Dealing With Performance Anxiety
If there is one thing classical musicians wish never existed, it ought to be performance anxiety. Eight years on, I still shudder at the thought of my first choir solo. I was so nervous that I choked on my entry - a soloist’s worst nightmare. In front of a crowd of 40, I struggled to muster the energy back to my trembling lips and what came next was just a blur. Eventually, I got better at managing my anxiety as I performed publicly more, and even became comfortable singing f