Chelsea Hart-Melcher, an opera singer, music teacher, and "mompreneur", gives us a glimpse of the joys and struggles of her multiple hats and finding your why. She is super passionate about helping singers channel their anxiety into their superpower. If you're a musician, performer, parent, or student, then this show is for you!
Scarcity and abundance: this is something I'm very passionate about. I really had to learn this at a young age. This is how I learned to use it to my advantage.
This week, we check back with my good friend Regan Goins. This time, we talk about jealousy and rejection in the acting industry! Do you have more questions you'd like Regan to answer? Join our Facebook support group for Music Majors and Professionals: https://www.facebook.com/groups/musicmajortomusicprofessional
What would you do if you could go back? Today, I interview one of my dear friends and co-teachers Regan Goins. Regan has had a successful career in acting and has made a huge impact spearheading several productions in the music school.
Learning a whole two-hour opera role in 11 days... is it possible? I don't know but I'm motivated to try this! I'll be learning Norina from Don Pasquale. Watch the video version on my channel: https://youtu.be/szKkiKK6E1M
I recently had a chance to reconnect with the places I was before, and it made me reflect on what I would do differently if I got the chance to go back to college. After going full circle, I want to reflect on my college days, and I hope you learn something along the way!
How do you approach difficult music and put it together? I've had the honor to do quite a lot of new music and world-premieres of pieces from modern-day composers and here are some tips and tricks that I've learned along the way. How do you tackle the challenge of new contemporary music and approach difficult music in general? Do you have tips that I missed or things that worked for you? Let me know in the comments!
Imagine, for a second, if you there was a day where you didn't have social media. What would it look like? What would you be doing? This episode, I sit down with my dear sister Cayla, who is not on social media at all, and we talk about what life is like.
It's musical season—here are a few things to do and NOT to do in your rehearsals!
One of the things that I'm passionate about, especially lately, is helping people with transitions. Specifically, a transition from going from a music major to becoming a professional. Whether it's as a singer, performer, or teacher. Here are some of the things I've learned from my own experience.
This week, I sat down with Calvin Strachan, speaker and coach, to talk all about how to be your best under pressure. He is very passionate about teaching techniques for preventing freezing up during your big moments!
How do you know if your students are improving? Sometimes even us teachers can feel insecure about our skills. When self-doubt and self-sabotage rears its ugly head, we don’t want to feel like we aren’t qualified to teach the students we care for. This one’s for you music teachers out there!
In this special episode of Behind the Red Curtain, I switch places from being the interviewer to the interviewee. One of my good friends Jake Gadomski interviews me in this episode about music, balancing multiple hats, career, and more.
I am super excited to introduce our guest today. Today, we sit down with Taylor Arco, certified life coach to talk about self-sabotage and working through it.
I am so excited to share this video with you! I've been working with so many wonderful old and new friends, colleagues in the music business and amazing professionals to present a compilation of advice that we all have for music majors and recent music grads. This was a group effort and I thought this would have been super nice to have something like this when I was freshly graduated... and so what we can do is we can offer this for those that are doing it now!
This week, I am joined by my husband Paul as we talk about the struggles we noticed about transitioning from a music program to a music career. You get an inside ear into the false sense of security in going through that transition and our thoughts on that, based on our own experiences.
Let’s talk about confidence and why it's important for everyone to have the confidence that they deserve. Trust me, it would make your life so much more fulfilled! It started off when I needed that confidence in being a performer... but it carried over to confidence in being a mother and a teacher. Here are three simple steps to having more confidence.
Today, I want to talk about if you or your student is considering going into performing, whether it be vocal performance, or musical theater... those types of things. I want to give you some tips and tidbits on what to prepare for, and some things that I wish someone would have told me when I was starting out.
What are the most important fundamentals for teaching young singers? Is it even appropriate to teach music to young children and give them music lessons or voice lessons? Today, we talk about some tips and tricks to help you with delivering the voice lessons to younger students who might be a little harder to deal with.
Music majors are some of the most amazing people that I've come across. This is based on a question I've had people ask me several times, which is why do I care about music majors so much?
How do you have more confidence and manage your performance anxiety? Here are some tips you can use to beat that stage fright.
Tune in to our special guest today for the podcast, Katherine Rosenfeld! Katherine is a middle school choir teacher from Arizona who is known for her unique approach toward her profession: by creating TikTok videos and Instagram Reels. She also runs her own private voice studio and sings professionally in church.
Teaching versus performing: Is it one or the other? How does it work? This is one of the things I'm really passionate about, because I believe that you can do both and you can do whatever degree that you want. There's a misconception in the music community about the routes you can take after college. Let's talk about that.
With Black History Month this February, Justin sits down with Chelsea to talk about black history month and all things in between this week.
One of the reasons why I’m really passionate about sharing all of these tips and support in my content is because I have had a few rough transitions in my life. There were a lot of times where I felt very overwhelmed, stressed, and lost in a way. Deciding not to move to New York City and do the grind over there, I made my own path and created my own success, and I want to share what I learned with you.
What do you do if your young dreamer isn't motivated to practice? It doesn't seem like they're enjoy it as much anymore, or maybe you feel like maybe there's some kind of block getting in the way and they're just not into it as much as they used to... what do you do?
There are lots of unkind people like this out there. I saw one comment on one of the dear people in my life and it inspired me to go into this spiral of, "Hey, people who I care about, this is how you deal with negative comments, this is how you win against the negative noises. We can't change them and how they think, but we can change how they respond.
I'm going to pivot a little today and talk to parents, guardians, or supporters of students looking to pursue a career in music. There can be a lot of questions and overwhelm for someone supporting a student and I want to start that conversation with you. Let's start with a question that you can be asking them to clarify a lot for you.
Today, our truth monsters are going to come out. Let's get a little real: today we are going to talk about the truth about performing, and what they don't tell you in university.
Have you ever felt jealous of someone else's success? Has someone else ever gotten something that you really wish you could have gotten, or maybe you felt like you deserved? These are all common things—jealousy, competition—they are all around us in the world... and especially in the world of performing. In this episode, I talk about some tips and techniques that can help with those feelings of jealousy and competition.
What do you do for your date nights? In this episode, you get an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on when we have time without the kids.
