Stacy Garrop’s award-winning music is centered on dramatic and lyrical storytelling. Stacy shares stories by taking audiences on sonic journeys – some simple and beautiful, while others are complicated and dark – depending on the needs and dramatic shape of the story. After teaching composition full-time at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University from 2000-2016, she stepped down from her position to become a freelance composer. She is also on the composition faculty of the annual Fresh Inc Festival in Milwaukee, WI, a two-week summer program sponsored by Fifth House Ensemble.

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Composer Stacy Garrop discusses the art of emailing conductors and jumping feet-first into the freelance life.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Choosing the thing to dedicate your time to
• Being prepared to leap into self-employment & freelance work
• Email campaigns
• A script for cold emails
• Personalizing the emails
• Tailoring your bio with social proof
• Statistics tracking
• Hidden pages on your website
• Websites
• Being detail oriented
• Securing the score online
• Freelancing
• Daniel Felsenfeld
• Hustling
• Reaching out to five people every day
• Approaching performers
• Fear of self-employment
• Royalty income
• Answering every email within 24 hours
• Constantly keep learning
• Figure out your communication method and stick to it

Website:

• www.garrop.com
• www.composerinklings.com

Recommended Listening:

• Lin Manuel Miranda, Hamilton

Recommended Reading:

• Orson Scott Card, Characters & Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing)
• Ann McCutchan, The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About The Creative Process
• Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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