OCTOBER 2004 BULLETIN

In this issue:

1. Featured Artist of the Month - Jeffrey Biegel, Pianist
2. Special Report - "IU's art administration program offers experience"
3. Artist Blogs & Discussion Forums
4. MyAuditions Job Search Tools
5. Corporate Services

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482 ACTIVE JOB POSTINGS
1,640 REGISTERED JOB SEEKERS
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1. FEATURED ARTIST OF THE MONTH - JEFFREY BIEGEL, PIANIST
The October featured artist is Jeffrey Biegel, renowned concert pianist, who tours globally with standard, crossover and newly commissioned works. He is also a choral composer and Professor at Brooklyn College. View Jeffrey's profile on the main page of MyAuditions or search our complete list of guest artists at http://www.myauditions.com/artist/searchartist.php.

2. SPECIAL REPORT - "IU ART ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM OFFERS EXPERIENCE"
Arts Administration at Indiana University achieves a balance of artistic and management concerns, of theory and hands-on experience in a community filled with cultural resources. The special report is located on the main page of MyAuditions. Click on a link to view further information on this program or join a discussion on this topic in the open forum.

3. ARTIST BLOGS & DISCUSSION FORUMS
We currently have 238 members contributing to the discussion forums including many professional orchestra members, guest artists, and arts administrators. Join us in the forums and connect with colleagues and professionals on issues affecting the performing arts.

Artist Blogs Hot Topics:
"You never know who's in the hall!"
"Students goals/$$ invested"
By Jeffrey Biegel - Pianist, Professor of Piano, Brooklyn College

"Contract Negotiations"
"Pink Slips in Many Guises"
By Charles Noble - Assistant Principal Viola, Oregon Symphony

"Back to Work"
Allegra Wermuth - Assistant Principal Second Violin, Colorado Symphony

Open Forum hot topics:
- IU's art admin program offers experience
- SF Symphony auditions
- Eastman IML program
- Performance Enhancing Drugs for Musicians?
- Playing for keeps
- The Three Conductors
- Chorus members trying to save Florida Philharmonic
- Symphony members offer a peek
- The composers within the orchestra
- Professional Development for Musicians
- Sex, Crossover Artists, and Oh Yea, More Sex
- Orchestra Issue & the work culture
- Seattle Concertmaster
- UK Orchestras musicians at risk
- Philly musicians in contract talks
- First audition approaching...help?!
- CSO Musicians

There are a combined 408 topics and 1,995 posts in the forums. To access the forums, please point your browser to http://myauditions.com/eve/

4. MYAUDITIONS JOB TOOLS
MyAuditions Job Search Tools gives Web site publishers access to the largest performing arts jobs database on the Web. By inserting a few lines of code into their Web pages, visitors can search directly from a publishers Web site. The free Job Search Tool code is available to all members at http://www.myauditions.com/link.htm

5. CORPORATE SERVICES
For a complete list of our corporate services, please refer to http://www.myauditions.com/about/services.htm or contact us for further discussions.

We appreciate your support of the MyAuditions community! Please tell your friends, colleagues, schools and fellow performing arts organizations about our services.

Staff@MyAuditions
MyAuditions - Performing Arts Career Resources
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