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Struggling with Music Performance Anxiety? Check out my recent interview for ‘Classical Crossover Magazine’
Title Publication: Overcoming Performance Anxiety: Insights from Dr. Jessica Quiñones in ‘Classical Crossover Magazine’, Published 20 Sept 2024, Interviewed by Natasha Barbieri “The life of a creative individual, especially musicians, often seems to require being perpetually ‘on’. But what happens when the stage transforms from a place of joy into a source of fear? To […]
5 things I no longer believe about flute playing.
At the end of 2019 I was starting to morph into a ragged shell of a human after a packed-out flutey year. Exhaustion was definitely nipping at my ankles, begging me to take a little break. You see, in 2019 I gave 8 public recitals, ran 4 Boho Flute Retreats here in Cornwall, released […]
You are getting so much right.
I was desperately late to pick up my 1-year old from his nursery. Alice, his caregiver, had been waiting for me to arrive for quite a while now —and in doing so I was breaking their Main Rule— the one that I even had to sign a form about—Avoid Being Late to Pick Up Your Child!!! […]
“Help, I am sooo flippin’ busy!!! How can I possibly find time to practice?”
Life is short, so I’ll hop to the point: I’m writing today to remind you that you have permission to shape your music-making to fit your lifestyle — whatever that means for you: Between your demanding cray-cray work schedule. Your ridiculous commute. Your conference paper presentation. Your sacred family time. Taking your cat to the vet. Sweating for […]
My up-close-and-personal conversation with flautist and interdisciplinary performer Zara Lawler
I’ll admit that I was skeptical (and intrigued) when I first read that New York city-based flautist, Zara Lawler combines dance, voice and text while she plays. But, listen– that skepticism didn’t last long because after I watched her brilliant theatrics in action I was hooked. The fact that she quotes poetry by Rumi in the middle of her Andersen etudes (as one […]