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The fear of public speaking, also known as Glossophobia is the most common phobia amongst people of all ages. Some people feel a slight nervousness when it comes to public speaking, while others are terrified and face full-on panic. This week on The Business Savvy Singer, Dr. Greta Pope shares more information on Glossophobia and how to overcome it to help you speak more confidently and articulately to audiences of all sizes.
Register for The Art of Public Speaking; Overcoming Anxieties here.
With the holiday season quickly approaching, what better way to get in the holiday spirit than listening to your favorite Christmas songs? This week Dr. Greta Pope talks about her new album, Christmas Time Is Here, and shares her love for the joyous season and the great memories built with her family over the years.
This week Dr. Greta Pope sits down with Nancy Bos. Nancy is a professional singer and voice coach, and a member of the Pan American Vocology Association. Nancy is an inspiring music professional who shares in a straightforward and entertaining way, how to look at the impact of our personal stories in our figurative and literal voices, how to reframe narratives that are not serving us, and how to prevent doubt and fear from holding us back – even in the face of opposition.
This week we kick off season three of The Business Savvy Singer Podcast! The Business Savvy Singer Podcast is dedicated to highlighting professionals in the music industry and providing valuable tips and tools to those in the industry, or aspiring to be.
Each week you’ll get a glimpse into the lives of music professionals and celebrate their personal journey to success in the music business. Follow along as we enter the third season!
We’ve recently celebrated our 100th episode and now we’re about to embark upon our third season and we’re having a wonderful opportunity to educate, entertain and encourage singers everywhere. This week is The Business Savvy Singer Podcast Awards episode. We are giving honorable mention to two outstanding Business Savvy Singer Podcast guests and then we will announce the Business Savvy Singer First Place Award Winner. Listen now!
This week Dr. Greta Pope sits down with Dr. Julia Nielsen. Dr. Nielsen has been one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most sought-after vocal pedagogues since founding her private voice studio in 1999. Her students are currently performing leading roles with major opera companies, soloing with symphonies, and raising their voices in elite professional choruses across the United States.
Dr. Nielsen graduated from Indiana University with a Doctor of Music degree in Voice under Martina Arroyo and a Masters Degree under Margaret Harshaw. She earned her B.A. in Music from Stanford University, with distinction and with honors.
This week we celebrate our 100th episode of The Business Savvy Singer Podcast! To commemorate this special event, we are honored to welcome Allen Henderson to the podcast. Versatile artist, teacher, arts administrator, and baritone Allen Henderson is currently Executive Director of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), the world’s largest professional association of voice teachers, supervising a talented staff in promoting continuing education for voice teachers.
He is also Professor of Music at Georgia Southern University where he teaches voice and foreign language diction. He holds degrees from Carson Newman College (BM) where he was the outstanding graduate in music, The University of Tennessee (MM), and the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (DMA) where his minor was in Arts Administration and he was winner of the Corbett-Treigle Opera Competition.
Henderson conceived of and launched two major national level competitions, the National Music Theater Competition and National Student Auditions sponsored by NATS. He also served as president of the American Traditions Vocal Competition, a unique vocal competition celebrating the diversity of American vocal music currently in its 30th year.
As a church musician, Henderson has served churches in Tennessee, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Georgia and recently retired as Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church, Statesboro, Georgia.
Learn more about Allen by listening to the full podcast!
This week on The Business Savvy Singer Podcast Dr. Greta Pope sits down with Fez. Fez is a young singer and performer from Swaziland, Africa who sings in the “Afro Beat” style. Her style of music is sung partly in English and partly in the Zulu language. Fez recently launched her latest EP, Uthando – which means “love” in Zulu. Check out the full episode and learn more about her journey.
Watch Fez’s live performance here and watch music new video for Uthando here.
This week Dr. Greta Pope sits down with bass-baritone, Dr. Sam Handley. Dr. Handley has performed more than a dozen roles at Lyric Opera of Chicago (where he was also a member of the Ryan Opera Center).
A fervent proponent of contemporary composers, Sam has delivered several world premieres and he has been a guest artist with the Cleveland Orchestra with Franz Welser-Möst at both Severance and Carnegie Halls, Houston Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia with James Conlon.
Dr. Handley has long loved sharing his knowledge of the art of singing and was a Teaching Fellow during both his Master and Doctoral studies. He has taught at UW-Platteville, Lee College, San Jacinto College, North Park University, Madison Summer Music Clinic, and Musica nelle Marche (Urbino, Italy) and is in demand as a Master Teacher, Clinician and Adjudicator. Sam currently serves on the faculty of DePaul University in Chicago. He is Vice-President of the Chicago Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and Executive and Artistic Director of the Green Lake Festival of Music.
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