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Re: Thoughts on choosing to become a professional musician

Author: fiato
Date: 2006-11-25 17:05

Hello all -
This is an interesting thread.
As an aging clarinetist who has had played principal clarinet professionally in classical orchestras since I was 22, I am posting this to remind you all of the need to be a self-generator.
Even if you make it to a comfortable wage with benefits in a good professional orchestra, you still need to maintain the drive throughout your career to constantly re-examine your playing and improve it.
This can become very difficult as the years pass and you become accustomed
to your job and role in the orchestra. It can become easy to become cynical, to take your job for granted and to become dissatisfied with the relatively low
financial compensation.
Even if you successfully pass through all those early hoops that lead to employment, the hoops keep placing themselves in front of you as you age. You must love to make music, you must love the sound you make, you must love to practice, you must love to perform in public. You must constantly seek criticism of your playing from yourself and from your colleagues. You must pay close attention to the fine soloists of other instruments and to great singers.
Only those with that fire in the gut will succeed in being happily employed in an industry which is marginal to the flow of society.
I hope this helps some of you make decisions.
Fiato

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