By Jonathan Blalock of Encompass Arts Classical singing seems like a horribly egocentric endeavor. In one way it’s true. As a musician, I am the instrument. Over the past few
By Angela Myles Beeching Yep, it’s that time of year again: the season of overspending and overeating–a frenzy of shopping, travel, relatives, frantic work deadlines, played out against a
By Carol Kirkpatrick, author of ARIA READY, The Business of Singing What criteria might you use to determine if it’s time to change career directions? This is only occasionally
By Jonathan Blalock, Encompass Arts Singing is not for the faint of heart. A person’s voice is more than laryngeal mechanics. It’s an existential expression of one’s soul. The
By Mark Stoddard, author of Marketing Singers, a business and marketing guidebook written specifically for singers. For a true singer, singing is life and as essential as breathing. That
By Angela Peterson Winter Let’s face it, rejection stinks! But it’s also inevitable. And, it turns out, the one thing that can keep rejection from sinking its painful talons
By Angela Myles Beeching This week I’m re-appreciating a great life lesson I received years ago from my good friend and colleague Michael Gaskins. We used to work together
By Mark Stoddard, author of Marketing Singers, a business and marketing guidebook written specifically for singers. No amount of good marketing advice can improve a bad product. Marketing only gets
By Carol Kirkpatrick, author of ARIA READY, The Business of Singing First let me say that failure can be an important part of the process of success. Why?? Because
By Mark Stoddard, author of Marketing Singers, a business and marketing guidebook written specifically for singers. As you go about your business of singing, and seek to understand from
By Carol Kirkpatrick, author of ARIA READY, The Business of Singing “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When
By British tenor, blogger, and author Christopher Gillett. Getting work abroad in the first place is pretty difficult unless you have an agent. That certainly always used to be
