Conquer the Stage: Overcoming Performance Anxiety with Aija Reke
Are you ready to step into the spotlight with confidence?
This livestream designed for musicians and performers grappling with stage fright and performance anxiety. Discover practical strategies to tackle symptoms like shaky hands, nausea, and a dry throat. Learn to harness the power of breath, posture, and mindset to maintain control during performances. Violinist Aija Reke will also discuss pre- and post-performance rituals, as well as share her experience experimenting with diet, supplements and other physical and mental strategies. Embrace this opportunity to transform your stage presence and perform with confidence and poise.
Interact with us live and ask any questions you might have!
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What are the biggest issues for you regarding performance anxiety? Share it here so we can address it! Also, here are some questions to think about in preparation for the workshop. We look forward to seeing you there and interacting!
- What precisely makes you feel nervous about performing?
- How does your body feel when you're anxious?
- What thoughts go through your head right before you perform?
- Have you found anything that helps you feel less nervous before a performance?
- Do you get more anxious performing solo or with others?
- What's one thing you wish you could change about performing?
- Does being anxious affect your practice time, or only stage time?
- Have you ever had a performance where you weren't anxious? What was different?
- What would you like to ask others about handling performance nerves?
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It would be really helpful to address the culture of perfectionism in the classical music world. The “one wrong note and I’ve failed” mindset is detrimental to musical expression, to say the least, yet when professors and competition judges are splitting hairs, it can be difficult to overcome. Once I had a tiny glitch during an otherwise flawless competition performance in which I got second place. A judge literally told me, “You were by far the most musical and talented. But we picked her because she didn’t make any mistakes.”
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Albert how terrible, you should have taken first prize, there is something terribly wrong with judging nowadays
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How to shut up the inner critic.
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How to keep focus on the piano and not to outer environment, and how to deal with emerging hey-you-are-playing-for-people toughs which usually results in loss of focus and mistakes.
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Advice on what to do or think about - say - during the hour leading up to the performance? For me, the waiting part is the worst and nerve just creeps up on its own even though up to that point I might have felt ready with the piece.
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It's been a while I don't perform in public. So, for the next time I decide to be free of anything I used to do or think and welcome a new way to approach that amazing moment!
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Here is Aija's presentation to review: Stage Fright Tonebase January 12 2024 (1)
