Elisa Janson Jones discusses overcoming her struggles with the, "professional skills" becoming a band director, helping kids with developmental disabilities learn music, and her new venture, Music Teacher Guild which provides professional learning for music educators.

Checkout musicteacherguild.org and elisajanson.com

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Check out part 1 for the start of Eric's and Juli's discission on the process to get into college music programs.

In part 2 we continue our conversation with Juli Nickel, flute instructor at George Mason University, and founder of Juli Nickel Consulting - an amazing coaching service dedicated to helping students navigate and find the best college music school for them.

I love Juli's holistic approach to coaching future college music students. As she says: "So you got into X or Y school - now what?" Can you afford it? Does your family want you living there? What else should you consider?

Plus, her expert advice comes from her personal experience (at North Texas & New England Conservatory) as well as helping her own kids.

Learn more about college coaching with Juli (see "Work With Me" at the top).

If you or a student you know is auditioning for a college music program this year, you need to listen to this podcast. Juli Nickel, flute instructor at George Mason University, and founder of Juli Nickel Consulting - an amazing coaching service dedicated to helping students navigate and find the best college music school for them.

https://www.instagram.com/julinickelconsulting

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Don Crafton is a professional trombonist and founder of Sight Reading Factory, which now integrates with Snap Audition's asynchronous audition recording feature. Hear how Don's idea for a system that could created music on-demand came to him, and how it has spread world-wide.

Today, Sight Reading Factory is the most used Sight Reading app in the world, by far. Every day, tens of thousands of musicians and music educators use it to make sight reading practice a breeze. See us give a demo of how it can be used to add sight reading to asynchronous recorded auditions in Snap.

Don also subs with various orchestras and holds a masters in Trombone Performance from Manhattan School of Music.

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Chris shares his experience taking a high school band program of 12 to over 250 and about his most recent venture: Virtual Assistant Director. Chris' marching and concert band experience is vast. He marched 4 seasons with the Carolina Crown Drum & Bugle Corps. Today, he serves all over the U.S. as a clinician, adjudicator, and runs Virtual Assistant Director.

https://virtualassistantdirector.com

A 36-year band director, Lesley shares her story of how everything changed seven years ago when she hit exhaustion. An author of two books to help music educators develop thriving lifestyles and work patters, she is also the founder of the mPowered Music Educator Academy and Podcast. Checkout her website: mpowerededucator.com.

Nikki Abissi is a professional trombonist and teacher living in New Jersey, outside of New York City. She is Second Trombone of the historic American Symphony Orchestra, and an active performer on Broadway and with professional orchestras around the world.
Nikki also invited an extension handle for the trombone called, Extendabone.

Nikki graduated from The Juilliard School under the instruction of Joseph Alessi, Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic. She received her Master of Music Degree from Stony Brook University under the instruction of Michael Powell, Principal Trombonist of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and member of the world renowned American Brass Quintet.

She is also former principle trombonist for the Colorado Symphony. Before that, she served as second trombonist for the Alabama Symphony and the New World Symphony.

Nikki available for in-person and online lessons. Contact her through: Instagram or her website.

Henrique De Almeida, a native of Brazil, began drumming as a child and by 17 touring the world with Brazilin pop stars. After graduating from Berklee with a degree in Jazz Composition, Henrique served as drummer for the US Air Force Academy Band, before returning as professor to Berklee in 2011. Today, Henrique lives in Colorado Springs where runs, The Drum Set Coach Academy.

Henrique has performed for The President of the United as well as with fellow artists, David Ellefson (Megadeth), Victor Wooten ( Bela Fleck & The FleckTones) Steve Hunt (Allan Holdsworth), Dave Samuels (Spyro Gyra) Jerry Bergonzi, Pop Star Gloria Estefan, Nat Adderley, Bill Cosby, Dave Valentin, Tiger Okoshy, Larry Coryell, Jeff Berlin, Nelson Rangel, Jeff Narell, Ira Sullivan, Victor Mendonza, Danilo Perez, Phil Wilson, Baron Brown (Vital Information & Steps Ahead), Matt Garrison (John McLaughlin) , Bill Summers (The Head Hunters) Betty Carter, Nando Lauria, (Pat Metheny Group) Brazilian Pop Stars: Alceu Valenca, Gilberto Gill, Raul De Souza, Luiz Gonzaga, Hermeto Paschoal, Katy Webster, among many others.

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Doug Bogatz is Director of Instrumental Music at Westview High School in Omaha Nebraska. Along with experience directing almost every type of school band and orchestra, Doug was also the Drum Major for the University of Nebraska Marching Band and the Colts Drum and Bugle Core (Dubuque, Iowa). Currently, he is also the Director of Auditions for the Nebraska Music Educators Association (NMEA).

In the latest Snap Audition Episode, Eric has an interesting conversation with Esther Ling about her journey from growing up in Malaysia to becoming an engineer to ultimately becoming a Canadian pianist, indie singer-songwriter, and recording artist. Esther merges piano and vocals to bring a compelling lyricism to her songwriting, crafting heartfelt stories with music through her passion for exploring the depths of human emotion and the beauty of our shared experiences.

estherlingpianist.com

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