What You Wish You Knew Before Entering the Profession

Hi there! Happy end of July and welcome to the seventh edition of the Conductor’s Podcast Wisdom series, a new series full of shared life experiences and, of course, wisdom! This series is aired on the last Monday of each month, and in each episode, I am going to pose a question to 10 musicians, conductors, or business gurus. So including myself, you will hear all the goodies from a wide variety of people, thus called the wisdom series. Now, without further ado, let’s get started.This month’s question that I am asking my people is, “What You Wish You Knew Before Entering the Profession"I asked this question selfishly as I suck (!!!!) at networking in whatever sense. Let's hear what my guests have to say:Tianyi Lu (Principal Guest Conductor, Stavanger Symphony, episode 34)Ashley Killam and Carrie Blosser (co-founder, Diversify the Stand, episode 20)Margaret Flood (Founder, Frost Young Women Conductor Symposium)JoAnne Harris (film composer and conductor, episode 36)Lidiya Yankovskaya (Music Director, Chicago Opera Theater, episode 41) Kiernan Steiner or Dr. Kiki (Decolonization consultant and choral conductor, episode 17)Kristin Roach (opera conductor, Episode 12)Lina Gonzalez Granados (Conducting Fellow, Philadelphia Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, episode 38)Alice Farnham (opera conductor, episode 26) All About Chaowen Ting