Piano Collaborator’s Blog
Today's post is by Jaime Namminga, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Collaborative Piano Area at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. A few weeks ago, Jaime contacted me about the possibility of writing a short article about choral collaboration. Jaime and I acknowledge the very difficult time that those in the… [more...]
Today's post is from Elvia Puccinelli, artistic director of CollabFest, with news on their change of plans for a socially distanced collaborative piano conference this coming October, as well as upcoming events that are happening today and continuing through the summer. I hope this letter finds you and yours well in these… [more...]
Myron Silberstein's Paying the Piper: A New Model for Employment in Storefront Theatre follows a music directing engagement he accepted in 2010, and how an $800 stipend ended up becoming a dangerously low wage when calculated per hour:How naïve, exactly, had I been? I still have the production schedule, filed among… [more...]
This article is reprinted from the Foley Music and Arts Newsletter, a (usually) weekly review of the activities that I've been up to, and links to the most recent articles from both the Collaborative Piano and Foley Music and Arts blogs. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. For the last few days,… [more...]
The Dream Big conference at the University of Manitoba is less than two weeks away, and I recently had a chance to ask Drs. Laura Loewen and Judy Kehler Siebert a few questions a few questions via email about the conference and its aspirations.If you're able to get out to… [more...]