Seriously!  How many times has that same person been late to rehearsal? How many times have I spent weeks on a score and the person next to me is fumbling around looking at it for the first time?  No matter what a great singer they may be, I know I

Just like the saying ‘it takes a village to raise a child’, it takes a plethora of teachers and mentors to raise a performer. Today I’m going to focus on just one who was absolutely influential in my development as a musician and artist. He was taller than me when

Growing up in Los Angeles, I didn’t know much about German Romantic poetry. I did read some Goethe and Heine (because I had excellent high school German teachers) but I didn’t exactly grasp the scope of that literary movement. And I couldn’t have guessed that those poems would change my

“Don’t sing until you’d die if you didn’t.” Giovanni Battista Lamperti I’m in seventh grade, a nerdy, clumsy, awkward kid wearing oversized glasses. Music has always been my favorite class, and this year I get to be in orchestra AND choir. I am very excited. During the first week of

I had always sung growing up, but it was more of a hobby of mine rather and it didn’t hold the passion that playing instruments held for me. However, curiosity finally got the better of me in high school, and I auditioned for choir where I met Mr. Williams. He

My grandmother must have read it in Good Housekeeping magazine.  “If you’ve burned yourself, put butter on it to stop the swelling.” Well ladies and gentlemen, it doesn’t work! In fact, it makes the burning worse.  Such can be the case for any advice we get in life. Especially career