What's Next?

It has been a little while since I last posted, and things have been good, albeit a little quiet. I'm pursuing this piano career, uncertain of where it might take me next, and realizing more and more that success in this field requires a good deal of luck and a knack for self-promotion. I'm not the best at promoting myself, and I'm not sure if it's some sort of humility or just an underlying issue with self-confidence. Either way, I seem to pull through time and time again, somehow.

I'm just made up new CDs and I'm in the process of trying to send them out to concert series in hopes of getting some concerts lined up. You see, this is the first time in my recollection that I have not had something coming up next. I'm looking at a blank slate, with no scheduled concerts or competitions on the horizon. This does not mean that I'm quitting or that I'm in a state of hopelessness, it just means that I have to put forth more effort to do some of this self-promotion that I'm not very good at!

So far, I have sent out 1 CD to a concert series, and I have 1 more ready to go. This is not good enough. I really need to send out 40-100 CDs and hope that I might be able to get a handful of concerts lined up. Self-promotion...I didn't know what I was getting into when I started all this. Somehow, I thought that if I was naturally talented and worked hard, that concerts would fall into place for me. This is why people have managers. But for now, I'm my own manager. And that needs to suffice.