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Mastering Your Anxiety

by Daniela Candillari “You can reduce your anxiety somewhat by facing the fact that there isn’t a mechanic alive who doesn’t louse up a job once in a while.  The main difference between you and the commercial mechanics is that when they do it you don’t hear about it – just pay for it, in [...]

Overcome Performance Anxiety with ‘Alexander Techniques’

With the holiday’s in full swing, many of us are performing at those annual, popular seasonal events in addition to managing everything else that comes along with this time of year. So, the last thing we need to deal with is performance related pitfalls. It is for this reason that Alexander Technique instructor, Heidi Brende Leathwood’s [...]

Care and Feeding of the Singer

by Bonnie Draina Singers are unique among musicians in that our instrument is our self. On the plus side, we don’t have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to acquire an instrument; on the other hand, we must consider the health of our instrument in daily life. How would you sing when you are [...]

Know Thyself – One & Two

by Lucia D’Ambrosio Performing can be a very stressful and frustrating thing to do for musicians. It is easy to start worrying too much about pleasing the audience and about other exterior factors that we forget to concentrate and become the music while performing. After taking a performance psychology class, I became aware of multiple [...]

Eliminating FEAR through Practice & Meditation

by Richard Slavich No one would argue with the idea that the musician finds daily musical sustenance in practicing. As Dr. Suzuki reminds us, we need to practice “only on the days we eat.” But what about our diet? Can we make our practice hour more “meaty”, more productive? Some perspective can be gained by [...]