Auditions & Career

Choosing a Summer Program – A Practical Guide

With so many summer program options available, how can you possibly know which one is best for you? Ann Baltz brings you a step-by-step evaluation and guide to help you

Feb 28 CS

Suffer for Your Art? The Sacrifices in Following Your Dreams

Confucius said, “Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.” For the majority of singers, this is precisely why we do what we

Feb 25 Dr. Michelle Latour

Practicing 101 Ten Tips for Making the Most of Your Time between Lessons

Dean Southern, a singer and voice professor who started out as a pianist shares insights on the how-to’s of effective practicing. Find out how to make the most of those

Feb 07 CS

Interview Panic

In helping people prepare for the real thing, the mock (practice) job interview is the recommended tool. The trick is to do the mock interview, though, with someone who

Jan 27 Angela Myles Beeching

Formula for a Killer Recital Program

“You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.” Tom Hopkins It’s not often that we have the pleasure

Jan 23 Carol Kirkpatrick

Visualization Techniques

“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging

Jan 09 Carol Kirkpatrick

5 Audition Tips from the Other Side

As a singer turned artist manager, I have grown comfortable experiencing auditions from the other side of the table. Here are some tips. The audition starts within a one-block

Dec 10 Auditions Plus

Necessary Performance Equipment

“A lot of the students have gotten the message that the song is as much about the text as the music. But sometimes they interpret the text by itself, not

Oct 29 Carol Kirkpatrick

Tis' the Season! (for auditions)

“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson I have been adjudicating many auditions like the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Auditions plus many others for

Oct 22 Carol Kirkpatrick

Mental Preparation for Auditions

Perhaps singers should heed Abraham Lincoln’s famous quotation, “You can please some of the people some of the time . . . but you can never please all of the

Oct 18 CS

Fred Astaire’s Career & YOU

In a recent article on two new books about Fred Astaire (NY Review of Books, “They’re the Top“), Arlene Croce closes with this summary of his extraordinary career, writing that

Oct 09 Angela Myles Beeching

Practice, Practice, Practice: The Know-How to Make it Happen

I vividly remember my early practice sessions as a young singer. I started my musical endeavors with flute in fourth grade and piano the following year. I did not discover

Sep 18 Dr. Michelle Latour