Double Carreer

[unknown-user]

I was thinking lately about making my professional return in Singing.

[unknown-user]

Sorry I just realised I meant to post this at the Professionals, but never mind… my mistake

[carl-swanson]

Esmeralda- I think the public has a difficult time wrapping their minds around people having more than one career. I’m constantly facing that one by being a harp repairer and maker, and also being a harpist and harp teacher. For me they go together quite nicely, but I think in general I’m thought of as a repairer and maker first and harpist and teacher a distant second.

You will have to decide if you want to be known as a singer who also plays the harp or a harpist who happens to sing. You will not be taken seriously if you try to promote yourself equally in both areas. Whatever happened to the concept of the renaissance man/woman?

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

If anyone can do it, you can. The harp only needs five hours a day to practice, at most, and the voice probably no more than two, plus studying texts. You could vocalise for an hour in the morning, practice harp for two-and-a-half hours, have lunch, a nap, sing for an hour, do another two-and-a-half hours of harp, then call it a day. It doesn’t leave a lot of time for networking, but if you have management to handle that, it could work. I would love to see you play the solo from Lucia then sing the aria. I think it would be a tremendous attraction. How is your voice? Does it have an exceptional color? There are an awful lot of sopranos out there. Or is it in a special fach? You could always do a night club act with singing and the harp, or specialty concerts. Yes, it could be done.

[unknown-user]

My voice is Soprano… ranging from Middle C to F (2nd octave on harp) on a good day… everyone thought, including my music coach, that it would be a waste to put it away.

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