How to Best Harmonize Your Music School Journey Picture this: the first time you stepped onto a stage, your heart racing with anticipation, your fingers trembling with excitement. That exhilarating moment encapsulates the journey you’re about to embark on—your...
Music, an amalgamation of art and commerce, necessitates a profound understanding of its business dynamics. It’s important for those who are creating music or involved in any aspect of the music business to be fairly knowledgeable about the intricacies of the business...
Unlocking Audition Excellence: Essential Preparation Strategies Preparing for an audition can be both exciting and nerve-wracking, but with the right approach, you can increase your chances of success. Let me break down some of the processes I put into practice when...
The Importance of Music and Social ActionYale UniversityMusic, as you know, plays an important role in most people’s daily lives and is woven into the fabric of society. As musicians, though, we have to ask ourselves if and how we are contributing to serving the...
Mastering the High Register on the Trumpet The Role of Air Compression Playing in the upper register of the trumpet is often seen as a pinnacle of achievement for brass players, particularly for lead trumpet players in jazz and commercial music settings. It requires...
Unlocking Audition Excellence: Essential Preparation Strategies Sight-reading auditions present a unique challenge for musicians, requiring the ability to perform music on the spot with little to no prior preparation. No doubt it will be nerve-wracking, but with the...
The Blues: Understanding and Performing an American Art Form!Eastman School of Music, University of RochesterCompleting a jazz music course from the Eastman School of Music is no easy task. It requires time, focused attention, dedication, and a full commitment. The...
What could be better than spending part of my summer sharing my musical gift, talent, knowledge, and experience? I had the opportunity to do just that with a group of young Christians looking to invest their summer vacations to both hone their craft and grow in their...
What might someone who primarily plays jazz expect to learn from studying the music of the Beatles? It is a well-known fact that the Beatles had no traditional music education, yet there is no doubt they were extremely talented composers. While their songs were not...
In the vast realm of music, jazz stands as a beacon of improvisation, innovation, and expression. While recordings offer a glimpse into the brilliance of jazz, there is an unparalleled magic in experiencing it live, especially with luminaries like trumpeter Jeremy...
Spain, home of the Paella and the Paso Doble, served as the backdrop for a week-long intensive arts camp where approximately sixty individuals from various communities in Madrid and Portugal came to sing, dance, learn, and play music to the Lord. The overnight camp...
Rehearsing Music Ensembles Course At The University of North Carolina As you probably suspect, music is a never-ending learning career. There is always something new to work on and some new skill to develop. To this end, I recently completed a course at the University...
Jazz Improvisation Course At Berklee College of Music Learning how to be a great jazz improviser seems like an intangible goal. There are no simple answers; it takes a serious amount of effort, knowledge, and dedication. Becoming successful at it comes from a...
Building strength, character, and relationships through music. I was honored and very excited to be invited, as a guest artist, to teach and participate in the winter week-long Conservatory Music Camp at The Salvation Army in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The goal was to...
