August 16-21, 2009

You Choose

Is there a difference between what you can do and what you actually do in “performance” situations? Most people blame onstage blunders on their technique. Jeff believes if you EVER played it well in the practice room, then onstage experiences, good or bad, are 100% the result of a person’s mental training. Imagine walking on stage full of optimism and looking around the hall thinking, “Hello, and welcome to my living room! Just relax and enjoy this wonderful music.”

Now imagine picking up your horn and performing at the level of your best ability. Jeff lives and performs in this free state of selective naïveté, and he has become an expert in teaching others how to do this as well.

In this six-day seminar, Jeff shares his wisdom and wit about why you always have a choice and how you can train yourself to consistently make good choices. These choices begin with, well, signing up for this seminar! During the seminar we examine what bad and good choices we presently make. More importantly, we look at how making good choices in the practice room, in your performances, and in your life can ultimately replace fear. These fearless choices raise your level of excellence and consistency. Choosing to live as fearlessly as possible can make what you can do into what you actually do.

FEARLESS AUDITION TRAINING FOR MUSICIANS is open to professionals, students, and teachers interested in becoming fearless performers.

During this six-day seminar, participants will learn ‘fearless tools’ which build consistency in performing optimally in any situation.  Training will take place in the environment that holds the most potential for a fearful experience – an audition!

Extensive preparation and performance experience in an audition setting will be the focus of the seminar.   Frequent mock auditions will include pre-performance coaching, videotaping of participants' auditions, and post-performance critiques…followed by more mock auditions.

Jeff will share his fearless auditioning techniques throughout the seminar in lecture, master class and private lesson settings.

	Choose music over fear! Participants and Auditors must be over 18. No Audition process for entry into seminar Extensive audition process during seminar!