Beyond Talent

Creating a Successful Career in Music
2. Revised Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-538259-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 668 g

This newly expanded edition of Beyond Talent provides user-friendly real-life advice, examples, and perspectives on how to further a career in music. Understanding the unique talents and training of musicians, veteran music career counselor Angela Myles Beeching presents a wealth of creative solutions for career advancement in the highly competitive music industry. Step-by-step instructions detail how to design promotional materials, book performances,
network and access resources and assistance, jump start a stalled career, and expand your employment opportunities while remaining true to your music. Beeching untangles artist management and the recording industry, explains how to find and create performance opportunities, and provides guidance on grant writing
and fundraising, day jobs, freelancing, and how to manage money, time, and stress. The new extensive companion website puts numerous up-to-date and useful internet resources at your fingertips.
This essential handbook goes beyond the usual "how-to," helping musicians tackle the core questions about career goals, and create a meaningful life as a professional musician. Beyond Talent is the ideal companion for students and professionals, emerging musicians and mid-career artists.

Zielgruppe

Professional musicians; students and alumni of conservatories and music depts.; music faculty; music and general career centers; undergraduate and graduate music career development and music business students

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beeching, Angela Myles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikindustrie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Musikindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Sachbuch, Musikführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prelude to Revised Edition
Introduction
1.: Mapping Success in Music
2.: Making Connections: Schmoozing for Success
3.: Building Your Image: Creating Promotional Materials that Work
4.: Expanding Your Impact: Making Recordings
5.: Building Your On-line Community: Social Networking, the Web, and You
Interlude: The Fundamental Questions
6.: Booking Concerts like a Pro
7.: Building Your Reputation, Growing Your Audience
8.: Connecting with Audiences: Residency, Educational, and Community Programming
9.: Performing At Your Best
10.: Managing Your Freelance Gigs
11.: Balancing Life: Managing Time and Money
12.: Raising Money for Music Projects
13.: Getting It Together: Your Career Package
Postlude: Confessions of a Career Counselor
Endnotes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Beeching, Angela Myles
Angela Myles Beeching is director of the Career Services Center at New England Conservatory of Music, where she is also a member of the faculty. A Fulbright Scholar and Harriet Hale Woolley grant recipient, Ms. Beeching holds a doctorate in cello performance from SUNY Stony Brook. Her articles on music and careers have appeared in Classical Singer, Inside Arts, and Chamber Music magazines. Ms. Beeching has been a guest speaker at conferences for the National Association of Schools of Music, Chamber Music America, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, and 00e National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.