web02.fireside.fm Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:44:33 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Studio Class - Episodes Tagged with “New Music” https://studioclass.fireside.fm/tags/new%20music Sun, 13 May 2018 07:00:00 -0500 Welcome to Studio Class – I'm Megan Ihnen, your friendly mezzo-soprano, teacher, writer, and arts entrepreneur. Together, we'll dive deep into the strategies and tactics of classical singing and composition. Think of me as your "diva sidekick", distilling essential insights in the realms of classical singing, opera, and new music. Whether it's dissecting the nuances of performance or uncovering the habits of successful creatives, we're here to streamline your path to excellence. In this podcast, we transcend the ordinary studio class experience, diving deep into the essential business elements that often get overlooked in the world of classical music. Megan's passion for empowering fellow musicians, both vocalists and composers, shines through, making Studio Class your go-to resource for achieving excellence in your artistic endeavors. Micro Action Monday episodes are short 'how-to' style guides offering actionable entrepreneurship information. For an in-depth look into the journeys of successful professionals, tune in to Masterclass episodes where working artists share how they created, maintain, and expand their careers in today's music industry. Whether you're a singer, composer, or someone curious about the intersection of tradition and innovation in the performing arts, Studio Class is here to guide you towards a sparkling and focused career. Don't miss the diva-approved wisdom that awaits you on Studio Class with Megan Ihnen. en-us episodic Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer Welcome to Studio Class – I'm Megan Ihnen, your friendly mezzo-soprano, teacher, writer, and arts entrepreneur. Together, we'll dive deep into the strategies and tactics of classical singing and composition. Think of me as your "diva sidekick", distilling essential insights in the realms of classical singing, opera, and new music. Whether it's dissecting the nuances of performance or uncovering the habits of successful creatives, we're here to streamline your path to excellence. In this podcast, we transcend the ordinary studio class experience, diving deep into the essential business elements that often get overlooked in the world of classical music. Megan's passion for empowering fellow musicians, both vocalists and composers, shines through, making Studio Class your go-to resource for achieving excellence in your artistic endeavors. Micro Action Monday episodes are short 'how-to' style guides offering actionable entrepreneurship information. For an in-depth look into the journeys of successful professionals, tune in to Masterclass episodes where working artists share how they created, maintain, and expand their careers in today's music industry. Whether you're a singer, composer, or someone curious about the intersection of tradition and innovation in the performing arts, Studio Class is here to guide you towards a sparkling and focused career. Don't miss the diva-approved wisdom that awaits you on Studio Class with Megan Ihnen. no classical singing, opera, new music, music entrepreneurship, creative professional, performing arts Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer info@meganihnen.com Episode 20: Outcomes, Not (Mindless) Activities https://studioclass.fireside.fm/20 ed800de8-9f65-4e0d-8562-f09f32d016fc Sun, 13 May 2018 07:00:00 -0500 Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer full Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer "Performance begins with focusing on outcomes instead of activities. In my experience, most people do the reverse. They concentrate their efforts on the pursuit of activities instead of outcomes." Tired of the relentless busy-ness of being a musician? Let's re-focus on outcomes and avoid the temptation of mindless activity, divas, with the help of Douglas K. Smith's book "Make Success Measurable! A Mindbook-Workbook for Setting Goals and Taking Action." 47:59 no “Make Success Measurable enables you to avoid activity-based goals that can go on indefinitely, and articulate aggressive outcome-based goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.” “This is a how-to book, emphasizing outcomes as opposed to actions in setting goals.” Get the book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471295590/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0471295590&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=mezzoihnen-20&amp;linkId=d721816f55c5378cd4241b3a508de3e4">Make Success Measurable!: A Mindbook-Workbook for Setting Goals and Taking Action</a><img src="//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=mezzoihnen-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0471295590" width="1" height="1" alt=""> Haven't read "BURNOUT IS A B****. LET’S AVOID IT."? Check it out: https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/burnout-is-a-b-lets-avoid-it/ Find me online: @mezzoihnen (http://www.twitter.com/mezzoihnen) The Sybaritic Singer (http://www.sybariticsinger.com) &amp; Blog (http://www.sybariticsinger.com/blog) “Make Success Measurable enables you to avoid activity-based goals that can go on indefinitely, and articulate aggressive outcome-based goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.” “This is a how-to book, emphasizing outcomes as opposed to actions in setting goals.”

Get the book: ```
Make Success Measurable!: A Mindbook-Workbook for Setting Goals and Taking Action


Haven't read "BURNOUT IS A B****. LET’S AVOID IT."? Check it out: https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/burnout-is-a-b-lets-avoid-it/

Find me online:
[@mezzoihnen](http://www.twitter.com/mezzoihnen)
[The Sybaritic Singer](http://www.sybariticsinger.com) & [Blog](http://www.sybariticsinger.com/blog)
]]> “Make Success Measurable enables you to avoid activity-based goals that can go on indefinitely, and articulate aggressive outcome-based goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.” “This is a how-to book, emphasizing outcomes as opposed to actions in setting goals.”

Get the book: ```
Make Success Measurable!: A Mindbook-Workbook for Setting Goals and Taking Action


Haven't read "BURNOUT IS A B****. LET’S AVOID IT."? Check it out: https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/burnout-is-a-b-lets-avoid-it/

Find me online:
[@mezzoihnen](http://www.twitter.com/mezzoihnen)
[The Sybaritic Singer](http://www.sybariticsinger.com) & [Blog](http://www.sybariticsinger.com/blog)
]]> Episode 19: Everyone Performs https://studioclass.fireside.fm/19 1fc4374c-5e36-418c-8841-51aace5de65d Sun, 06 May 2018 07:00:00 -0500 Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer full Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer Today, we’re relying on the wisdom of Barbara Townley and Nic Beech in their book “Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox.” This episode covers topics such as audience building in opera and new music, collaborative creativity, creative placemaking, and how user-generated content means that audiences have different expectations of artistic experiences. 38:06 no Examining the role of the audience in the creative process, emphasizing its creative role, and how much the "receiver" brings to the process of communication and the implication this has for practice. "Everyone, performer and audience, plays a creative role. Everyone 'performs'." Sources: Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox edited by Barbara Townley and Nic Beech Creative Industries: Contracts Between Art and Commerce by Richard E. Caves Connect with Megan online: The Sybaritic Singer (http://www.sybariticsinger.com) @mezzoihnen (http://www.twitter.com/mezzoihnen) Examining the role of the audience in the creative process, emphasizing its creative role, and how much the "receiver" brings to the process of communication and the implication this has for practice.

"Everyone, performer and audience, plays a creative role. Everyone 'performs'."

Sources:
Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox edited by Barbara Townley and Nic Beech
Creative Industries: Contracts Between Art and Commerce by Richard E. Caves

Connect with Megan online:
The Sybaritic Singer
@mezzoihnen

]]> Examining the role of the audience in the creative process, emphasizing its creative role, and how much the "receiver" brings to the process of communication and the implication this has for practice.

"Everyone, performer and audience, plays a creative role. Everyone 'performs'."

Sources:
Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox edited by Barbara Townley and Nic Beech
Creative Industries: Contracts Between Art and Commerce by Richard E. Caves

Connect with Megan online:
The Sybaritic Singer
@mezzoihnen

]]> Episode 18: Get a lay of the land https://studioclass.fireside.fm/18 5cce2982-9a32-4657-8cf3-5dfbc5fe6927 Sun, 29 Apr 2018 07:00:00 -0500 Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer full Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer In this we’re taking a different approach. It’s been a little while since I’ve posted a new episode and I want to tell you about that. Then, we’re going to rely on the wisdom of Ellen Highstein and her book “Making Music in Looking Glass Land” to help us get “a lay of the land” for us that are out there performing and composing our little hearts out. BURNOUT IS A B****. LET’S AVOID IT. article for NewMusicBox - https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/burnout-is-a-b-lets-avoid-it/ 42:29 no Divas, would you like to see me in your hometown? I’m putting together a tour of residencies and workshops for schools and institutions. I’d love to visit yours and do some of this work together in real life. It’s easy to get a hold of me, just head on over to http://sybariticsinger.com/services/ and fill in the contact form. Divas, would you like to see me in your hometown? I’m putting together a tour of residencies and workshops for schools and institutions. I’d love to visit yours and do some of this work together in real life. It’s easy to get a hold of me, just head on over to http://sybariticsinger.com/services/ and fill in the contact form.

]]> Divas, would you like to see me in your hometown? I’m putting together a tour of residencies and workshops for schools and institutions. I’d love to visit yours and do some of this work together in real life. It’s easy to get a hold of me, just head on over to http://sybariticsinger.com/services/ and fill in the contact form.

]]> Episode 17: How To Change The World Through Classical Music - Part II https://studioclass.fireside.fm/17 6439e244-963f-4362-8ef9-3b4d75064031 Sun, 27 Aug 2017 10:00:00 -0500 Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer full Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer I’m attempting to answer one of my own big questions, “How Do You Change The World Through Classical Music?” Yes. It’s a hefty topic. I have had this nagging feeling that I need to devote some of my attention to how my art can be a force for good and world events don’t seem to be slowing that need or quieting that internal voice at all. It’s getting louder and more insistent. Divas, not only do I want to help you make it rain in your business but I want to help you change the world while you’re at it. 25:23 no Join me for the second part of our “Change the World” music project episode! In our last episode we started discussing: 1) How can music influence the body to support fitness and rehabilitation? 2) How can music motivate the mind to promote academic achievement? In this episode we will be going over some questions including: 1) How can music reflect the psyche to improve mental health? 2) How can music foster intimacy to strengthen relationships? 3) How can music enhance connectedness to support communities? Show Notes: - Garrison Keillor - "Good Poems and Good Poems for Hard Times” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/garrison-keillor - Twyla Tharp’s “The Creative Habit” http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Creative-Habit/Twyla-Tharp/9780743235273 - Voice of Calvary Ministries in Jackson, MS http://vocm.org/volunteer-opportunities/ - Urban Servant Corps in Denver, CO. http://www.urbanservantcorps.org/ - Single Words She Once Loved Recital - Megan Ihnen - https://www.facebook.com/events/1731284407149648 - Theaster Gates - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/theaster-gates-ingenuity-awards-chicago-180957203/#UkWBeOBJ5cpShR5v.99 - Theaster Gates videos: https://www.google.com/search?q=theaster+gates&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=vid&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjjifEsXVAhVD1oMKHeQlCgIQ_AUIDCgD&amp;biw=1157&amp;bih=736 SybariticSinger.com SybariticSinger.com/services Join me for the second part of our “Change the World” music project episode!
In our last episode we started discussing:
1) How can music influence the body to support fitness and rehabilitation?
2) How can music motivate the mind to promote academic achievement?

In this episode we will be going over some questions including:
1) How can music reflect the psyche to improve mental health?
2) How can music foster intimacy to strengthen relationships?
3) How can music enhance connectedness to support communities?

Show Notes:

SybariticSinger.com
SybariticSinger.com/services

]]> Join me for the second part of our “Change the World” music project episode!
In our last episode we started discussing:
1) How can music influence the body to support fitness and rehabilitation?
2) How can music motivate the mind to promote academic achievement?

In this episode we will be going over some questions including:
1) How can music reflect the psyche to improve mental health?
2) How can music foster intimacy to strengthen relationships?
3) How can music enhance connectedness to support communities?

Show Notes:

SybariticSinger.com
SybariticSinger.com/services

]]> Episode 15: What Are Your Diva Metrics? https://studioclass.fireside.fm/15 128c8e58-cf6d-4949-9c72-9ea05cfafc6a Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:00:00 -0500 Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer full Megan Ihnen | The Sybaritic Singer In this 15th episode, I’m answering a listener question! Mary, who goes by the artist name Alarke, asked me, “What metrics do you use to monitor your growth and how often do you check them? Do you outsource help?" 25:17 no As Annie Dillard wrote in her incredible book The Writing Life, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.” In this episode we go over: - My 10 Minute Meeting Formula - My Master List of Micro-Actions - My Singer Goals (Model Tasks) List ... and more! Are you signed up for my email newsletter? Check it out at bit.ly/DivaSidekick As Annie Dillard wrote in her incredible book The Writing Life, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.”

In this episode we go over:

  • My 10 Minute Meeting Formula
  • My Master List of Micro-Actions
  • My Singer Goals (Model Tasks) List ... and more!

Are you signed up for my email newsletter? Check it out at bit.ly/DivaSidekick

]]> As Annie Dillard wrote in her incredible book The Writing Life, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.”

In this episode we go over:

  • My 10 Minute Meeting Formula
  • My Master List of Micro-Actions
  • My Singer Goals (Model Tasks) List ... and more!

Are you signed up for my email newsletter? Check it out at bit.ly/DivaSidekick

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