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...
For the last few months, I’ve been thinking about writing something about music careers. Maybe I’m feeling the itch because I see more people focusing on the hot topic of musical entrepreneurship. I’m not sure. I’ve written about the topic of careers in music quite a...
For the last seven years, I held down a full-time job that obliterated any possibility of attending events like the BASS2016 European Double Bass Congress in Prague. The possibility of sneaking away to Prague for a week was out of the question. How thankful I...
