The first thing I learned about marketing for performers is: “You are a product.” But is that really the right message for young performers? And might there be a better alternative?

The season will resume on February 3rd. You can find the full schedule here: ⁠https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/episode-schedule/⁠

Transcript and sources for this episode: https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/2024/12/09/episode6/

Music composed, recorded and produced by Silvia Berrone

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If you’ve never heard of the network effect, prepare to get disillusioned. But don’t despair – knowing how the internet works can help you put focus in the right place as an artist. And there are also aspects of this new world we live in that are full of possibility.

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Let’s get a basic understanding of the five basic ways the arts get funded, how funding influences the nature of the art being made, and what that means for you as a performer.

This episode became rather long - here are some timestamps in case you want to listen to just parts:

00:17:06 - what I think I did wrong in my funding attempts

00: 28:54 - The 5 Types of Arts Funding

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What can you do with a performing arts degree, you ask? Well, according to some educators within the performing arts, you can be a great realtor if your performing career doesn’t pan out. Let’s articulate why that sort of thinking is counterproductive but also how exactly academic training DOESN’T prepare us for the real world and which skills to focus on to fill in what academic training leaves out.

Transcript and sources: https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/2024/11/18/episode3/

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What can you do with a performing arts degree, you ask? Well, according to some educators within the performing arts, you can be a great realtor if your performing career doesn’t pan out. Let’s articulate why that sort of thinking is counterproductive but also how exactly academic training DOESN’T prepare us for the real world and which skills to focus on to fill in what academic training leaves out.

Music composed, recorded and produced by Silvia Berrone

Cover art by Kateřina Krejcarová

Transcript of episode:

https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/2024/11/11/episode2/

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Let’s start this first season with the assumption that what you do as a performer is valuable beyond bringing you joy or status or distraction. It’s a radical thought, I know. But without it, there’s no point in your listening to this podcast. So let me make a case for why you matter as a performing artist and how what I want to share on this podcast can help you make the best use of it.

Music composed, recorded and produced by Silvia Berrone

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Transcript of episode:

https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/2024/11/04/episode1/

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The first episode will launch a week from now, Monday, November 4th! 

In this pre-season episode I want to tell you a little about how to listen to the podcast and how I envision it to be useful. I’ll also talk about who I imagine my audience to be, how I’m using the term “classical,” and why I decided to create the show in the first place. 

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Episode transcript: https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/2024/10/28/pilot/

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The first season of Classically (Un) Trained will run from October to December 2024.

Music: Silvia Berrone

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FORGOT TO SAY THAT EPISODES OF THE PREVIOUS PODCAST WILL BE AVAILABLE HERE: https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/former-podcast-archive/

In what I hope is the last update before I launch the first season of the new podcast, in this episode I will:

1) Tell you about audience survey results (including reading out some responses about performing artists' frustrations and responding to a repeating theme which surprised me)

2) Describe the podcast to come (including some titles of episodes I'm writing)

3) Tie up some loose ends from the last podcast!

Currently the best way to stay up-to-date is the newsletter, which you can sing up for HERE.

New Website (under construction): classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com

Here is a full written presentation of the new podcast:

Classically (Un)Trained - Performing Artists (Re)Inventing Themselves in Times of Hardship and Technological Change 

Classically (Un)Trained is a companion for classically-trained performers who are on a journey to (re)invent themselves for the 21st century and (re)discover meaning in what they’ve trained so hard to master.  

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Performing arts degrees are likened to pyramid schemes, auditions are called cattle calls, and artists who make a living from performing are the 1%. 

About the host:

Ema Katrovas is a classically-trained singer. She spent her formative years singing in regional Czech theatres. After the pandemic, she pivoted to contemporary classical music and cultural journalism, attending the Aix-en-Provence festival’s cultural journalism workshop and completing a two year Artist Diploma residency at the High Conservatory in Lyon, where she created and performed in the one-woman vocal-theatre show Diva Lazarus*. She is currently working on a doctorate at the University of Strasbourg/HEAR with a thesis called* A Poor Opera: In Search of Vocal Theatre. www.emakatrovas.com

In this quick update, I'm going to pitch you on my idea so far for an as-yet-unnamed podcast! But mainly - I need YOUR help to name and focus it.

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