Professional Performance Mentoring

I am a professional violinist and performance mentor. I work with musicians and performers in the arts to prepare for and cope with performing under pressure. Professional Performance Mentoring can not only help you tackle and overcome performance anxiety but can help you perform at your best and achieve your full potential when under pressure. Whilst at music college, I became particularly interested in the area of music psychology when preparing for competitions, exams and concerts. As I engaged with these psychological techniques, I noticed a shift in my mind, (which had a knock-on effect on my playing) from being in the practice room to being on the stage, soon realising that in order to perform as I wanted, a lot of my preparation was happening mentally. I realised that if my mind was not in the right place, or I had only prepared technically and not mentally, then my performance was affected. This combination I feel, is the key to a successful performance. It is an area that is often not spoken about within the music industry, however, its parallel in sport is spoken about, explored in great depth and is of great importance! This inspired me to start my research into this area and become a Performance Mentor. I believe that there are many people that could benefit from this work, whether to help particular problems such as interfering nerves, or to generally enhance performance.