Music Network presents Taking Charge of your Performance Career 2020: Performing Online, a series of five free interactive web seminars for professional musicians, 10th–16th December.

With four webinars and one panel discussion, this free professional development course aims to help musicians develop important skills for showcasing their work online. This is the second instalment of Music Network’s Taking Charge of your Performance Career series this year, and follows on from 8 seminars which took place in April and May.

Delivered by international industry professionals, the course will offer relevant and up-to-date advice in the areas of planning online performances, optimising your audio and video output, choosing the right platform, and extending your online practice. Each online session will comprise a 60 minute presentation followed by Q&A with participants. Registration is essential to participate in the sessions. To register your spot visit: www.musicnetwork.ie.

Speaking live from New York, music industry writer and entrepreneur Lisa Occhino will present the opening talk of the series, outlining the key considerations for musicians performing online. 

Lisa’s talk will offer practical advice to enable musicians to make strategic decisions around their digital output, touching on questions such as ‘What type of content can musicians stream? Why should you do it? What are your goals? Where are your audience and how can you reach them? How is it different to ‘real life’ performance? What’s to be gained or lost? What does successful streaming look/sound like?’ This presentation will both explore where new trends are leading the music industry and highlight elements of best practice for musicians performing online.

Seminar is free, advance registration required.

See the full list of online seminars below:

10th December 2pm – Performing Online: An Overview with Lisa Occhino: bit.ly/3lbyE7Q
11th December 2pm – Optimising your Audio with Mairéad O’Reilly: bit.ly/3o0Xuc7
14th December 11am – Optimising your Video with Simon Peter King: bit.ly/3fGmann
15th December 11am – Choosing Your Platform with David Taylor: bit.ly/3l5O6Ck
16th December 11am – Extending your Practice Online with Liz Doherty, Xenia Pestova Bennett and Gwendolyn Masin: bit.ly/37dI0L9