you trained. Because our space is cheap enough to work out of, a new graduate doesn't have to wait on a job somewhere else to get going.
At 55 Morrissey Blvd in Dorchester, we turned a vacant building into a 35,000-square-foot creative hub. More than 400 independent businesses run out of it now. The rent is low enough that you can try something, have it not work, and try again, which is the one thing traditional retail space never lets you do. We're running the Amplify Boston '26 campaign to make it permanent.
People see a nonprofit and assume charity. Look closer. We own and operate the space ourselves, which means we decide who gets in, what it costs, and whether the doors stay open when the funding climate shifts. And we did something most workforce nonprofits don't. We built the jobs into it.
Most of them teach a skill and then hope somebody else hires the people they trained. Our model doesn't run on that hope. The same cheap space that lets an artist practice is the space they can earn a living out of, so nobody has to wait around to be picked. We've got community partners who hire, and we're glad to have them, but the organization doesn't lean on them to function. The income is built in.
Keeping studios at ten to forty dollars an hour for fifteen years took more than good intentions. We built the whole thing around access from day one, instead of bolting affordability onto something already priced for a different market.
"We're not asking you to fund an experiment. We're asking you to scale what's worked for fifteen years."
When you invest in TRC, you're backing something already proven. The studios are full. The graduates are working. The community at 55 Morrissey is real. What's left to secure is permanence.
For a long time, the deal for creative people was struggle, as if that was just the price of doing the work. It was never the whole truth, and it was never fair.
You don't have to struggle. You just have to understand that you're in business. We don't hand an artist a check and wish them luck. We teach them how to price their work and own their worth, and then we give them the space to prove it. Teach somebody to fish, and they eat for a lifetime.
The audio industry has jobs. It also has an access problem, since most of the ways in run through connections, credentials, or money a lot of talented people were never handed. The Academy is how we change that math.
It's a free program in recording engineering, production, and music business, built around real industry workflows and pointed at something specific: a certification, and a direct line to paid work, a lot of it right here in our own building.
The people who finish are mostly working adults from across Greater Boston, building a career in music on a later timeline than the industry usually rewards. That's who we design for.
47,500 square feet of professional creative workspace across Boston and Dorchester.
Our original location, fifteen years running. Twenty professional studios and rehearsal rooms, open every day. Walk in or book online, same rates either way. Every room fully equipped.
20 Studios · $10–40/hr · Open Daily ExploreA 35,000-square-foot creative hub we built from a vacant building using our own reserves. We opened it in March 2023 without knowing if it would work. It worked. More than 400 independent businesses operate here now. Amplify Boston '26 is raising the funds to make it permanent.
400+ Creative Businesses · 35,000 Sq Ft · Ownership Campaign Active ExploreCome record. Come train. Come get to work. Come build. Come be part of what 3,000 people a month have already found.
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