I'm sharing my live challenge with you this week! Listen along to snippets of our daily live sessions: Seeking Work Life Balance for the Working Living Musician!
Today we talked about the money. How to get clear on the outflows, how to stop playing games with the money - and how to optimize your income portfolio to bring you what you want!
If you'd like to join us in the room for the rest of the week, or enjoy the full replays, register HERE for free!
And if anything in these conversations sparks you, book a call and let's talk about what's coming up!
I'm sharing my live challenge with you this week! Listen along to snippets of our daily live sessions: Seeking Work Life Balance for the Working Living Musician!
Today we talked about how hard it can be for us, as musicians, to make our livings and how we all do a million things both artistic and non-. The OPPORTUNITY I see here is that because we are doing so many things, because all of those things are within our power to start and stop, we can CHOOSE to optimize our portfolio to create the life we want, with our own mix of creativity, artistry, financial ease, rest...
If you'd like to join us in the room for the rest of the week, or enjoy the full replays, register HERE for free!
And if anything in these conversations sparks you, book a call and let's talk about what's coming up!
I'm offering a FREE Five Day Challenge starting March 25. Seeking Work-Life Balance, for the WORKING, LIVING Musician. We'll meet on zoom (or you'll enjoy the replay) every day to look at how you could intentionally rebalance your pillars of MONEY, TIME, and JOY and thrive in your creative career!
Today you'll hear my interview with Brendan Slocumb, whose life was changed by the books he wrote during the pandemic!
I read the Violin Conspiracy a year or so ago, on the recommendation of a non-musical friend. When your thriller, based in the world of classical music, is picked up and enjoyed by people outside of our insular little world, and when it has something really important to say about money and family and race and music and about the world we live in now - that is something we should all be paying attention to!
Brendan Nicholaus Slocumb was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in music education, concentrations on Violin and Viola. For the past two decades, he has been a public and private school music educator from kindergarten through twelfth grade, teaching general music, orchestra and guitar ensembles. His students were often chosen for district and regional orchestras. In 2005, Brendan was named Teacher of the Year for Robert E. Lee High School; he has been named to Who’s Who of American teachers, and is a Nobel Teacher of distinction. Brendan also serves as an educational consultant for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Music has always played a major part of Brendan’s life. He believes that it’s a life-saving force, and a gift we should always offer our children. When he was nine, he started playing violin through a public school music program. Friends he grew up with are today sitting in jail; when they were out running the streets, he was in rehearsals. When they were breaking into people’s houses, he was practicing Dvorak and Mozart. His violin opened the door to opportunity, and he ran through it. Since then, Brendan has performed with the Washington Metropolitan Symphony, the McLean Symphony, the Prince George's Philharmonic, and the Alexandria Symphony. He has served as the concertmaster for the NOVA-Annandale Symphony Orchestra and regularly performs chamber music with members of the Alexandria Chamber Music Society. He maintains a private music studio teaching lessons to students on violin, guitar and piano. Brendan believes that everyone can learn to appreciate and love music, and that it can be a new way of communicating, building bonds, and connecting with people who may look, sound, or speak differently.
In 2022, Brendan published his first novel, THE VIOLIN CONSPIRACY (Anchor Books), a GMA Book Club Pick, the riveting story of a young Black musician who discovers that his old family fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius: when it’s stolen on the eve of the world’s most prestigious classical music competition, he risks everything to get it back. In 2023, Brendan published his second novel, SYMPHONY OF SECRETS (Anchor Books), about a music historian who discovers that the world's greatest composer may have stolen the music from a neurodivergent Black woman – and the powers-that-be will do anything to silence the historian. Brendan is now at work on his third novel, to be published in early 2025.
You can find Brendan at his website, or follow him on Instagram @brendanslocumb
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I love performing, but when it comes in a surge like it has this week, it reminds me that the cap exists. This is beyond the maximum amount of time I can spend playing in orchestras. But what if I need more money than this? Or need to have a life that works for ME?
I'm offering a FREE Five Day Challenge starting March 25. Seeking Work-Life Balance, for the WORKING, LIVING Musician. We'll meet on zoom (or you'll enjoy the replay) every day to look at how you could intentionally rebalance your pillars of MONEY, TIME, and JOY and thrive in your creative career!
Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical!
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You can join my email list HERE, so you never miss an episode!
I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. You can read more or hop onto a short discovery call from my website.
I'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there!
It's incredible to speak with Helen Cha-Pyo because she is so filled with joy and wisdom. Her optimism about the next generation of humans is inspiring, as is her mission and story. This is a feel-good episode if I've ever recorded one!
What is YOUR artistic mission statement? You'll want to lean into this question as you listen to Helen's story!
Helen H. Cha-Pyo, the current Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts, leads an organization that serves nearly 2,000 students from 12 New Jersey counties. Her impactful leadership spans across four key programs: the Wharton Performing Arts School, New Jersey Youth Symphony, New Jersey Youth Chorus, and the Paterson Music Project. In her role as the Principal Conductor of the New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS), she has led tours to Italy and France, championing the performance of works by women and BIPOC composers, effectively amplifying the voices of underrepresented composers. Under her guidance, NJYS had the distinguished honor of performing at the Juneteenth Celebration concert at Carnegie Hall (2022) and the Motif Award Ceremony at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (2023).
Prior to her role at Wharton Arts, Cha-Pyo served as Music Director and Conductor of the Empire State Youth Orchestra (ESYO) for 16 years. Her tenure was marked by the orchestra's transformative international tours to Germany, Czech Republic, China, Korea and Portugal. Her dedication to promoting works by American composers earned ESYO the prestigious ASCAP's Adventurous Programming Awards. Her positive impact extended to the founding of ESYO CHIME in 2015, a program dedicated to serving underprivileged youth in Schenectady and Troy, NY. In 2018, ESYO introduced the Helen Cha-Pyo Golden Baton Award and Scholarships to honor students who shared her passion for using music to uplift and enrich communities.
Cha-Pyo's contributions have been recognized with prestigious awards, including The Dove Leadership Award from the David & Dovetta Wilson Scholarship Fund in 2019, and the Angelos Artist Award from the Angelos Mission Ensemble in 2022. She was further honored with the Eastman Centennial Award from the Eastman School of Music in the same year.
You can check out Wharton Arts at its website, or follow Helen Cha-Pyo at her website, Facebook, or Instagram.
Psst - I’m entering my pre-launch phase for the Happiest Musician Accelerator, a three month group program designed to help classical musicians uncap their income and thrive in their creative careers. If you have been feeling like there’s MORE out there for you - but something is keeping you stuck? I’d love to speak with you. I have secret early-enrollment offers that are only available this week and next - email me or hop on a discovery call to find out more.
Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical!
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Psst - I’m entering my pre-launch phase for the Happiest Musician Accelerator, a three month group program designed to help classical musicians uncap their income and thrive in their creative careers. If you have been feeling like there’s MORE out there for you - but something is keeping you stuck? I’d love to speak with you. I have secret early-enrollment offers that are only available this week and next - email me or hop on a discovery call to find out more.
Is it time to CLEAN UP your money conversations? Is it time to GET MORE PAID? Let's all agree to NOT be like my friend's daughter's guitar teacher!
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Whether you are sitting in the orchestra or embarked on any other creative enterprise or business, your reactions to others can influence your own experience and trajectory!
Let's talk about that.
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On the faculty at Princeton for over 45 years, Michael Pratt has built one of the premiere music performance programs in American liberal arts universities. He has conducted instrumental works and opera from five centuries in Princeton and in international halls. He was made a Honorary Member of the Royal College of Music, London by King Charles III and was awarded the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber.
He's recently released a historical fiction romance, The Copyists.
And our conversation about it is LOVELY.
Check out the book on Facebook, too!
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I had a really busy day last week and I played and taught and spoke really well! Am I winning? Or is there something else I need to think about?
(SPOILER: there is!)
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I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. I have one more 1:1 coaching slot available this season. You can read more or hop onto a short discovery call from my website.
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John Jeter has been music director and conductor of the Fort Smith Symphony since 1997. He is the recipient of the Governor’s Award for “Individual Artist of the State of Arkansas”, the Helen M. Thompson Award presented by the League of American Orchestras, and the Mayor’s Achievement Award for services to the City of Fort Smith.
Jeter has guest conducted numerous orchestras in the US and Europe. His music education programs for schools reach up to 10,000 students annually. He is also involved in a growing number of music and wellness projects, and has a long history as a media guest and host.
He’s recently released a new album on Naxos, featuring the music of Louis Wayne Ballard, the first Native American concert composer. His music is wonderful and his life and career make for a fascinating story.
You can listen to the music at the link above. Our conversation touched on numerous topics including diversity in programming, audience development, the difficulties and rewards of rediscovering a composer, and why we all need to be proactive in this!
Follow the Fort Smith Symphony and John Jeter at their website.
Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical!
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You can join my email list HERE, so you never miss an episode!
I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. I have three 1:1 coaching slots available this season. You can read more or hop onto a short discovery call from my website.
I'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there!