Studying, audition, reading…

Hi there! I hope you are well. This week was a busy one practising for upcoming projects and working on my voice with great detail. This season that I started to freelance I decided to take the time to keep improving my technique, as you may know from my previous blogs. I finally have the time to really study again on my instrument and without the complete full schedule of being on a theatre full time.  I am really thankful for this time in which I am really digging not only on my technique but also learning from myself and how I am acting under these circumstances and new challenges, so in a way I am learning more about myself. I am thinking in terms of a long term development on my way through my life as a singer, also as human being.

 I had an audition this week, I sang Lensky aria and Dein is mein ganzes Herz. I was able to warm up well before, and I managed to keep it cool during the audition, so I could sing free and not too tense under the circumstances of it. As I mentioned, to me is the most challenging, to sing auditions. Performances or concerts is something I am used to it but in the recent last 8 years where I was fixed in a theatre, I almost could not do any auditions and I did not get the chance to be in that situation as much as I would have liked to. In this season, have manged to do some auditions and slowly I am getting the rhythm to them. I just need to keep doing them aften. In this particular audition I think it went really well, I do not know if I will get any work from it but, with what I was able to control which was my singing and my nerves, it worked fine. The rest, wether they hire me for something or not, that is not in my control so I trust that it will be what it has to be.

During my time at the audition I met a colleague of mine which is also freelancing since years and I got a nice perspective and his view on how to freelance. It is interesting for me, specially now, to hear other colleagues who have more experience on this new territory for me, and to hear their positive and negative impressions of being a singer freelancing in a very competitive profession. I was very positively surprised that he has read “The inner game of Tennis” and we both agree that after reading it, something clicked differently on our views on the learning process of singing. We had a very nice conversation about it.

I keep reading my daily Holiday and Tolstoi, plus my 4 times a week exercise routine. I have started as well with a book called “The seven habits of highly effective people” by Covey. It is a book I have on my kindle since long time and finally started reading it. It is really interesting.

I hope you are well and take care. See you next week.