Skip to content

Xan Perkins

Music Educator / Freelance Musician / Composer and Arranger

  • Media
    • Arrangements
    • Videos
  • Teaching
    • Blog
    • Lessons
    • Brass Exercises
    • Resources
  • Contact
  • About

Author: Xan Perkins

February 4, 2018January 28, 2018Xan Perkins

6 Weeks to Finals – Sharon Sparrow

  Many say that the road to a successful orchestral audition is paved with obtaining many skills not necessarily needed for the job of sitting in the chair after it. Preparing for an audition takes complete knowledge of the repertoire and many varying recordings of each piece of music, complete and total mastery of each […]

Continue Reading "6 Weeks to Finals – Sharon Sparrow"
January 28, 2018Xan Perkins

Why am I doing this?

I ask myself a lot, “why am I doing this?” In fact, I ask myself a lot of questions daily, all stemming out of why. The long list of these questions asking why is way too long for a blog post, even too long for a rant. But a few tend to be, “Why do […]

Continue Reading "Why am I doing this?"
January 28, 2018January 28, 2018Xan Perkins

Mindset – Carol Dweck

Defining success has always been a hot topic among driven professionals. With libraries filled with books on success by every year’s most successful CEO, Business President, Musician, etc, the topic has been approached in many ways, but mostly centered on the idea of working harder than everyone else, sacrificing more of  ___(fill in the blank)___  than […]

Continue Reading "Mindset – Carol Dweck"
January 28, 2018January 28, 2018Xan Perkins

Sunday Morning Blues

As I sit here on an early Sunday morning in January, my mind tosses and turns, thinking about the many other things I could be doing. My mind would tell me to substitute could for should, reminding me that someone else out there might be “hitting the gym” early, sharpening their skills at becoming the next […]

Continue Reading "Sunday Morning Blues"

Find me on social media!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Social

  • View #’s profile on Facebook
  • View wordpressdotcom’s profile on Twitter
  • View #’s profile on Instagram
  • View #’s profile on Pinterest
  • View #’s profile on LinkedIn
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Resources
  • Contact
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com