By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Since this will be my final Ask Edna blog post of the season, I thought it might be appropriate to offer some suggestions regarding how young musicians might want to use any extra time they might have over the summer. I contacted a number of […]
Read the rest of this article »By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Adam Schoenberg is a very gifted young composer with a knack for building relationships. He first entered my life early in 2011, shortly after I started writing this blog. He wrote me a lovely e-mail, saying that there were things he wanted to “Ask Edna” […]
Read the rest of this article »By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Anyone who has read my blog over the past year knows that I am fascinated by the career trajectories of successful people. This week, I have chosen to spotlight a much admired viola professor. My first introduction to Barbara Westphal was in the early 1980’s […]
Read the rest of this article »By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. ‘Tis the season to perform in a competition. A little over two weeks ago, the American Pianists Association announced that pianist Sean Chen is the winner of the 2013 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship, valued at over $100,000. As I write this column, 63 candidates are […]
Read the rest of this article »By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. In the past few weeks, I was pleased to be invited twice to speak to students at the Juilliard School. My first visit was to performance psychologist Dr. Noa Kageyama’s Performance Enhancement class and the second was to Assistant Dean Dr. Barli Nugent’s Career Development […]
Read the rest of this article »By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Caroline Shaw is a typical 21st century musician, except that she just won the Pulitzer Prize in Music – at 30 years of age, the youngest recipient ever of this prestigious award. Her remarkable prizewinning a cappella piece, Partita for Eight Voices, was written for […]
Read the rest of this article »By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. If you ask anyone in the artist management business how things are going these days, they will tell you that everything seems harder than it used to be. Some concert series have ceased to exist or have been significantly cut back, a number of orchestras […]
Read the rest of this article »By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Dear Edna: First, thanks for your blog. I recommend it to folks all the time! And here’s my latest question: I was wondering if you could give us your perspective on what makes an effective musician’s publicity video – for both soloists and ensembles? I’ve […]
Read the rest of this article »By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. I recently had the pleasure of attending one of Chamber Music America’s very informative, helpful and free “First Tuesdays” workshops which focus on a different professional development topic each month. This particular one, which was called “The Art of the Cold Call”, was expertly led […]
Read the rest of this article »By: Edna Landau Dear Edna: I am Associate Professor of Piano at a university music school in the U.S. and enjoy reading your blog very much. I also encourage my students to read it. For a number of years, I have been researching piano compositions written by female composers and I have now collected enough […]
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