What Would Mozart Do?

Sarah Kerr is a councillor for the Liberal Democrats in Wokingham, England. In our conversation we touch on how the skills of performance, negotiation and research learnt from her career in music impacted Sarah’s work in influencing social issues and legislation in her Borough. 

Sam Robinson who studied to become a tenor is now about to commence his studies in Law. Having trained as a tenor and having worked in artist management, Sam’s story tells of the vast web of transferable skills which he has been able to carry over from music into various career streams.

When cellist Kathleen Wallfisch identified a niche in the market of casting extras in film, she started her own business, Music in Vision, to develop effective casting of musicians in the visual media production world. Subsequently, she developed The Musician Method, a series of online courses designed to help professional musicians position themselves as business owners and generate more income.

https://kathleenwallfisch.com/
https://www.musicinvision.com/
https://musician-method.thinkific.com/

Chris Elliott, a tenor and headhunter, talks straight about the need for music students to look outside the secure bubble of education. He shares ideas about students' need to set up their networks in such a way so they can fund their studies as well as maintain a quality of life in which their musical careers can become fulfilling rather than a burden to make ends meet.

The UK’s National Health Service or NHS celebrates 72 years this week and Alex Aldren, a doctor and tenor whose singing in hospitals during the corona-virus epidemic inspired people as far afield as Argentina, joins me for a chat. We talk about his journey through medicine, his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the impact of music on well-being and health, as well as the value of the arts and the need to maintain a constant two-way conversation between those who create the arts and those who fund it.

https://www.alexanderaldren.com

Meet Paula Muldoon. A fantastic violinist and award-winning coder. In our chat we go beyond finding the similarities of code script and a musical score. We talk about the subtle art of communication among musicians, point out the skills that music teaches as a discipline, talking openly about defining identity when having made a career change.

Look up Paula's links:

https://paulamuldoon.com/ especially for

- "Learn to code" 

- "Violin with Paula" (her YouTube channel)

Kreutzer Challenge (breathing and stretching) playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuRSZ6W1ynqzeSbzzER6a207uHBLm-OeM

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Soprano Rachael Marsh chats about how she ended up in music via her studies in linguistics and obtaining a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education. She is now currently undertaking her Masters in opera. 

We draw parallels between life experiences and performance, highlighting the similarities between talking to a class of seven year-olds and performing to an intimidating opera casting panel, keeping a balance between focusing on a goal while having a broad perspective on life.