Interview with Carrie Jane Knowles

In this episode I am interviewing the performance coach from the Juilliard School of Music. Noa Kageyama is one of the foremost leaders in performance psychology. He has helped musicians with auditions from college all the way to the top orchestras in the world. So sit back and enjoy this informative interview and check out how to work with your own performance anxiety and create a great winning mindset that will help you on stage, anywhere at any time. Dr. Kageyama is also giving a 4 week online workshop in October and you can sign up at: bulletproofmusician.com. And, if you can’t make Noah’s class next month he will also be giving a workshop for my program, Get In! We will be working with Noah and performing throughout the month to get you in top-notch shape for your next college audition! You can sign up at my program at monteiromusicstudio.com

In this episode I talk about strategies to help your teen through his or her first year in college. If you find my blog at my website MonteiroMusicstudio.com, you will see a link to the Harvard health Publishing article in which I foond some information. It is a short article and was a great read. There’s also a link to the Coronado Public Library where I am giving a free online workshop for one hour and it is sponsored by the Coronado Library. Join us on Friday, September 23rd from 6 to 7 PM Pacific time. I would love to see you all there and if you have any questions or comments or even your own strategies to help teenagers get through their first year of college, please feel free to share with me at [email protected]. I would love to hear from you all have a great week!

Are you in control of your college choices? Are you floundering from being decisive to being incredibly indecisive in your college choices? In this episode I give a short description of two different types of students, passengers and drivers. Which one are you and how can you switch from being indecisive to in control?

In this episode I answer a few questions I received in emails from parents. Their concern is that they might start preparing their teen for college too late. But is there a too early?

In this episode I interview an amazing educator who has dedicated her life to working with special needs students and helping them achieve success and balance their life through music. Links for information: https://hemdahsmusicstudios.com/about-us.

I’ve been teaching for over 20 years and one of my favorite things to do is help students get into college. I love giving them that final push into adulthood and helping them transform themselves and become a professional. So this story has always been near and dear to my heart and is about one of my first students that I took on in my studio after I moved out West. Enjoy!

This is my chat with the incredible author, Barbara Quick.  We delve into her reasons for writing the novel, Vivaldi's Virgins, and how she came up with the idea during a trip to Italy.  This is a fascinating discussion about Vivaldi and the amazing Violinist and Composer, Anna Maria dellla Pietá.

I was able to sit down and have a very interesting chat with the author, Carrie Jane Knowles, about her book "A Musical Affair".  We talked about how she became a writer and what were the experiences that led her to write this particular book.  

Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes at a those fancy concerts? A Musical Affair will take you there in a fiction based on her own fundraising experience. This book kind of reminds me of Mozart in the Jungle but it goes even further behind the scenes (before the music begins) to where the MONEY happens. Trust me, no orchestra can function without money so I find this book extremely interesting and eye opening. So check out, A Musical Affair and get your questions ready for Ms. Knowles because we will speak with her live via Zoom on July 29th at noon PDT (3:00pm EDT)