Week Six - Lindsey Goodman - Behind The Curtain: A Musician's Life and Preparation - Worthington, OH 2025

While we all love to enjoy a polished performance of a great work of music, many music lovers are not aware of the many layers of a musician’s process to arrive at the finished product they share with us on stage or in recordings. Isn’t musicians’ work just play? Why is “talent” a dirty word? How *do* you get to Carnegie Hall? From decades of training to daily life juggling a portfolio career, musicians are elite small-muscle athletes who wear a number of professional hats. Experience a peek behind the curtain of a musician’s life and preparation with flutist Lindsey Goodman to learn about professional musicians’ lives and careers and to fully appreciate everything that goes into bringing the performances you love to your ears. (Spoiler: musicians love performing for you as much as you love hearing them!) This session will include performances of signature works from Ms. Goodman’s repertoire. Flutist Lindsey Goodman is a soloist, recording artist, chamber collaborator, orchestral musician, educator, and clinician who has performed concerts, taught masterclasses, and given presentations across three continents, including at Carnegie Hall, Eastman School of Music, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Google headquarters, University of Cincinnati College–Conservatory of Music, National and Canadian Flute Association conventions, across China, and on the Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone podcast. A committed advocate for living composers and electroacoustic music, Lindsey is an active commissioner of new works with 215 world premieres to her credit. Her first and second solo albums, Reach Through the Sky and Returning to Heights Unseen, feature commissioned pieces, and her third and fourth solo albums, Etereo and In the Company of Music, feature works by living American composers. Lindsey has given recitals in New York City, performed concertos across the United States and Canada, and been featured in live and recorded radio broadcasts on stations