This series is divided into five parts: Part 1 – Preface: My Strange Path Through the Music World Part 2 – Building My Freelance Career Part 3 – How Sinking My Freelance Career Helped Me (what you’re reading) Part 4 – Working in Education – What My Career Looked Like...
Before I moved out to San Francisco, I wrote a post titled Unemployment Never Sounded so Sweet. I did a follow-up post in August where I checked in to see how I was doing in terms of meeting these goals. I’m planning on doing this self-evaluation on a regular...
I recently wrote a guest post for Adaptistration about the growing world of classical music podcasts. This is a topic that I’ve been thinking about a lot these past few months. A year ago, there were maybe one or two classical music podcasts. Now there are...
I went through music school with one goal… Get… an… orchestra job! This was my Holy Grail. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The early part of my career is a good example of what happens with someone on that path doesn’t get an orchestra job. This...
I’ve been a proud member of the International Society of Bassists for over 25 years. In my role as Contrabass Conversations podcast host, I am constantly accessing the decades of articles located in the George Vance Online Research Library. I get ideas for guests from...
