B4 The Stage

Violinist Sarah Whitney is celebrated as a performer, teacher, musicians coach, and musical maverick. Praised by The Washington Post for her “marvellous violin acrobatics,” Sarah has appeared on stages worldwide as a soloist and collaborative artist throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Comfortable in a wide range of settings and musical styles, she is fiercely dedicated to bringing fresh new ideas to classical music and empowering musicians to find their own voice.

Where to find out about her group coaching program coming up: Career Reboothttps://www.sarahwhitney.com/ 

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Musicians for Equality is a student-led non-profit that advocates for equality and equity across the globe. Musicians for Equality strives to bring justice to unheard voices, educate ourselves and each other, and spread awareness through music.

About Isabelle Wolpert: Eighteen-year-old classical pianist Isabelle Wolpert is from Stillwater, Minnesota. She currently studies with her one and only teacher, Dr. Reid Smith. Wolpert has taken masterclasses from Alexander Yakovlev and participated in his international piano festival, Grand Piano in the Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia during the summer of 2019. While in St. Petersburg, Wolpert received masterclasses from notable Russian and Japanese pianists. Isabelle is a senior at St. Paul Academy and Summit School where she is the founder and co-president of The Music Lab, a student club that experiments and exposes students to different types of music, and continues to be a section leader for four years in Honors Sinfonia and Academy Symphony. This fall, Isabelle was planning on being the music director for a student-directed musical along with assistant music director for one in during the summer of 2021. Outside of music, Isabelle is an avid downhill ski racer, ultimate frisbee player, and enjoys spending time with her dogs, Ivan and Igor.

About Nate Strothkamp: Nate Strothkamp is a sixteen year-old violinist from Portland, Oregon. He serves as co-concertmaster in the Portland Youth Philharmonic and plays with the PYP Camerata chamber orchestra. Nate participated in the 2019 Boston University Tanglewood Institute, where he was a concertmaster of the Young Artists Orchestra and selected to play in a masterclass with Hilary Hahn. He has also had the opportunity to play for renowned artists including Ida Kavafian, Bella Hristova, Charlie Castleman, Janet Guggenheim, and Mimi Zweig. Nate was chosen as the winner of the 2019 PYP Concerto Competition and performed the entire Korngold Violin Concerto with PYP at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. He won the Beaverton Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition and will be performing with the orchestra in 2021. Nate is the Executive Director of Project Prelude, an organization that aims to expand the accessibility of music education to students from economically disadvantaged schools through free music lessons. He is currently a junior at the Oregon Episcopal School where he enjoys running cross-country and track.

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Jennifer Rosenfeld is the co-founder of iCadenza (a career consultancy for classical musicians) and Cadenza Artists (performing arts talent agency). She has helped thousands of musicians launch ground breaking artistic projects that got them noticed, helped them negotiate better for themselves and earn more money, and step into the careers they’ve always dreamed of. Her clients are not starving artists or fresh-out-of-conservatory musicians. Her clients include Grammy-award-winning soloists and ensembles, acclaimed composers and directors, tenured professors at top universities, members of premier symphony orchestras, and leaders of major arts organizations who are not content to settle with the status quo of their highly successful careers.

She has taught at and/or consulted for major universities and conservatories, including Stanford University, the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, MIT, and more. She has also written the book, Awakening your Business Brainwith her business partner Julia (used in university classrooms all over the US), which is about how creative people have a total leg up when it comes to the business side of their careers.

Check out her website to learn more about her coaching:https://jenniferrosenfeld.com/

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Megan Kuhar is a coach who empowers creative entrepreneurs to step into their true potential and make an impact on their brand and business online. Her coaching is grounded in the belief that creatives can stay authentic and aligned while also employing savvy and accessible marketing strategies, using social media and technology to share their message with their audience. In addition to coaching, Megan is an Assistant Professor of Music Technology at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music, where she teaches musicians how to build their brands and create videos, podcasts, and websites.

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free mini-sessions to anyone interested in learning more about Megan Kuhar's coaching, you can sign up for a time here:http://www.megan-kuhar.com/minisession 

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books, GRIT: https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duckworth/dp/1501111116/ 
and BURNOUT:https://www.amazon.com/Burnout-Secret-Unlocking-Stress-Cycle/dp/1984818325/ 

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Welcome to the B4 The Stage podcast! This is a podcast where we go behind the scenes of the classical music industry, I hope you stick around to discover what an artist's life is before the stage. 

Find your host, Grace Lamb, on social media:

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Website: https://gracecolbylamb.com/

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