{"id":31055,"date":"2016-02-12T23:45:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T03:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=31055"},"modified":"2016-02-12T23:45:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T03:45:58","slug":"nadia-sirota-advice-for-musicians-just-out-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=31055","title":{"rendered":"Nadia Sirota: Advice for Musicians Just Out of School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re just out of school \u2013 what do you do now? Super-commissioner, violist, and radio host Nadia Sirota offers her advice for what young, aspiring musicians should be doing for a healthy career (and for one&#8217;s sanity).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notedendeavors.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21682\" alt=\"Noted Endeavors\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Noted_Endeavors_Logo_Small_Musical_America.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a>\u201cA one-woman contemporary-classical commissioning machine\u201d (Pitchfork), violist Nadia Sirota is best known for her singular sound and expressive execution, coaxing works and collaborations from the likes of Nico Muhly, Dan\u00edel Bjarnason, Valgeir Sigur\u00f0sson, Judd Greenstein, Marcos Balter, and Missy Mazzoli. Her debut album\u00a0<em>First Things First<\/em>\u00a0(New Amsterdam Records) was named a record of the year by\u00a0<em>The New York Times,<\/em>\u00a0and her follow-up\u00a0<em>Baroque (<\/em>Bedroom Community and New Amsterdam) has been called \u201cbeautiful music of a higher order than anything else you will hear this year\u201d by SPINMedia website PopMatters.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Nadia:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nadiasirota.com\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">nadiasirota.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Noted Endeavors videos, go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"notedendeavors.com\">notedendeavors.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ezD__2Lo33g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:34px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=31055\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re just out of school \u2013 what do you do now? Super-commissioner, violist, and radio host Nadia Sirota offers her advice for what young, aspiring musicians should be doing for a healthy career (and for one&#8217;s sanity). \u201cA one-woman contemporary-classical commissioning machine\u201d (Pitchfork), violist Nadia Sirota is best known for her singular sound and expressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3273],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31341,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055\/revisions\/31341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}