“The other day, I posted something on my professional Facebook page about entrepreneurship and my compositional activities,” writes composer and educator Jeffrey Nytch on Thursday (6/14) at Oxford University Press’s website. “In recent years entrepreneurship has become an over-used buzzword.… Given this dynamic, clearing up common misunderstandings about the nature of entrepreneurship and how it can operate within our careers… I offer … reasons why entrepreneurship is essential to a classical music career. Entrepreneurship helps you identify opportunities [that] exist completely outside the arts and culture sector. For instance, is there a … social need that could be addressed through music (engaging the homeless or the incarcerated)? …Entrepreneurship requires creativity.… Let’s say you’ve identified a big civic event in your community, but it’s not immediately clear how your string quartet might be a part of it. That’s where creative problem-solving comes into play…. Entrepreneurship allows flexibility…. Oftentimes, the core of our idea is strong, but there’s some aspect of the customer experience we’ve overlooked that prevents it from succeeding…. Entrepreneurship gives us options. There are any number of studies documenting the fact that the vast majority of folks end up pursuing more than one career path over the course of their working lives.”
Posted June 20, 2018
