A lecture/workshop for college students
Entrepreneurship...the Career You Never Knew You Wanted
OVERVIEW
"I'm going to be a music major!"
"Cool. So what are you going to do after you graduate?"
"........."
The 21st century poses many challenges for the music major. To ensure success, one must prepare for all of the roles that s/he will assume once entering the daunting real-world of the music business. To be fair, even the most focused and driven student who desperately wants that job in an orchestra will need to find other work after graduating while preparing, practicing, and performing multiple auditions.
In the meantime, what an individual usually realizes is that there is much more to ensuring success than just practicing. Even more importantly, there will be many new and hidden talents unveiled that are part of our creative brains!
As musicians and performers , we all have skills within us that will need to be capitalized on for a successful career in music. We need to be: players, thinkers, teachers, business managers, marketers, website developers, graphic designers, public relations experts, the list goes on and on.
So what happens when we lay the groundwork and open all of the doors to possibility? Anything. If I had been told as an undergraduate student who had zero interest in playing chamber music at the New England Conservatory that it would become a central focus in my career and I would go on to run a serious chamber music program for advanced students, I would have LAUGHED! It was something I certainly didn't realize I would have ever wanted, but it is something I can now never live without.
PRESENTATION
This interactive lecture/workshop stimulates students to think outside of the box, realize/capitalize on their additional individual assets, and reinforces the notion that a career begins much earlier than graduation.
It lasts about 100 minutes and leaves a 20 minute reserve for a Q&A session.
For more information or scheduling , please email: [email protected]
OVERVIEW
"I'm going to be a music major!"
"Cool. So what are you going to do after you graduate?"
"........."
The 21st century poses many challenges for the music major. To ensure success, one must prepare for all of the roles that s/he will assume once entering the daunting real-world of the music business. To be fair, even the most focused and driven student who desperately wants that job in an orchestra will need to find other work after graduating while preparing, practicing, and performing multiple auditions.
In the meantime, what an individual usually realizes is that there is much more to ensuring success than just practicing. Even more importantly, there will be many new and hidden talents unveiled that are part of our creative brains!
- Are you an expert "practicer"? Guess what. That means you are teaching yourself extremely well and there may just lie in you a phenomenal teacher.
- Are you a devoted chamber music player because you like the tightknit working environment? You might just have the highly desired interpersonal and communication skills needed to be part of a creative team running an organization or ensemble.
- Does creating that music phrase on the small and large scale come so naturally to you that others weep at your playing? Then you know how to sell your ideas in different mediums and you might just have some excellent Marketing skills.
As musicians and performers , we all have skills within us that will need to be capitalized on for a successful career in music. We need to be: players, thinkers, teachers, business managers, marketers, website developers, graphic designers, public relations experts, the list goes on and on.
So what happens when we lay the groundwork and open all of the doors to possibility? Anything. If I had been told as an undergraduate student who had zero interest in playing chamber music at the New England Conservatory that it would become a central focus in my career and I would go on to run a serious chamber music program for advanced students, I would have LAUGHED! It was something I certainly didn't realize I would have ever wanted, but it is something I can now never live without.
PRESENTATION
This interactive lecture/workshop stimulates students to think outside of the box, realize/capitalize on their additional individual assets, and reinforces the notion that a career begins much earlier than graduation.
It lasts about 100 minutes and leaves a 20 minute reserve for a Q&A session.
For more information or scheduling , please email: [email protected]