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Carl Jung
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Blog: Music-Mind - Musicians’ Performance Anxiety: The (nervous) Elephant in the Room - 1. Anxiety that matches the high-stakes nature of the musical task, and is specific to music performance. A lot is depending on this performance, this audition. You’re going out there and showing the world the years of investment you’ve put into your art, your craft. Of course you’re nervous. You’ve worked your butt off for this. It would be a bit odd if you weren’t nervous!
Drawings of Jean-Jacques Sempé
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Blog: Music-Mind - Musicians’ Performance Anxiety: The (nervous) Elephant in the Room - “One of the most important gigs I ever did was a 1987 concert called “A Tribute to John Coltrane.” I was onstage with Dave Liebman, Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Gomez, and, most important, Wayne Shorter. It was a live, open-air concert in front of 22,000 fans at midnight. The show was recorded for audio and video. There was no possibility of doing a second take. The pressure was tremendous, and I was excited to be onstage that night with those guys. Part of the thrill of that performance was playing for the first time with Wayne Shorter. So I had a lot to deal with. Did I get through it? Yes, and I was very happy with the result, because I liked the pressure and rose to the occasion. Like they say, pressure makes a diamond.“
Richie Beirach, Pianist
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Blog: Music-Mind - Musicians’ Performance Anxiety: The (nervous) Elephant in the Room - “Right before I go on stage, it’s not my favourite moment to tell you the truth, there’s the nerves and anxiety and trying to get into that zone – which inevitably happens once the music starts. Once the music starts and I start playing, I wouldn’t say I become a different person because it’s really getting in touch with who I am, you’re exposing yourself in a very vulnerable way which is I think one of the gifts that you need as a musician. You need to do that unselfconsciously and be able to do that in front of lots of people.”
Joshua Bell
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Blog: Music-Mind - Musicians’ Performance Anxiety: The (nervous) Elephant in the Room - At 9, before performing a Mozart concerto, she knelt down and thought, “If I hit one wrong note, I’ll die.” That sense of perfection stayed with her…“I always doubt,” she says. “I’m always groping. If you’re too pleased with what you’ve done, or you get into a routine, that’s the worst. Sometimes I go out on a limb, so it doesn’t happen.”
On Martha Argerich
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Blog: Music-Mind - Musicians’ Performance Anxiety: The (nervous) Elephant in the Room - "I get shitty scared. One show in Amsterdam, I was so nervous I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone."
Adele
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Pablo Casals
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Blog: Music-Mind - Musicians’ Performance Anxiety: The (nervous) Elephant in the Room - “She loved singing and playing to family and friends, but as the gigs got bigger, so did the pressure, highlighting the fact that she wasn’t a natural performer. As Amy was outwardly so confident, no one imagined that inside she harboured a fear of being onstage, and that as she played in front of ever-increasing crowds, the fear didn’t go away. Over time it became worse. But she was so good at concealing it that even I wasn’t aware of how hard this was for her. Quite often, during a song, she’d still commit the cardinal sin of turning her back on the audience.”
On Amy Winehouse
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Neil Packer’s illustration of Odysseus battling the fierce cyclops
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Resilience: Bendy Trees vs. Mega Yachts - “It was hard to find words for the dark cloud that hovered over me: of anguish, of dejection, of rage…At my lowest point, I seriously considered killing myself. But I didn’t kill myself. I stayed alive. And, just as I was stuck with being alive, I was stuck with my love of music. Something about it was still sustaining, and still worthwhile. So I embarked on a quest to make a life in music, in any way I could.”
Leon Fleisher
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Peter Serkin and me at Tanglewood, 1998
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Jack Kornfield
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No No…! Uh Uhhhh….! You are NOT going to put me through this for the rest of our time on earth together.
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Evil Bread…
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A toddler in the Freie Universität
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A day at the Freie Uni in 2012, photo taken by one of “Die Alten Geister” group…
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Blog: Music-Mind - When ‘Self-Exploitation’ is in the Job Description. - start intensively practicing as early as possible, preferably before you’re out of diapers.
(the great Hilary Hahn in diapers)
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Blog: Music-Mind - When ‘Self-Exploitation’ is in the Job Description. - 2. sacrifice a whole lot of play-time during childhood for alone-time scowling at your instrument.
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Blog: Music-Mind - When ‘Self-Exploitation’ is in the Job Description. - 3. look for teachers and mentors who viciously and consistently tear you down. These are the only honest appraisals of your worth and the suffering will definitely result in alot of success. It helps if these guys are also certified gurus!
(Click here for an article about gurus)
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Blog: Music-Mind - When ‘Self-Exploitation’ is in the Job Description. - 4. become completely obsessive about it: make sweeping statements (preferably in interviews) about how a day away from your instrument is a day completely wasted.
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Blog: Music-Mind - When ‘Self-Exploitation’ is in the Job Description. - 5. feel bad about yourself if you didn’t perform at 100% in your last concert, and continue to feel bad for as long as possible.
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Blog: Music-Mind - When ‘Self-Exploitation’ is in the Job Description. - 6. If someone compliments you, counteract with some self-deprecating statement about how terrible the performance was: it makes you come across as more committed!
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Blog: Music-Mind - When ‘Self-Exploitation’ is in the Job Description. - 7. Invest as much time and money as you humanly can into your music profession, doggedly holding onto the belief: the more you give, the more likely you are to be successful!
Hieronymus Bosch’s “Concert in the Egg” (1561)
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Blog: Music-Mind - When ‘Self-Exploitation’ is in the Job Description. - 8. Find Jerks to associate with. The Bigger the Jerk, the Greater the Artist!
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Blog: Music-Mind - When ‘Self-Exploitation’ is in the Job Description. - 9. Put family, friendships, and non-musical activities in the back seat. The only thing that counts is the music.
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Blog: Music-Mind - When ‘Self-Exploitation’ is in the Job Description. - Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
William Butler Yeats
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Blog: Music-Mind - When ‘Self-Exploitation’ is in the Job Description. - In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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Blog: Music-Mind - When ‘Self-Exploitation’ is in the Job Description. - You, darkness, that I come from
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone
and then no one outside learns of you.
But the darkness pulls in everything-
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! -
powers and people-
and it is possible a great presence is moving near me.
I have faith in nights.
Rainer Maria Rilke
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/16-the-water-fish-swim-in
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Blog: Music-Mind - The Water Fish Swim In… Musicians’ Cultures and The Power of Anger - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Blog: Music-Mind - The Water Fish Swim In… Musicians’ Cultures and The Power of Anger - Make it stand out
Cindy Sherman, ‘Untitled #632.’
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Blog: Music-Mind - The Water Fish Swim In… Musicians’ Cultures and The Power of Anger - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Blog: Music-Mind - The Water Fish Swim In… Musicians’ Cultures and The Power of Anger - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/15-a-cat-hotel
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Blog: Music-Mind - A Cat-Hotel, a.k.a. Creative Career Development for Artists - Make it stand out
The Cat Hotel of my Dreams….
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Blog: Music-Mind - A Cat-Hotel, a.k.a. Creative Career Development for Artists - Make it stand out
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Blog: Music-Mind - A Cat-Hotel, a.k.a. Creative Career Development for Artists - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/14-unicorn-professions
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Blog: Music-Mind - Unicorn Professions - Make it stand out
An AI-generated image, that’s why there are some funky details…
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Blog: Music-Mind - Unicorn Professions - Make it stand out
(Grumpy Cat NOT Happy)
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Blog: Music-Mind - Unicorn Professions - Make it stand out
(No worries, Marco Polo, anyone could mistake a rhinoceros for a unicorn…)
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Blog: Music-Mind - Unicorn Professions - Make it stand out
slick, cut-throat, profit-driven;
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Blog: Music-Mind - Unicorn Professions - Make it stand out
or else shady, sleazy and a more-than-a-bit creepy.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Unicorn Professions - Make it stand out
Rainer Maria Rilke, the best “Career-Coach” of all time.
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/12-see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil
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Blog: Music-Mind - See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Blog: Music-Mind - See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil - Make it stand out
The full article is available here.
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Blog: Music-Mind - See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil
“Teaching women how to defend themselves against male rapists is not the same as working to change society so that men will not rape.” bell hooks
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/what-i-wish-i-could-say
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Blog: Music-Mind - What I Wish I Could Say… - Make it stand out
Crispin Highfinger the Third
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/11-uncomfortable-bed-fellows-musicians-and-mental-health
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Blog: Music-Mind - Uncomfortable Bed-Fellows: Musicians and Mental Health - Make it stand out
AI-generated image using the prompt ‘Sigmund Freud and Ludwig van Beethoven asleep’.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Uncomfortable Bed-Fellows: Musicians and Mental Health - Make it stand out
Joseph Beuys: Every Human is an Artist
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Blog: Music-Mind - Uncomfortable Bed-Fellows: Musicians and Mental Health - Make it stand out
Fun with AI…
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Blog: Music-Mind - Uncomfortable Bed-Fellows: Musicians and Mental Health - Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Blog: Music-Mind - Uncomfortable Bed-Fellows: Musicians and Mental Health - Make it stand out
Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1926
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Blog: Music-Mind - Uncomfortable Bed-Fellows: Musicians and Mental Health - Sunday-School-Teacher Me
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Blog: Music-Mind - Uncomfortable Bed-Fellows: Musicians and Mental Health - Make it stand out
Clockwise: Chet Baker, Billie Holiday, Sonny Clark, Art Blakey, Bill Evans, Charlie Parker
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/9-right-side-of-the-brain
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Blog: Music-Mind - Music Making on the Right Side of the Brain - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Music Making on the Right Side of the Brain - This was a collection of letters sent by the Swiss pianist and pedagogue Anna Hirzel-Langenhan to her students during the Second-World War. Because of war restrictions, her students couldn’t travel to her, so she created some exercises to assist them in developing an “Anschlagskultur” (a culture of touch), intensifying the connection and responsive interaction between the fingers and the piano keys.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Music Making on the Right Side of the Brain - And even a minuscule extra load to my already over-burdened playing system was just too much. It made things worse. (The picture is not me… I kind of wish it was… )
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Blog: Music-Mind - Music Making on the Right Side of the Brain - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Music Making on the Right Side of the Brain - Grasping, Grabbing, Getting
a left-brain / right-hand plot to command the universe
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Blog: Music-Mind - Music Making on the Right Side of the Brain - FAUST: “You can’t [know the art of reciting], if you can’t feel it, if it never r ises from the soul, and sways t he heart of every single hearer, w ith deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, c ooking up a stew from other’s scraps, b lowing on a miserable fire, m ade from your heap of dying ash. L et apes and children praise your art, i f their admiration’s to your taste, b ut you’ll never speak from heart to heart, u nless it rises up from your heart’s space.”
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Blog: Music-Mind - Music Making on the Right Side of the Brain - Make it stand out
left vs right brain drawings
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/7-imposters-unite
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Blog: Music-Mind - Imposters Unite! - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Imposters Unite! - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Imposters Unite! - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Imposters Unite!
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Blog: Music-Mind - Imposters Unite! - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Imposters Unite! - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Imposters Unite! - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Imposters Unite! - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/gurus-and-other-dangerous-beasts
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Blog: Music-Mind - Gurus and Other Dangerous Beasts - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Gurus and Other Dangerous Beasts
Maria Callas raising a glass [to the vast majority of music teachers].
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Blog: Music-Mind - Gurus and Other Dangerous Beasts
Sikh And Hindu Religious Painting Of Gods & Goddesses With Guru Nanak Dev
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Blog: Music-Mind - Gurus and Other Dangerous Beasts - Gurus…
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Blog: Music-Mind - Gurus and Other Dangerous Beasts - from House Concert:
FZ: Kämmerling is a pedagogue with an aura and an instinct for power, tremendously caring, but with an iron hand; among his students he is regarded as a dictator about whom it is often said: Some things can only be learned from him.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Gurus and Other Dangerous Beasts
“I am going to be your last teacher. Not because I’ll be the greatest teacher you may ever encounter, but because from me you will learn how to learn. When you learn how to learn, you will realize that there are no teachers, that there are only people learning and people learning how to facilitate learning.” Moshé Feldenkrais
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/5-making-music-in-difficult-times
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Blog: Music-Mind - Making Music in Difficult Times
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Blog: Music-Mind - Making Music in Difficult Times
„Oh, on the outside I’m ok. It even looks like I’m in perfect control, I’m sure like you. But UNDERNEATH I AM A SEETHING MASS OF MURDER AND ABJECT DEPRESSION, ANGER, AND DEEP ABYSMAL SADNESS.”
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Blog: Music-Mind - Making Music in Difficult Times - Make it stand out
Leonard Bernstein on JFK, following his assassination in Nov. 1963: “This will be our reply to violence : to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly, than ever before. And with each note we will honor his spirit, commemorate his courage, and reaffirm his faith in the triumph of the mind.“
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Blog: Music-Mind - Making Music in Difficult Times
Full article here.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Making Music in Difficult Times - It’s just what we do as upright apes.
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/4-music-mind-90-saxophone-identity-and-lack-there-off
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Blog: Music-Mind - Hey Musician: Who Are You?
“He’s 90 % Saxophone”
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Blog: Music-Mind - Hey Musician: Who Are You? - The culture musicians are steeped in celebrates single-mindedness and obsessive commitment.
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Blog: Music-Mind - Hey Musician: Who Are You? - Make it stand out
Zethphan Smith-Gneist and Cate Blanchett in Todd Field’s film Tàr
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Blog: Music-Mind - Hey Musician: Who Are You?
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Blog: Music-Mind - Hey Musician: Who Are You? - Make it stand out
Artist Louise Bourgeois:’ work: Cell (You Better Grow Up)
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Blog: Music-Mind - Hey Musician: Who Are You?
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/mind-music-3-a-conversation
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Blog: Music-Mind - A Conversation between the Therapist and the Musician (they’re the same person) - Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
https://www.heatherodonnell.info/musicmind/2-music-mind-i-have-confidence-in-sunshine
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Blog: Music-Mind - I Have Confidence in Sunshine
“Dobby Has Heard Of Your Greatness, Sir, But Never Has He Been Asked To Sit Down By A Wizard! Like An Equal."
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Blog: Music-Mind - I Have Confidence in Sunshine
The brain is a novelty-seeking beast.
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writings - The Broken Musician The Taboo of Injury and Disability in Music Article for VAN Magazine, Berlin May 2016
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writings - The Pianist's Eye, Lilian Kallir's Musical Alexia Article for VAN Magazine, Berlin January 2016
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writings - Endings and Beginnings
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writings - The Unseen and Continuing Waves of the Pandemic for Musicians
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writings - Playing Music, Hearing a New Song
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writings - Lost in the (Neuronal) Stars. Presented at the Performing Arts Medical Association Symposium, Weill-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY July 2016
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writings - The Case of the One-Armed Pianist Radio Documentary by Guy Livingston May 2016
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writings - Marsyas bound: Neurological dysfunction and its impact on pianists, from a pedagogical perspective. Rehabilitative work at the instrument with affected pianists.
Presented at World Piano Conference, Novi Sad, Serbia June 2015
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writings - The Elephant on the Table A pianist confesses her injuries June 2009
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writings - Listening through the Piano September 2008
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Schriften - The Broken Musician The Taboo of Injury and Disability in Music Article for VAN Magazine, Berlin May 2016
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Schriften - The Pianist's Eye, Lilian Kallir's Musical Alexia Article for VAN Magazine, Berlin January 2016 (Copy)
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Schriften - On Record with Heather O'Donnell: ”Considering Clara Schumann” Interview with Julia Figueras on WXXI 91.5 Classical Radio March 2019 (Copy)
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Schriften - Lost in the (Neuronal) Stars. Presented at the Performing Arts Medical Association Symposium, Weill-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY July 2016 (Copy)
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Schriften - Marsyas bound: Neurological dysfunction and its impact on pianists, from a pedagogical perspective. Rehabilitative work at the instrument with affected pianists. (Copy)
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Schriften - The Elephant on the Table A pianist confesses her injuries June 2009 (Copy)
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biography
Heather O’Donnell has a multifaceted history of supporting artists, first as a colleague and for the past decade as a mental health provider. She is a psychologist (M.Sc.), an Artistic-Systemic Therapist, and the founding director of TGR The Green Room. With a rich background as a former professional pianist who experienced career-disrupting injuries, she has carved a unique path by developing innovative methods aimed at supporting performing artists on their lifelong journey towards health recovery, professional development, and sustained well-being.
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Playing Music, Hearing a New Song
I grew up in a suburb of New York City. When I was six, I started studying with an incredibly inspiring pianist, Charles Milgrim. He gave me an insight into a world completely different from the suburban life I was otherwise living. I’ll never forget the day he brought a score of J.S. Bach to our lesson, ceremoniously placed it on the piano, and indicated that life would never be the same after diving into this miraculous music. Although he could be a bit scary to my smaller self, he was also tender-hearted and would occasionally tear-up when he heard or spoke about the music of Chopin or Schumann. I worked with him twice a week for over 90 minutes for several years and regard him as a second father. He was inspiring, demanding, loving and a beautiful model for living a musician's life.
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Playing Music, Hearing a New Song - After leaving home
After studies, I began working as a musician, moved for a year to Paris, then back to New York, right after 9/11. That was such a strange year, I decided to get the hell out of there and move to Berlin with my husband. We stayed in Berlin for 13 years. I had a good and challenging career as a musician based in Berlin until 2010. During that time I played solo concerts and worked as an ensemble musician throughout the world. Some memorable concerts were in Moscow in October 2002 during a hostage stand-off (luckily the theater I was in was not affected, but the director of my theater was constantly on the phone with musicians in the occupied theater); concerts and masterclasses in China; a series of benefit concerts in Jordan; collaborations with dancers in Hungary and France; and many many more wonderful experiences.
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