Alecia Lawyer: Practice to Remove Your Limitations, Not to Get It Right

Alecia Lawyer is an oboist who went from a small East Texas town to Juilliard, hit the wall of an audition circuit where you wait for someone to die to get a job, and then built her own professional ensemble, ROCO, in Houston. She talks about what music education in Texas actually taught her, why she practices to remove limitations rather than to be perfect, and the years of rejection between Juilliard and starting something of her own. Useful if you are trying to make a living in a field with almost no open positions and are deciding whether to keep auditioning or build your own thing.

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