The Holistic Musicianship Podcast

HM 005 - Conducting a Safe Space with Rick Bertone

Pianist, conductor, and music director Rick Bertone shares about the importance of creating a safe space when working with or leading other musicians and the interplay between our emotions, our physical bodies, and our music. We also speak about several tools for helping with musical perfectionism, comparison, and low self worth.

HM 004 - Music and Nature with Shelley Holland-Moritz

In today’s episode concert violist Shelley Holland-Moritz and I explore music and its connection to nature, working with perfectionism in a healthy way, and tapping into the deeper reasons for why we play music. We also speak about holistically working through performance anxiety and the prevalent use of beta blockers when performing in the professional musician community.

HM 003 - Vocal Ease with Andrew Fuchs

Classically trained singer Andrew Fuchs shares with us several tips and tools for maximizing our vocal potential, and for working through challenges with performance anxieties, insecurities, jealousy, and the physical demands of being a musician.

HM 002 - Music as a Spiritual Path with Carol Emanuel

There is so much potential for personal growth and deeper connection with ourselves through music. My guest - harpist, singer, and songwriter Carol Emanuel has been exploring this for herself for the past 55 years. She shares with us her experience of working through challenges with ego, insecurity, depression, and chronic pain and about how we can cultivate an ever deepening spiritual relationship to music, ourselves, and the whole world through our playing.

HM 001 - From Suffering to Thriving as a Musician

Welcome to the first episode of The Holistic Musicianship Podcast, a show focused on helping musicians thrive in their artform. In this episode, the host Jack Star Rubin shares his story of overcoming many playing related hardships and outlines the intention of the podcast.