Caveat Compositor

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be cross-posting a series of short essays that I wrote at the NewMusicShelf about self-publishing and making good financial decisions as an artist. It’s one of those times of the year for me: time to check out the various “opportunity...

Choral Videos

This afternoon, Dr. Carlson, the commissioner of To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence, posted a link on Facebook to a video of the ISU Madrigal Singers performing the aforementioned piece. On a lark, I did a little search for my name and came up with a recently posted...

Free Kittens Scores

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be cross-posting a series of short essays that I wrote at the NewMusicShelf about self-publishing and making good financial decisions as an artist. Giving away scores. We’ve all done it. You meet a performer, the two of you talk, and...

Resolved:

With all the blogging I’ve been doing lately about the concert music business and how composers should be more proactive in the financial aspect of their careers, I’ve decided to make a personal/professional resolution: By October 2011, I want to be able to pay my...

Pricing: The Goldilocks Zone

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be cross-posting a series of short essays that I wrote at the NewMusicShelf about self-publishing and making good financial decisions as an artist. When I’ve talked to other composers about self-publishing and selling their own works,...