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Start Local All careers are built from the ground up: everyone starts small and local. So if you’re launching a new program or a new ensemble, or if you’ve moved to

To book more performances, consider your programming. It’s more important than you may realize. Think about it from a concert series presenter’s point of view. Booking a relatively unknown artist to

If you’re considering a nose job, for medical or cosmetic reasons, find out what you really need to know as a singer.

Building a singing career requires financial investments just like any other company or business entity. Find ideas on how to make your money stretch while also learning necessary new skills.

Consider seven misunderstandings concerning the causes and cures for performance anxiety.

Take a moment to learn more about the man and meaning behind the beloved art song “Do Not Go, My Love.”

Fashion designer Taylor Mills has a new line of clothes created especially for the classical singer. Here she shares how the idea for the line came about, her creative process behind the designs, and how she hopes the clothing will best serve singers.

An increased vocal range is a major aim for all singers. But with an instrument that is physically internal, it can be confusing as to how to achieve this. These principles will help you identify obstacles that may be causing limitations or impairing coordination.

Rejection is tough at any stage of a singing career. Determination coupled with hard work can shed a valuable light on these trying moments.

With recent debuts at Glyndebourne and Covent Garden, Joyce El-Khoury is making a name for herself as a versatile soprano who can bring her characters—big or small—to life. Her path to stardom has been neither easy nor typical, with many detours and delays along the way—like during years of being bullied as a child or when she applied to graduate schools but only got accepted to one and without scholarships. Always one to step up to the plate, El-Khoury has used her self-described grit and hard work to turn seeming setbacks to her advantage—and there’s no holding her back now.

As I reviewed the articles for this issue, the word “grit” stood out in several of them, and my brain sat up and paid attention. Merriam Webster describes the noun

Be prepared to act, and not be acted upon. That was my message to a group of singers and teachers at Tulane University last Friday as we took an hour