GOOD LUCK!! A handful of my harp friends are taking the Metropolitan Opera audition this week. The last audition I took was for the Curtis harp studio after my masters. Although I was not accepted, and I thought my harp career was over, in a way I still felt like I...
Sometime during my 6 hour afternoon background gig (before the dress rehearsal and concert I still had waiting for me later in the day) I was playing one of my standards – Moon River. A wave of confusion swept over as I was rudely brought back to reality realizing I...
Do you feel like you’re all thumbs? Thumbs can just plain get in the way. Sometimes our thumbs make us feel clumsy and slow when we play. They get tense; they don’t place accurately. Thumbs can be hard to control, and it can be even harder to make them sound beautiful...
"Choose a job you love, and you'll never work a day in your life." - Confucius I talk with my harp friends all the time about how thankful we are that we don't have a mundane 9 am - 5 pm job. We can make our own schedule, our yoga class option is later than 6 am, and...
As I turned to move my harp cart to the side, I let go of my harp. Seconds later, the royal blue transport cover quickly came into my peripheral vision, the knee block heading straight for the curb. Why couldn't I catch it? Why did I let go? Why is this happening to...
-Why waste time doing practice that merely practices in your mistakes and doesn't turn your efforts into music? -Why does it take so long to make the notes sound beautiful? -Why can't your practice inspire you? Actually, your practice not only can be inspiring - it...
Hooray! My CD is now available on CDBABY! http://cdbaby.com/cd/hannahdeladurantey VISIT HERE to find out more info. about this album! Sheet music available on http://souellettegtr.wix.com/scott-ouellette#!store/c1ky3 And...
Addi & Jacq took to the stage on March 27th, 2015 to compete in the Ultimate Battle of the Boroughs. It was an unbelievable night full of such diverse music making! Here's a video from that night - "Pink Phone" - just released! For more information visit:...
My monthly free webinar is scheduled for next Thursday, March 19 at 9 PM Eastern. The subject is memorization: "You CAN Memorize - even if you CAN'T find your car keys!" The truth is that if memorization were really about "remembering" your music, none of us would be...
I'm so thrilled to be a core member of the new contemporary music ensemble, INTERSECTION. This Nashville based ensemble was born from the vision of conductor Kelly Corcoran to challenge the traditional ways that audiences interact with music in the concert experience....
