Is crowdfunding a good idea for finding your way to a summer music program?
Making Summer Music Camps and Programs Affordable
If you already recognize the benefits of attending summer music camps and programs but don't think they're affordable, here are some suggestions.
Music Education: A Balancing Act
Being a teacher can easily seem incompatible with being an artist. If you're considering music education as a career, here are some thoughts and tips to help you live more abundantly in both worlds.
A Career in Choral Conducting
Choral conducting is an exciting and deeply rewarding field. As a career, it offers the chance to serve others, a respectable salary range, and an opportunity for lifelong involvement and learning.
Paid vs. Unpaid Internships
Internships can provide excellent training in many fields of music. They can also lead to job opportunities for students who demonstrate their ability to learn quickly, work well as part of a team.
5 Social Media Tips For Modern Musicians
In many ways, now is the best time to be a musician. Thanks to social media and the internet, you have access to an audience that artists only dreamed of a mere 5 years ago; you have the same distribution channels as the megastars; and you’re not dependent on major media outlets for validation... you can leverage your own social media!
Musicology: A World of Possibilities
Musicology is so broad that it's difficult to define without restricting it. Although many musicologists are also trained in performance, it isn't a performance-oriented field. Instead, musicology focuses on the history and cultural contexts of music.
What Do You Do Before You Perform?
We asked several jazz musicians to tell us what they do right before they get on stage, to prepare themselves to perform at their best. Their responses were surprisingly consistent.
Study Abroad as a Music Major
Study abroad as a musician is a wonderful opportunity. Not only do you get the chance to live and explore within a new culture, you also have the opportunity to work with amazing teachers and musicians that you would not otherwise be able to meet or even study with.
Success in Music – 6 Things People Will Remember about You
Success in music, as in most any field, has a lot to do with what people remember about you. For music majors, the process begins long before you have your degree in hand.
ABC’s of Voice Degrees
College voice degrees - knowing the difference can help a singer choose the right degree for his or her career path.
Music Cognition as a Career Path
Music Cognition is an interdisciplinary field of research that encompasses several areas of study including music, psychology, neuroscience, music therapy, music theory, musicology, computer science and linguistics.
Career Paths in Arts Management
Arts management blends the artistic and business elements of a career in the arts. Depending on where your interests lie, arts management offers many paths.
Anxious Parents of Prospective Music Majors – What You Should Know
As anxious parents of prospective music majors in their senior year of high school, we wonder whether our children are proficient enough on their instruments or not, and we tend to worry about how our children will fare in the college decision process.
Tuition for a Music Major: What’s Included, What’s Not
If you're a music major and your focus is performance or a performance-related area, you will be taking what are called "applied lessons" on your primary instrument (including voice).
How to Prepare for Music Competitions
Music competitions are a regular part of life for many students who plan to go to music school and seek a career in music. Three “realities” of music competitions:
Music Theory: Beyond Boredom
There are three common reasons why students feel apprehensive about learning music theory. They are either intimidated by it, they think it will somehow stifle their creativity, or the study of music theory bores them to death.
Why Wait?
A local plumbing and heating truck passed me as I was taking a walk. Its giant-font logo, adorning its right side, screamed “WHY WAIT?” Obviously, the message referred to the small faucet drip that can mutate without warning into a major, expensive plumbing job. But what if the message were read differently? What if “Why wait?” meant “Why act so fast?” No one likes to miss a good opportunity. And often, opportunities must be pounced on before they disappear. But when does it make sense NOT to immediately jump on something the moment it comes across your screen? Sometimes, the
Career Paths in Sacred Music
Sacred music programs at various colleges and universities offer many opportunities for students interested in pursuing a career in the field.
Who’s Job is it to Teach Instrument Hygiene?
There’s an interesting discussion on one of my LinkedIn music groups about instrument hygiene. Who's job is it to teach this to student musicians?