It has been a few months since I have updated the world about my life, I apologize. The end of 2013 marked some important changes in my singing life. In the most recent audition season, I sent out nearly 25 applications and was granted five auditions. I am still waiting to hear back from some of those auditions, but as of right now I have no offers on the table. In the interest of understanding my situation and furthering my career along, I had a meeting with my voice teacher to discuss the coming year and what we can do. The answer, primarily, has been to change my repertoire around. Specifically he told me, "You have to start doing things that other singers struggle with." With that statement I have officially moved into the Bel Canto repertoire. My future repertoire finds itself sitting a lot higher, but ultimately feels fairly comfortable in my voice at this point. I am looking forward to the next year with this repertoire and the possibilities it may bring.
Along those same lines, this year I have decided to really increase my work level towards my career. This includes more lessons, coachings, study/practice time, and hopefully more performing. Part of this also concerns my health. I am about 60 pounds overweight and need to work to lower that number considerably before next season. All of this change will involve making a new daily schedule to accommodate everything I have to do on a give day, and planning out what I need to work on when I do work. This year is the year of "working smart."
In the language aspect of my life I have somewhat let that part of my life linger for a while. This technically should be my year for Russian, but I am contemplating going back and trying to further either my French or German. This is partly due to practicality and partly due to money. We shall see where my heart ultimately leads me.
