A strong teaching bio has to do more than just list your degrees and experience. To be effective, a teaching bio needs to give prospective students a real sense of what it’s like to study with you. This needs to be compelling enough so that they will reach out. To...
Want to immediately improve your marketing materials—so you can book more and better work? If your bio, email pitches, grant proposals, or cover letters could use some help, then this message is for you. Let’s tackle Musician Self-Promotion: 8 tips for editing your...
Here’s my embarrassing (and all too true) Fulbright application story . . . When I was a grad student at Stony Brook University (many moons ago), I wanted to take a year to study in Paris with the cellist Roland Pidoux because I was mad for his chamber music...
Rejection—it’s an inevitable part of life as a professional musician. You fail to advance in an audition round, your grant proposals are turned down, or you experience radio silence in response to your email pitches. Rejection just comes with the territory. The...
I've been thinking lately about Peeling Onions and Writing Teaching Statements. That there are similarities. Ideally, both involve revealing multiple layers while avoiding tears. Writing a teaching philosophy statement is challenging because it's often the first time...
Do you want a better Bio? One that sparks connection and interest, gets readers to click "play," and then hire you? If so, you'll want to use my 5 dynamic Bio prompts. Spoiler alert: your Bio should be more than a boring list of credentials. YOU are more than that....
I received a terrific newsletter a couple of weeks ago. It made such a strong impression that I wanted to share it so that together we can look "under the hood." That way, you can analyze and upgrade your own online communication skills. Here's musician newsletter...
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 resorting to generic or...
MONDAY BYTES — October 24, 2016 Fall is a terrific time to upgrade your promotional materials: it's a new season for grant applications, auditions, and jobs. So this week I've got 10 tips to polish up your performance or composition résumé, the nuts and bolts of how...
MONDAY BYTES —March 14, 2016 If you're going to be in the Boston area, I really hope you'll grab one of the four remaining spots for the Musician's Teaching Philosophy Statement workshop this coming Saturday March 19. I'm so excited to be offering this...
