It’s travel season again, and so I finally have some forced downtime to do a little writing here, and so I’m finally getting to something...

That's right: I've seen every single one of these first hand, and it wasn't pretty.

"The US is a religious country, and god is flat and green." I didn’t come up with that, sorry mom, but it has more than just some truth,...

Here’s something I have never done: talk openly about my audition experiences. I haven’t really shared much about this for two reasons. ...

I started working on this chart a couple of months ago with the guidance of my buddy Kayleigh Miller of the Musicians Health Collective...

A conversation with Steve Johnson, owner of Virtuosity Musical Instruments downtown Boston, MA, about his journey as a musician, business...

I don't usually respond to other blogs, especially by anonymous people. But this sensationalist, simplistic blog post, titled The...

Dr. Colleen Conway is Professor Music Education at the University of Michigan, author of several best selling books on Music Education...

The recent passing of James Levine has brought up again both his awful, ugly past, and our seeming inability as an industry to grapple...

Dr. Colleen Conway is Professor Music Education at the University of Michigan, author of several best selling books on Music Education...

I don't know Sam Burtis personally, and haven't experienced his playing or teaching first hand, but he's always been outspoken and...

The mob takeover of the Capitol exposed again how strange the bedfellows can be on the extreme right. Blue Lives Matter protestors...

With the proposal from Ithaca College to remove the Master of Music Performance from their curriculum (https://theithacan.org/news/ic-rel...

In January of 2013, I was asked to give a masterclass for the University of British Columbia low brass students on the subject of career...

l love music, and I genuinely enjoy practicing, but the idea of doing the exact same thing every day...was not appealing to me

The following took place during my time in undergrad. It is a cautionary tale. I was fortunate enough to get an internship working with...

What a week for education. It started off with the Wall Street Journal’s bizarre editorial about Jill Biden’s terminal degree...

There so much to say about this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-white-house-not-if-you-need-an-m-d-11607727380. ...

The college years are extremely valuable. That fact is self evident in how much money people are willing to spend on them. Being on the...

Trying to organize my thoughts tonight after the long week we all had. Here goes nothing. Joe Biden owes his victory in part to a...