@Percussion - 297 - Starting Your Chamber Group with Fabian Ziegler

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Hosts: Ksenija Komljenović, Casey Cangelosi, Ben Charles, and Karli Viña Producer: Ksenija Komljenović Guest: Fabian Ziegler https://fabianziegler.ch/ of Trio Colores https://www.colorestrio.ch/

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00:00 Intro 01:16 Music History for September 16: 1887 Nadia Boulanger birthday, 1976 Elina Garanča birthday, 1977 Maria Callas death, 2006 Bob Dylan becomes the oldest person to top Billboard at age 65 04:05 Best-selling albums of classical music in this century 06:43 Guest intro: Fabian Ziegler 07:47 What’s up, where are you? 08:21 Starting Trio Colores in 2017 09:51 Defining success in a chamber music setting 11:03 How do you find the right people to play with? 12:43 Approach to selecting repertoire 17:13 Any repertoire that you tried arranging for percussion which did not work? 18:53 Roasting Ksenija begins (thanks, Ben) 19:32 Arranging percussion pop hits: Losa, Ghanaia, Catching Shadows 22:09 Why does it matter to come up with program themes? 28:21 Networking 32:05 The role of competitions in Colores Trio’s career 34:06 The importance of international competitions in expanding your career 36:16 How do you get to have such awesome videos? 38:18 How and when do you get management? 43:46 Casey joins and shares some wisdom on getting published/managed 48:42 Finances and chamber groups 53:40 The most challenging thing about having a chamber group 58:18 Upcoming projects to look out for