Notes: From French vocal chamber music, to operas of Mozart and Puccini, to musical theater roles like Christine in Phantom and Guinevere in Camelot - your career has encompassed an impressive range of performances and genres!

Interview with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra's Associate Principal Bassist

Meet Carrie Feiner, the exclusive artist manager to pianistic phenom, Sara Buechner.

Feiner is setting a new-wave trend in the music industry that channels the ghosts of great managers past, her work a throwback to an era when classical managers were more than booking agents; a time when they vowed to serve and protect the longevity of their artists’ careers.

A New York City Bassoonist and Integral Yoga Instructor Challenges External Uncertainties with Internal Calm

Notes: Could you describe your life as a musician around the time you began to take an active interest in yoga?

Erik Höltje: You could say it was all part of an "existential dilemma" I was going through at the time: "What am I doing with my life?" I was in my last year of undergraduate studies at Juilliard, I hadn't taken any orchestral auditions, and had applied only to Juilliard for my masters and it was, in a sense, a game of roulette: if I got into the master's program at Juilliard, I'd continue studying music in school, otherwise I didn't know what I was going to do.

March 9, 2009 - New Orleans, LA

We ran into flutist Ryan Rice in the Crescent City and sat down for chicory coffee and piping hot beignets at Cafe du Monde in the French Quarter, after he won the principal flute audition for Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO). LPO is the only musician owned and collaboratively managed professional symphony in the United States.