HCP 14: Anna Diemer on How To Be Organized and Take Baby Steps to Further Your Career as a Choral Singer
Anna Diemer is a professional soprano living in Houston. She is a soloist, choral singer, voice teacher, and Houston Symphony Chorus Manager. Anna shares with us her ways to manage and succeed at the many activities in her life, musical and not, the ensembles that she performs with, and how to take baby steps to always keep growing and reaching further in her life as a singer.
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In this episode, you will learn:
- Anna’s first memories in music, and in choir
- How choral music help her make the decision to pursue a career as a singer
- The time when she moved to Houston on a whim!
- How’s an attorney job helped her learning organization skills to use for her life as a musician
- Apps that help her
- How Anna schedules most of her activities in her calendar to stay on top of things
- Our career is a journey and there is a lot of learning in the process
- Discover what works for you to stay proactive
- “Early is on time”
- The balance between delicious meal prep and the gym
- What she wishes she had done before or earlier after moving
- Baby steps are ok and how they’ve help her career
- The healthy way to keep growing as an artist
- It is ok to change your mind
- How teaching can make you a better performer and remind you techniques that you want to apply to your own career
- It is ok to enjoy the things that you do
- Funny concert set ups
- What Anna Wishes Singers would do and that is new to her
- What she wants from composer of vocal music
- Anna’s wishes to learn conducting and what she wants from a conductor
- Opera on tap and Casulana’s Concert
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- Do you take baby steps to keep growing as an artist?
Links mentioned in the show:
- Anna Diemer Website
- Anna Diemer Social Media: Instagram, Facebook.
- Casulana’s Website
- Opera on Tap Houston
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Produced by Carlos Cordero.
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