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The Singer's Audition & Career Handbook
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Description
The Singer’s Audition & Career Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the training, audition technique, and professional development essential for launching and sustaining a rewarding career in classical singing. Expanding on author Claudia Friedlander’s online collaboration with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, the book brings together insights from nearly seventy prominent performers, educators, and opera industry professionals.
Whether you are a young singer preparing for conservatory auditions, a professional opera singer, or an avocational singer seeking to improve your technique and pursue local performance opportunities, this book will help you take inventory of your skills and achieve the next stages of your musical journey.
Table of Contents
Preface: Why Do You Sing?
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Lifelong Journey
PART ONE: Learning the Craft
Chapter 1: The Complete Package
Chapter 2: Training Programs
Chapter 3: Technique
Chapter 4: Musicianship
Chapter 5: Languages and Diction
Chapter 6: Dramatic Interpretation
Chapter 7: Choosing Audition Repertoire
Chapter 8: Audition Preparation, Technique and Etiquette
Chapter 9: Performance Opportunities
Chapter 10: Investing in Your Training
PART TWO: The Apprenticeship Phase
Chapter 11: Resident Artist Programs
Chapter 12: Promotional Materials
Chapter 13: Public Master Classes
Chapter 14: Competitions
Chapter 15: Keeping Afloat
PART THREE: Going Pro
Chapter 16: From Contract to Closing Night: The Opera Singer at Work
Chapter 17: Crafting Your Public Persona
Chapter 18: Management
Chapter 19: Choose Your Own Adventure
Chapter 20: Running Your Business
Conclusion: A Lifetime of Song
Product details
| Published | 30 Oct 2019 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 250 |
| ISBN | 9781538109892 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Illustrations | 2 b/w illustrations; 2 b/w photos; 3 tables; 112 textboxes |
| Dimensions | 251 x 181 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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We need YOUR singular, authentic, unleashed voice in this mad world. This book is here to encourage you to find YOUR way, in YOUR time, with YOUR voice... and to make clear the practical path so you can walk it in all your unadulterated glory! (From the Foreword)
Joyce DiDonato, multi Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano
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Claudia Friedlander has created a relevant and comprehensive resource that provides helpful guidance to empower singers in the pursuit of the careers they create and envision for themselves today. A must-have resource for the library of every singer or teacher.
Allen Henderson, executive director, National Association of Teachers of Singing; professor of voice, Georgia Southern University
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I want to hand every aspiring singer this book. With a mass of information based on refined expertise and real-life experiences, this resource makes easier the daunting journey that singers embark upon when starting their career. This is exactly what the singing world of today needs. Brava!
Lucas Meachem, Grammy Award-winning baritone
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The Singer’s Audition & Career Handbook presents the realities of the business through a text that is both informative and encouraging, providing direction and guideposts to hopeful career-track singers.
Classical Singer Magazine

























