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When I was starting out in college, I figured that I would grow up to be the world’s greatest Band Director. Marching Band was great, I loved to listen to music, and those people in church always seemed so-o-o-o friendly after I played…yeah – you guessed it: I was clueless. In my junior year of […]

How I became an entrepreneur and put together what is amazingly a full-time music career! I was very talented and loved playing, but my parents said I did not practice enough and I would not become a major violin soloist. So I went to a liberal arts college, studied biology, played in the college orchestra, […]

I founded Tales & Scales in 1986 with a handful of fellow orchestra musicians (Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra in Indiana – my first flute job out of university) because I was unimpressed with how orchestras and chamber musicians were dealing with programming for young people. Generally the programming at the time did not seem to respect […]

My name is Robert DiLutis and I am the owner of The Reed Machine, as well as a clarinetist with the Rochester Philharmonic and a teacher at the Eastman School of Music. I began my involvement in reed making back when I was in middle school, making hand-made clarinet reeds. Over the course of the […]

We’re living and making music in a very, very exciting time right now, a time in which the marriage of entrepreneurship with a career in the arts is becoming not a strategy but a way of life for my generation of young musicians. I feel fortunate to be a part of this movement, to be […]

I’m approaching music entrepreneurship from the vantage point of a music career advisor. My day job is working with music students and alumni on advancing their careers, and this often involves entrepreneurial projects, so I’m happy to be part of this discussion! My background is as a cellist — I studied at Boston University, New […]

What is Entrepreneurship and Why Should We Care? For the next few weeks we will be talking about entrepreneurship here on Polyphonic. I’ve noticed that the word “entrepreneur” is seen in print and heard in conversations more and more lately. I just googled it, (that word seems to be a verb now-a-days), and found nearly […]

Yvonne Caruthers and I are co-moderating this discussion about musicians as entrepreneurs, and we want to let you know the sort of entrepreneurial things we do, when we’re not playing our instruments in our respective orchestras. Editor in Chief Ray Ricker has written an excellent overview of the topic, so we’ll let him introduce the […]

To end I just wanted to make a few comments on some other topics and thank you for asking me to participate. I belong to 4 locals but I don’t mind the structure as each local has such individualized issues. They understand on a local level what our needs are. It is expensive, but we […]

I got married on September 17, 1995. My sister got married one year before me on September 18. Why? Because all the regional orchestras around here usually start their seasons in late September or early October. My family and non-musician friends are used to consulting me about my schedule when they are planning events and […]