Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music
A satisfying work life for a successful musician often includes concurrent start-up ventures. This is just one benefit to being a musician: the diversity of ways you can contribute to society.
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Writing Prompts To generate material for your description, try answering these questions: • How would you describe your music to a new acquaintance, someone you wish to invite to an upcoming performance? • How have your mentors or colleagues described any of your particular works, or your work overall? • What you are reaching for in your compositio
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Career Forward Working through these questions will help you move ahead. Writing out your answers will help with thinking through and committing to your goals. 1. How do you define success? 2. What specifically do you love about music? 3. What specifically do you love about being a musician? (This is not the same as question 2.) 4. What is your lon
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“Why can’t the music speak for itself?”
Angela Myles Beeching • Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music
Israeli composer Lior Navok gave a presentation at New England Conserva-tory several years ago and spoke about creativity and motivation. In his talk, Lior described the drive that musicians have—the creative internal fire—and he likened it to a small gold box. It’s something absolutely personal and irreplaceable in each of us, a precious gift that
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Networking is investing in our own artistic community. If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community to build a music career. Nobody does it alone.
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do you see yourself living? What kinds of work are you doing? Is there a family or significant other involved? A garden? Pets? 5. What is your short-term goal? To progress toward your long-term goal, what do you realistically want to accomplish one year from now? 6. What do you want to accomplish this month that will advance you toward your short-t
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Angela Myles Beeching • Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music
The essential challenge for today’s musician is to create a meaningful life’s work and a livable income in a highly competitive, evolving marketplace.