"I'd love to have you out there with our brand on you."
So, I had a talk with Dr. McCoy today about my future.
It was scary to approach him about talking about that.
I feel no more settled than I did before.
I know I will sing in professional choirs for the rest of my life, that part is certain.
It sort of look like the direction to go would be to start a master's degree in early music. It would get me in on having lessons with a faculty member.
Dr. McCoy talked about the market there is for me. And that if he says so, then many others will agree. He said he could get me an audition with Conspirare and said that "Craig" would love my voice. (Craig Hella Johnson, famous composer, and director of Conspirare.) (Yeah, I know, his middle name is Hella, and that is really fuckin' weird.)
He talked about the fact that if I did get with a teacher, it would need to be a good one that wouldn't change what I have. He talked about how my voice is pliant and stable all the way through to my high D on the Mahler, and that I am able to do all different things that are asked of my voice. It was great to have all that acknowledgement.
He told me to talk to one of the new DMA students, Cari, who I've already talked with who wants to get me with her old agent, and told me that I needed to move to New York. Him mentioning Cari and her connections basically reiterated the fact that... I should move to New York.
I mentioned that I would be open to relocating to Europe to sing in one of those choirs, and he mentioned that many of those choirs are disbanding after the austerity measures. But suggested relocating, instead, to South Korea.... because the guy who directs the Incheon City Chorale heard us, and heard me, and complimented what we do. Dr. McCoy calls him the "Eric Ericsson of Asia." And it's true. I looked up the Incheon City Chorale. They're spectacular. And professional choristers in South Korea... they don't have to have a day job.
That is really my ultimate goal. Professional choirs here in the US ship in their choristers for a couple rehearsals and a couple performances, pay them, and send them on their way. Like, I could do the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the South Dakota Chorale, and Seraphic Fire (in Miami) all from right here in Denton/Dallas. Conspirare I'd have to move to Austin for. KC Chorale I'd have to move to Kansas City for. I dunno.... I might sway more toward KC Chorale over Conspirare, even though Conspirare is who Dr. McCoy endorses ALL THE TIME. It might be nice to have a total change of scenery... in a new state.
OR, it might be nice to have a total change in scenery... in South Korea???
Oh how I do love South Korea....
I would have to ship Rosie.....
My boobs are too big for South Korea....
Sorry, random thoughts.
Ummmm. Yeah, I still feel entirely unsettled.
....The Eric Ericsson of Asia heard my Mahler high D, in the greatest perfection I had ever sung into it. That's fuckin' awesome.
I know what I want... but I don't know what I want.
It was scary to approach him about talking about that.
I feel no more settled than I did before.
I know I will sing in professional choirs for the rest of my life, that part is certain.
It sort of look like the direction to go would be to start a master's degree in early music. It would get me in on having lessons with a faculty member.
Dr. McCoy talked about the market there is for me. And that if he says so, then many others will agree. He said he could get me an audition with Conspirare and said that "Craig" would love my voice. (Craig Hella Johnson, famous composer, and director of Conspirare.) (Yeah, I know, his middle name is Hella, and that is really fuckin' weird.)
He talked about the fact that if I did get with a teacher, it would need to be a good one that wouldn't change what I have. He talked about how my voice is pliant and stable all the way through to my high D on the Mahler, and that I am able to do all different things that are asked of my voice. It was great to have all that acknowledgement.
He told me to talk to one of the new DMA students, Cari, who I've already talked with who wants to get me with her old agent, and told me that I needed to move to New York. Him mentioning Cari and her connections basically reiterated the fact that... I should move to New York.
I mentioned that I would be open to relocating to Europe to sing in one of those choirs, and he mentioned that many of those choirs are disbanding after the austerity measures. But suggested relocating, instead, to South Korea.... because the guy who directs the Incheon City Chorale heard us, and heard me, and complimented what we do. Dr. McCoy calls him the "Eric Ericsson of Asia." And it's true. I looked up the Incheon City Chorale. They're spectacular. And professional choristers in South Korea... they don't have to have a day job.
That is really my ultimate goal. Professional choirs here in the US ship in their choristers for a couple rehearsals and a couple performances, pay them, and send them on their way. Like, I could do the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the South Dakota Chorale, and Seraphic Fire (in Miami) all from right here in Denton/Dallas. Conspirare I'd have to move to Austin for. KC Chorale I'd have to move to Kansas City for. I dunno.... I might sway more toward KC Chorale over Conspirare, even though Conspirare is who Dr. McCoy endorses ALL THE TIME. It might be nice to have a total change of scenery... in a new state.
OR, it might be nice to have a total change in scenery... in South Korea???
Oh how I do love South Korea....
I would have to ship Rosie.....
My boobs are too big for South Korea....
Sorry, random thoughts.
Ummmm. Yeah, I still feel entirely unsettled.
....The Eric Ericsson of Asia heard my Mahler high D, in the greatest perfection I had ever sung into it. That's fuckin' awesome.
I know what I want... but I don't know what I want.