Stand Partners for Life

Recent Episodes

006: Stand Partner Feud – Etiquette Do’s and Don’ts

Posted February 4, 2018 • 00:45:55

Let me start by saying that I just spent five minutes looking up the proper and accepted way to spell “do’s and don’ts”, so you can rest assured...

005: What we love (and loathe) about young conductors

Posted January 24, 2018 • 00:46:52

“All music was new music once,” we often have to remind ourselves, and the same is true of conductors: they were all young once upon a time. But...

004: Audition advice for our younger selves

Posted January 7, 2018 • 00:40:58

Everything would have been so easy if we’d just known then what we know now! In this episode, we revisit what auditioning was like back when we started,...

003: Nathan’s journey from Kentucky to Curtis

Posted December 25, 2017 • 00:51:34

Nathan comes from a musical family, which might have saddled him with unmanageable expectations. But his parents were careful to keep things light and...

002: Akiko’s journey from Eastchester to Harvard

Posted December 23, 2017 • 00:37:11

Akiko’s parents aren’t musicians, but that didn’t stop them from wanting her to play an instrument from an early age. So when she was five, she...