Why I'm Starting This Blog

What I Hope It Becomes

I’ve spent years performing, teaching, arranging, building curriculum, earning qualifications, and navigating multiple musical worlds from the stage to the seminar room. After being conferred my doctorate in music education, it felt like the right moment to begin documenting that journey more intentionally.

This blog is my personal archive. It’s a space to unpack the ideas that shape my practice - reflecting on the value of performance diplomas, doing bar gigs and wedding gigs, decoding what academic fellowships actually mean, or exploring what it takes to teach music at the highest level across multiple instruments, cultures, and institutions.

I’m writing for fellow educators, serious students, multi-instrumental musicians, and anyone with any stake of claim in the arts and culture. Some of these posts will be reflective. Others are practical. Some deeply personal. All of them are grounded in lived experience.

This is not a how-to blog. It’s a why-I-do blog. And if any part of it helps you, it’s already done its job.

Welcome.

— Dr Eugene S