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Description: Please write here only if you have personal experience of working as a professional musician. Why did you decide to ... more

Musician ... become one? What are your qualifications? What are the ups and downs of the profession?

Newest Review: ... member of the panel, no bias or preferential treatment can be given. However - it has been known through some clever positioning of mirrors, for the panel to know exactly who is behind the screen! Or a clever panel member has been known to repeatedly ask questions in order to trick the auditionee into speaking and perhaps revealing his identity. Some people find screened auditions less ... more

... stressful - others find them very impersonal. As with many things in the profession though, they can lend themselves to some quite amusing moments. A colleague of mine once was just having one of those days. Nothing was going right. Millions of wrong notes...more

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Musician: But what do you really do? (1671 words)
by - written on 27/10/09 (Very useful, 94 readings)
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My whole working career has been that of a musician. It's been 17 years now and I can't imagine earning a living by doing anything else. "A musician?" people often say. "But that's just your hobby isn't it? What do you actually do for a living?" Or once, a slightly hard of hearing colleague of my husband's said "And what does your wife do?" "She's a musician." "Oh - I see," said the slightly bemused colleague. 2 minutes of silence were then followed by, "So - where does your wife do her magic then?" "Erm, no, MUSician not MAGician!!" Obviously there ... Read the complete review

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