Breathing is the foundation of good singing. Are you doing everything you can to ensure your breath fully prepares you to make the most beautiful sound possible? If not, what is holding you back? Find out that and more here.
While wrapping up this December issue and collecting photos of 2014 highlights from summer programs for our upcoming January issue, I received a panicked e-mail from a program director. “Burning
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 Mark Stoddard, author of Marketing Singers, a business and marketing guidebook written specifically for singers. Many books have been published on the many studies on the lives of
By Carol Kirkpatrick, author of ARIA READY, The Business of Singing When someone in our industry talks about musical style, just what do they mean? It is easy to
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
According to the Deutscher Buhnenverein, the association of German theaters and orchestras, there are 130 opera houses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, almost twice as many per capita than in
By Carol Kirkpatrick, author of ARIA READY, The Business of Singing Watch your thoughts; they lead to attitudes. Watch your attitudes, they lead to words. Watch your words; they
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
Have you ever wondered why some singers who win competitions and land coveted Young Artist spots in their 20s fail to have long-term, successful careers? Faulty vocal technique, exposed when the larynx matures and ossifies, just might be the culprit. Learn how to troubleshoot your own vocal technique to ensure this doesn’t happen to you.
Cultivating a business and nurturing a child have a lot in common. Lessons learned from parenting can help you grow your business.
