Past Events – Institute for Music Leadership

Individual Advising with Ali Rose Hotz ’20E (MM) ’23E (DMA)

jdunn — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Join us to connect with Ali Rose Hotz ’20E (MM) ’23E (DMA), soprano, digital marketer, and artist manager. Sign up for a time to chat individually with Ali Rose about working in arts administration while performing and auditioning, digital marketing, and her experience working as an artist liaison!

Praised for her musicianship and shimmering tone, soprano Alexandra Rose Hotz is equally at home on the opera, concert, and recital stage. She has performed as the title role in Handel’s Alcina, Mademoiselle Silberklang in Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor, and Phaino in Kate Soper’s Here be Sirens. This summer, she will join the Music Academy of the West to sing Frasquita in Carmen. The recipient of several awards, she most recently was chosen as a winner of the Los Angeles District of the Laffont Metropolitan Opera Competition, and was also awarded Third Place at the NOA’s Carolyn Bailey Argento Vocal Competition in the Artist Division. A passionate recitalist, Alexandra will join the Cincinnati Song Initiative’s inaugural Fellowship of the Song in May. As a concert soloist, she has performed Stephen Stucky’s Sappho Fragments and Mahler’s Second Symphony as well as oratorios by Handel and Haydn and cantatas by Bach and Tom Cipullo.

A recent graduate of Eastman, Alexandra received the Doctorate of Musical Arts in 2023 and her Masters in 2020 while studying with Professor Anthony Dean Griffey. During her time at Eastman, she co-founded Rechord.co with her fiancé, offering headshot and recording services to Eastman students and the greater Rochester area. She also freelances as a Digital Marketing Specialist and photographer, bringing together her artistry and affinity for business.

S1E12 Marrying Music and the Law: an Interview with Ari Solotoff, Esq.

Kristijan Bogdanovski — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 09:34:51 +0000

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Season 1, Episode 12: Marrying Music and the Law – an Interview with Ari Solotoff, Esq.
Ari Solotoff started off working in orchestras behind the scenes – first as an intern, and then as an orchestra manager. After sitting in on labor negotiations one day, he decided he wanted to go back to school for either an MBA or a law degree. Ultimately, he noticed how almost every decision he and his team were making in the orchestra had legal implications and how interwoven music and the law were. Fast forward one law degree later, and Ari has now started his own firm where he works with musicians, composers, and artists helping them with a variety of legal issues facing the arts community today. Tessa Nojaim – ALP certificate student and Eastman tuba performance student – has also always been fascinated by the law. This winter she applied to both law and music schools hoping to find a school that would let her build her own program around both interests. She talks to Ari about how she can marry the two, and what’s important for any musician to know about the law.

Host: Tessa Nojaim, Stephen Biegner (intro and outro)
Guests: Ari Solotoff
Mixing, Mastering: Frances Inzenhofer
Intro Music: Stephen Biegner
Outro Music: Alexa Silverman
Transcript: Frances Inzenhofer

Links:
Learn more about Ari’s law firm: Solotoff Law

If you think you have a legal issue, you probably do. Don’t just Google randomly for an answer or hope for the best. Find your local Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts group in your state. Here is the group for New York State. And here is a national directory so you can find the organization(s) in your state.

Contact Stephen with questions, comments, or ideas for new episodes.

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S1E10 – A Fly on the Wall: Exploring the Classically Black Podcast

Kristijan Bogdanovski — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:44:45 +0000

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Season 1, Episode 10: A Fly on the Wall: Exploring the Classically Black Podcast
In February of 2018, two students who had been attending Eastman for almost two years – Dalanie Harris and Katie Brown – met for the first time in the Detroit airport. Just nine months later, they’d launched the Classically Black podcast. Now, with over 100 episodes under their belts and a devoted following, Classically Black is growing and still going strong. We learn more about the hosts, what inspired them to start the podcast, and talk about why it was important to create a digital space for black musicians to embrace their blackness.

Host: Stephen Biegner
Guests: Dalanie Harris and Katie Brown
Mixing, Mastering: Frances Inzenhofer
Intro Music and Incidental Music: Stephen Biegner
Outro Music: Alexa Silverman
Transcript: Stephen Biegner

Links:
Listen to Classically Black on SoundCloud (also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms).

Visit the Classically Black Website.

Send Katie and Dalanie an email: classicallyblackpodcast@gmail.com

Read about MSM’s Artist Scholars which include Dalanie and Katie.

The specific episodes we recommended in this show by Katie and Dalanie are: We Tried Matchmaking (Ep. 98), It’s Not High Art, Beloved (Ep. 84), Bach Was a Gospel Artist Too (Ep. 18), Let’s Talk About It: Black Achievement in Classical Music (Ep. 60), Break Up with It (Ep. 66), WAP (We Always Practicing (Ep. 95), We Can’t Breathe…Again (Ep. 85), and finally, The Best of Classically Black (Ep. 100)

Information about IML and PRJC grants due March 1, 2021.

Contact Stephen with questions, comments, or ideas for new episodes.

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