In November of 2008 I moved to New York City. I’d been working in local, regional theatre and tours for over ten years and I was determined to get a job playing keyboards on Broadway. This is part 5 of a 5-part series.
For the…
In November of 2008 I moved to New York City. I’d been working in local, regional theatre and tours for over ten years and I was determined to get a job playing keyboards on Broadway. This is part 4 of a 5-part series.
For the…
In November of 2008 I moved to New York City. I’d been working in local, regional theatre and tours for over ten years and I was determined to get a job playing keyboards on Broadway. This is part three of a five part series.
For…
I wanted to play keyboards on Broadway, but I didn’t know where to start. I did know, at least, that moving straight to New York with a liberal arts degree and 10 years experience in community theatre was a bad idea. I knew the first…
Continue Reading →I wanted to play keyboards on Broadway, but I didn’t know where to start. The first step I took was committing to the goal. This is part 1 of a 5 part series on becoming a Broadway musician.
For the full story, visit the series…
This is the introduction to a 5-part series on becoming a Broadway musician.
For the full story, visit the series home page:
How I Became a Broadway Musician…
I played keyboards on my first Broadway show a few weeks ago. For me, this is a
We received an email from Adam this week with this question:
I was just wondering how you guys are getting people to post real jobs on your new feature. It’s really great I’ve been checking it everyday looking for things in OH and surrounding states.…
David Cashman, a former showband pianist, is finishing his doctorate at Southern Cross University. His doctoral thesis is on the way music is used on cruise ships and the lives of musicians who work those jobs. Obviously this fits in very well with the Chronicles …
Continue Reading →One of the reasons we started MusicianWages.com was because of the huge reservoir of unqualified career advice that was being served to musicians online.
I usually keep quiet about the charlatanry tips I find online, but I just can’t pass this one up. It displays…
When I first started out as a musician I spent a few years teaching lessons. One of the most frustrating parts was establishing and enforcing a re-scheduling policy. It felt like scheduling the lessons sometimes took longer than actually teaching the lessons!
It was difficult…
I came across a collection of videos tonight (thanks to The Collaborative Piano Blog and Tales from the Pit…) of Broadway music contractor John Miller discussing how to get a gig on Broadway.
A music contractor, sometimes called a music coordinator, is the person
T., a guitarist and soon-to-be music school grad, wrote us last week with this question:
I’m getting my degree soon, but I feel that I don’t really have a lot of actual work experience to flesh out my resume. How far do you think a…
