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Train Your Mind To Get Into Your Peak Performance Zone
Train Your Mind To Get Into Your Peak Performance Zone The extraordinary potential of our abilities resides in our focus and awareness....
Optimal Performance Starts With Training Your Mind
Training to hit that sweet spot — engaged, focused, excited, a bit nervous—that puts you at the top of your game You step out into the...
Harnessing Your Highest Potential In Performance
When I’m conducting an orchestra that’s hurtling at breakneck speed, I can’t make a mistake or there will be a train wreck. ...
Inside Music: A conductor’s notes on the power of music to inspire the art of living
The Role of the Orchestra in a Community
My Vision for the Role of the Orchestra in a Community - Tania Miller I believe that music has the capacity to enrich a community and to...
What Is Art?
Leo Tolstoy’s Question Made Me Think About My Answer Leo Tolstoy opens his 1897 book What is Art? with a humorous account of a rehearsal...
Why Music Can Help You During the Pandemic and Always
It’s an understanding force You might feel like you are pent up at home, working in a bubble with no real way to get out. Or you might...
The Power of Music to Create Positive Change in Your Life
It can alter your mood, give you strength and understand you when you need it most When we are suffering, sometimes it feels best to be...
Expanse: Music and your mind’s capacity to change, grow and create
The Path Where ‘Intention’ Leads You
Your mind’s active focus and awareness guides you to notice and achieve Intention is the starting point to anything. When we intend to...
How Music and Einstein Teach Kids about Energy and Life
How Music and Einstein Teach Kids about Energy and Life The experience of living and learning through the imagination Image by...
The Impact of Music on Children’s Brains
Life empowering aspects of music education that will change every child’s success in life Photo credit: Jaromir Chalabala via Shutterstock...
15 Reasons Why All Kids Should Learn Music
Samoylova Svetlana via Shutterstock How music can help every child grow into a happy and successful adult As an orchestra conductor, I can...
Inside Leadership
The Role of the Orchestra in a Community
My Vision for the Role of the Orchestra in a Community - Tania Miller I believe that music has the capacity to enrich a community and to...
How Music and Einstein Teach Kids about Energy and Life
How Music and Einstein Teach Kids about Energy and Life The experience of living and learning through the imagination Image by...
Public Speaking: How to Talk to an Audience of 40,000 People
When I signed up for a life of conducting orchestras, I didn’t realize I’d also need to learn how to handle enormous audiences When I...
10 Leadership Lessons I Have Learned From Conducting an Orchestra
“Lead and let go” to transform the potential of your team. Leadership is about being the fuel and the fire — creating a spark and lighting...
For Conductors: How to Move the Time when Conducting
Tempo is perhaps one of the most important aspects of conducting. Shaping the tempo, moving the tempo, and starting the tempo are all...
Getting Ready to Conduct a Concert in Front of 40,000 people
Every summer I conduct the Victoria Symphony in what has to be one of the most incredible concerts of the world. Victoria has a beautiful...
Conductors: When to Conduct and When to Let Them Play
This is an important discussion for conductors. When do you lead musicians and in a sense force or 'compel' them to play into your...
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