by Angela Beeching | Sep 10, 2018 | Book More Performances
For most self-managed musicians, booking concerts is an uphill battle. You send emails out and often get no response. So you wonder, what does it take to get it right? While there’s no such thing as the musician’s perfect pitch email, there IS the next...
by Angela Beeching | Jul 30, 2018 | Book More Performances
Let me tell you a story: it’s about a musician, her ego, and her performance résumé. It happened years ago, back when I ran the career center at New England Conservatory. An alum came to see me. To protect the innocent, we’ll call her Kay. A talented and...
by Angela Beeching | Jul 23, 2018 | Book More Performances
As a follow up to last week’s post Wait, Why Do I Make Music?, here’s more help on Building a Better Bio. Can we get real here? The thing I miss most in musicians’ bios is a sense of the real person behind the fog of words. When I read a bio, what I...
by Angela Beeching | Jul 16, 2018 | Book More Performances
In working with musicians on their promotional materials—especially their bios—I’ve found there’s an essential question that they need to ask themselves: Why do you I make music? What’s key is being able to answer this seemingly simple without...
by Angela Beeching | Oct 2, 2017 | Book More Performances, Land the Teaching Job, Peak Performance
In working with musicians on expanding their freelance performance and teaching opportunities, the topic of networking inevitably comes up. And the typical response I hear is: I don’t know anybody who can refer work to me. But of course that’s never the...
by Angela Beeching | Sep 25, 2017 | Book More Performances
A pianist—let’s call him Otto—wrote to me a while back asking for some career advice and we had a conversation by phone. He’d been booking his own recital performances and it was going OK. But Otto wanted to know how to get more concerts at more...
