Sinopsis
Crushing Classical podcast is an ongoing series of provocative interviews with musicians who are pioneering a new path in the classical music genre. I dig into musician's lives who have made an often risky move towards forging a unique path and creating a different kind of music career for themselves. This is particularly challenging in a field where the conventional approach is seeking employment in an orchestra. Join me and learn how others are redefining a thriving classical music career.
Episodios
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Devony Smith and Danny Zelibor: In This Short Life
18/09/2025 Duración: 40minRecognized for her "sensual" and "strong" voice (New York Times), mezzo-soprano Devony Smith is a versatile performer with a wide-ranging repertoire in opera and concert music. Devony is a sought-after collaborator with composers, having premiered works by Grammy-award winning composer Jennifer Higdon, Jake Landau, Eve Beglarian, and Luna Pearl Woolf. This season, Devony has been featured on multiple album releases, including singing the role of the Lover in Kate Soper's Romance of the Rose. She also performs the alto solos on Benjamin Wenzelberg's release of his cantata, Any of those Decembers. This spring, Devony anticipates the release of her debut solo album In This Short Life with pianist Danny Zelibor, which features premiere recordings of works by composers Mark Adamo, Grammy award winning Jennifer Higdon, Jake Landau, Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang, B.E. Boykin, Eve Beglarian, and Will Liverman.Pianist Danny Zelibor, praised for his sensitive and colorful playing, is a
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Happiest Musician Minisode: Being Proud of Your Support
11/09/2025 Duración: 12minI had a real AHA moment in my own life recently, and thought I'd tell you about it. Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by DreamVance.I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. You can read more or hop onto a discovery call from my website. https://jennetingle.com/work-with-meI'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there!
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Nicole Cash: Hornist to Narrator
04/09/2025 Duración: 34minNicole Cash is a highly skilled performer whose training in classical music allows her to captivate audiences and connect people through the power of sound. She served as 3rd Horn with the Dallas Symphony, and Associate Principal Horn of the renowned San Francisco Symphony, until she was diagnosed with focal dystonia, a career-ending repetitive movement disorder.The meandering road of recovery and rediscovery led Nicole to the art of audiobook narration, to which she brings the same keen sense of rhythm, intonation, lyricism, and drama.Nicole delights in voicing the blood-curdling suspense of a dark thriller, the complex characters of literary and historical fiction, and the heart-warming nostalgia of a coming of age story. Her experiences as an African-American woman compel her to share the tangled theories and truths of social science and political justice tomes.As the mother of two young children, Nicole feels right at home bringing to life all sorts of fantastical characters and creatures, and finds grea
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Happiest Musician Minisode: Why YOU Need More Visibility
26/08/2025 Duración: 10minAnd why we ALL need more visibility! People have been asking: is the Happiest Musician Visibility Lab for me if I don't HAVE an audience yet? If I don't KNOW HOW? Visibility is SCARY for all of us but it is the best way I know to build your own career. Let's talk about it! The Happiest Musician Visibility Lab is open for enrollment now! We begin on September 8. https://www.jennetingle.com/hmvl
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Molly Gebrian: the Neuroscience of Practicing
21/08/2025 Duración: 35minDr. Molly Gebrian is a professional violist and scholar with a background in cognitive neuroscience. Her area of expertise is applying the research on learning and memory to practicing and performing music. Her book, Learn Faster, Perform Better: A Musician’s Guide to the Neuroscience of Practicing was published in 2024 by Oxford University Press. As a performer, she prioritizes the works of living composers and those who have traditionally been excluded from the culture of classical music. After a decade of teaching viola at the collegiate level, she joined the faculty at New England Conservatory of Music in Fall 2024.www.mollygebrian.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@DrMollyGebrianhttps://www.instagram.com/mollygebrian/molly.gebrian@gmail.comMake sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by DreamVance.I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. You can read more or hop onto a
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Happiest Musician Minisode: Does it Have to Take Twenty Years?
19/08/2025 Duración: 09minThe story of my reed business is a BORING one, in which for a long time nothing happens. And then suddenly it became a 6 figure revenue stream in which I am able to employ other musicians! What made the magic? Was it just waiting for 20 years of momentum to finally work? Nope. it was visibility. The Happiest Musician Visibility Lab is open for enrollment now! We begin on September 8. https://www.jennetingle.com/hmvl
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What Got You Here...Day Three
16/08/2025 Duración: 15minWhat are the actual action steps that might move you toward your goals? And how might VISIBILITY play into these actions? In this final workshop session, I have a short journaling prompt and an offer for you!The Happiest Musician Visibility Lab is open for enrollment now! We begin on September 8. https://www.jennetingle.com/hmvl
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What Got You Here... Day Two
14/08/2025 Duración: 16minPlease enjoy this snippet of my workshop, What Got You Here Won't Get You There! Don't neglect to actually DO the little journaling prompt in the middle, ok? Of course, the way to be IN THE ROOM and experience the whole thing is to register at the link below.The Happiest Musician Visibility Lab is open for enrollment now! We begin on September 8. https://www.jennetingle.com/hmvl
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What Got You Here... Day One
13/08/2025 Duración: 13minPlease enjoy this snippet of my workshop, What Got You Here Won't Get You There! Don't neglect to actually DO the little journaling prompt in the middle, ok? Of course, the way to be IN THE ROOM and experience the whole thing is to register at the link below.Join me for my FREE three day workshop, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, and find the breakthrough you need to create the career you want. Register at https://jennetingle.kit.com/what-got-you-here to get your invitation or your replay!
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Happiest Musician Minisode: What IS Visibility?
08/08/2025 Duración: 14minI've been talking a lot about Visibility lately, and you might be thinking that it's not for you because you "hate social media" or because you "don't want to be an influencer".What am I actually talking about? Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by DreamVance.I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. You can read more or hop onto a discovery call from my website. https://jennetingle.com/work-with-meI'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there! Join me for my FREE three day workshop, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, and find the breakthrough you need to create the career you want. Register at https://jennetingle.kit.com/what-got-you-here to get your invitation or your replay!
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Happiest Musician Minisode: What Got You Here Won't Get You There
05/08/2025 Duración: 13minJoin me for my FREE three day workshop, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, and find the breakthrough you need to create the career you want. Register at https://jennetingle.kit.com/what-got-you-here to get your invitation or your replay!What Got You Here Won't Get You There. What do I mean by this cryptic statement? I think it means two things, one of which might feel a little bit discouraging, the other of which opens the DOOR to possibility! Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by DreamVance.I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. You can read more or hop onto a discovery call from my website. https://jennetingle.com/work-with-meI'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there!Join me for my FREE three day workshop, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, and find the breakthrough you need to create the career you want.&n
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Katherine Needleman: Oboist, Musician, Arranger, Composer, Etc. Queen of Filth
31/07/2025 Duración: 40minKatherine Needleman is a musician from Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She was introduced to music in the formerly robust music education programs of the public school system, having played violin, clarinet, oboe, keyboards, and percussion there. She was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia at age 16 and dropped out of high school to attend. Later, she was expelled for academic incompetence by the Juilliard School in New York a month after winning their oboe concerto competition. She has played the oboe professionally for a long time now and has observed her own feelings about being one of the few women included change over time. She is very interested in the potential of music and tries to write some herself. She is interested in the relationship between composers, performers, and the stage. Recent musical highlights for Needleman include accompanying her cellist daughter in the Haydn C Major Concerto at a middle school assembly, a recital where most everything felt right and good at a retirem
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Happiest Musician Minisode: What My First Job Taught Me
28/07/2025 Duración: 06minThe summer after high school I worked in a gas station - and the skills I learned have served me ENORMOUSLY well in my professional music career! Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by DreamVance.I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. You can read more or hop onto a discovery call from my website. https://jennetingle.com/work-with-meI'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there!Join me for my FREE three day workshop, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, and find the breakthrough you need to create the career you want. Register at https://jennetingle.kit.com/what-got-you-here to get your invitation or your replay!
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Happiest Musician Minisode: Boldness
24/07/2025 Duración: 10minA story of a time I failed in boldness, failed to give my project the chance it deserved. A cautionary tale for you! And an invitation.Join the waitlist for the Happiest Musician Visibility Lab here! Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by DreamVance.I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. You can read more or hop onto a discovery call from my website. I'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there!Join me for my FREE three day workshop, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, and find the breakthrough you need to create the career you want. Register at https://jennetingle.kit.com/what-got-you-here to get your invitation or your replay!
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Happiest Musician Minisode: FEAR of Visibility
21/07/2025 Duración: 08minI'm talking a lot about Visibility lately - but that's because people are talking to ME about it! This fear, the fear of being seen, is so normal. Here's how it has manifested for me. Are you interested in my Fall program, the Happiest Musician Visibility Lab? Hop on the waitlist and be the first to hear about it! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by DreamVance.You can join my email list HERE, so you never miss an episode!I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. You can read more or hop onto a short discovery call from my website.I'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there!Join me for my FREE three day workshop, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, and find the breakthrough you need to create the career you want. Register at https://jennetingle.kit.com/what-got-you-here to get your invitation or your replay!
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Happiest Musician Minisode: What's Your Bubble?
17/07/2025 Duración: 07minWhere are you avoiding stepping out of your own comfort zone? Where are you keeping yourself safe - but also small - inside your bubble? For early information about the Happiest Musician Visibility Lab, email me or DM! Or put your name on the Visibility Lab Waitlist! Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by DreamVance. I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. You can read more or hop onto a discovery call from my website. https://jennetingle.com/work-with-me I'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there! Join me for my FREE three day workshop, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, and find the breakthrough you need to create the career you want. Register at https://jennetingle.kit.com/what-got-you-here to get your invitation or your replay!
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Mada & Hugh Piano Duo
10/07/2025 Duración: 44minThe Mada & Hugh Piano Duo, composed of Romanian-born pianist Mădălina Dănilă and Korean-American pianist Hugh Sung, captivates audiences worldwide with their innovative 4-hand piano performances. Their award-winning collaboration brings a dynamic range of music, from unique classical pieces to dazzling arrangements of popular tunes. They are proud to be official Petrof Artists, representing the esteemed Czech piano brand known for its warm, romantic tone and exceptional craftsmanship. Mădălina, an internationally acclaimed concert pianist, has triumphed in prestigious competitions such as the International Piano Competition in Vigo and the Charleston 20th Century Music Competition. She was personally invited by renowned violinist Anne Sophie Mutter to perform a solo recital at the prestigious Ruhr Klavierfestival in Germany, marking a significant milestone in her career. Hugh Sung, renowned as one of the finest collaborative pianists of his generation, has performed with eminent musicians and worked exten
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Happiest Musician Minisode: Investing in Your Career
03/07/2025 Duración: 13minYou're going to think that this episode is Jennet geeking out about oboes again - but NO, it will definitely be relevant to YOU. How do you think about investing in yourself and in your career? Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by DreamVance. I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. You can read more or hop onto a discovery call from my website. I'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there! Join me for my FREE three day workshop, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, and find the breakthrough you need to create the career you want. Register at https://jennetingle.kit.com/what-got-you-here to get your invitation or your replay!
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Laura Sinclair: Stress Free Studio!
26/06/2025 Duración: 33minLaura Sinclair is an active performer, Suzuki teacher, speaker, and coach. She is passionate about helping musicians build successful and sustainable teaching studios that support their overall artistic goals. Laura has presented talks around the country in conferences, lecture halls, and virtual spaces for higher education institutions like the New England Conservatory of Music, Lynn Conservatory of Music, the American String Teachers Association, the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and convenings across the country for Jazz Roads for South Arts. Laura also does this through her bespoke coaching program “Stress-Free Studio”. She can be found on the concert stage with ensembles like the Naples Philharmonic, and Atlantic Classical Orchestra, in the pit with Hamilton and other National Broadway tours, and at private events with Elan Artists. A 20-year veteran studio owner, Laura is a former Title I public school strings director. She is presently the music curriculum director for the Volta Music Fo
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Happiest Musician Minisode: Demystifying Entrepreneurship
19/06/2025 Duración: 12minRecently, at a teaching residency, someone asked me how you LEARN to be an entrepreneur! And often, people say to me, BUT JENNET, I'm just not entrepreneurial in that way! I'm here to attest that it's not that hard! That help is available! And that you have what you need already. Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by DreamVance. I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. You can read more or hop onto a discovery call from my website. I'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there! Join me for my FREE three day workshop, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, and find the breakthrough you need to create the career you want. Register at https://jennetingle.kit.com/what-got-you-here to get your invitation or your replay!