Stacy Garrop’s award-winning music is centered on dramatic and lyrical storytelling. Stacy shares stories by taking audiences on sonic journeys – some simple and beautiful, while others are complicated and dark – depending on the needs and dramatic shape of the story. After teaching composition full-time at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University from 2000-2016, she stepped down from her position to become a freelance composer. She is also on the composition faculty of the annual Fresh Inc Festival in Milwaukee, WI, a two-week summer program sponsored by Fifth House Ensemble.
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Composer Stacy Garrop discusses the art of emailing conductors and jumping feet-first into the freelance life.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Choosing the thing to dedicate your time to
- Being prepared to leap into self-employment & freelance work
- Email campaigns
- A script for cold emails
- Personalizing the emails
- Tailoring your bio with social proof
- Statistics tracking
- Hidden pages on your website
- Websites
- Being detail oriented
- Securing the score online
- Freelancing
- Daniel Felsenfeld
- Hustling
- Reaching out to five people every day
- Approaching performers
- Fear of self-employment
- Royalty income
- Answering every email within 24 hours
- Constantly keep learning
- Figure out your communication method and stick to it
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Recommended Reading:
- Orson Scott Card, Characters & Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing)
- Ann McCutchan, The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About The Creative Process
- Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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