How to own the stage and communicate within a musical ensemble with examples from Verbier Academy.

Tension aches and pains and how musicians can learn to avoid them.

Performance Anxiety in musicians and a few contributing factors

I recently presented a webinar for the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) in London. What was interesting to me about this webinar...

Different methods of teaching piano to a blind student

Performance Anxiety: too many stresses My experience of working in the International Piano Academy in Konz, Germany early in September...

Some thoughPerformance Coaching in music education is not understood or really valued.

Yale Summer School of Music, Norfolk, Connecticut I was brought over to work as a Performance Coach at the the Yale Summer School of...

Case studies of students dealing with performance anxiety issues in York

Performance Anxiety: a negative association with one piece of music and how to lessen the triggers.

Engaging in music performance It’s a tricky one that I find myself exploring a lot. It is so easy to lose focus and concentration when...

It’s always refreshing to go to hear another country’s resident orchestra on home ground, and hearing the Concertgebouw orchestra in...

The BBC made a documentary on the Chinese pianist Lang Lang a few months ago, and it was fascinating watching. Lang Lang has become...

Thoughts about how classical music concerts can lack passion and how good it is when there is passionate performing.

I have worked as a chamber musician and duo partner for my entire career to date and therefore I have not needed to play from memory in...

The similarities between listening to people in every day conversation and listening in music. Can one impact the other?

It only takes a period drama on television to remind us of how far society has moved in a relatively short period of time. I watched the...

How does someone who wins a talent show survive out in the demanding professional world?

In my last two blogs on this topic, I wrote about some practical tips for managing stage fright and the deep shame that many performers...

This is the second in a series of blogs about stage fright. In my last blog, I wrote about how deeply ashamed many performers are about...