This was a year of transition, more than progress, and of making hard choices for long term benefits.  At the end of last year, I made a commitment to change just about everything in my life to more aggressively pursue my goals as a musician. Literally moving across the country

I am a big goal setter. I find it helps keep myself on track to where I want to go, however, in January I usually begin the new year with a thorough self-flogging about how I did not accomplish all I wanted to last year, and how another year has

You know the drill. Literally. You’ve been drilling runs, exercises, passages from arias, motifs and more since the moment you became involved in this crazy profession of classical music. It is a perfectionist-friendly place of thousands of details that have to be correct because at least one person always knows

Very little of what I do is creative on a day to day basis. You’d think that being a musician implies an inherent creativity, but most of the time I find myself treading the well worn paths set out by others or by myself in the work of being a

Some people think that creativity cannot be taught. “You either have it or you don’t,” they say. But I happen to know that this is total bunk. Music education is all about training the imagination! And because I’m passionate about singing well, my own imagination is constantly getting stretched, tweaked