Gilda Joffe

Author/Executive Female Coach/Former Professional musician

Gilda Joffe has been teaching and coaching for more than 25 years and profoundly understands the emotional difficulties and fears which executives and performers, in any arena, experience. She has worked with hundreds of people who wish to improve and develop their creative potential and confidence whether in the boardroom or the stage.

Gilda received her B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Juilliard School of Music in New York where her principal teachers included Joseph Fuchs as well as Joel Krosnick and Robert Mann of The Juilliard String Quartet. While in New York she also studied extensively with Barbara Krakauer, a former student of Ivan Galamian. As a member of the Baroque Invention and other chamber ensembles, she performed regularly in Carnegie Recital Hall (now Weill Recital Hall), Merkin Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York. She also performed several times in Zino Francescatti's Master Classes in Aix-en-Provence, France, and was heard often on French Radio.
After graduating from Juilliard, Gilda played many solo and chamber music performances throughout the United States and Europe including Italy, France, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Latvia. During her tenure in Sweden as a member of the Swedish Radio Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen, she performed and toured frequently throughout Europe including performances at the London Proms Festival, The Paris Opera and the Musikverein in Vienna. She also performed with numerous other chamber and symphonic ensembles including New Stockholm's Chamber Orchestra, and The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. Prior to her position in Sweden, she held a first violin position with the Danish Radio Orchestra in Copenhagen.
Gilda is the author of Dancing With Your Muse: Inner Magic to Release Fear and Embrace Creativity ( Exisle Publishing Nov. 2021).

Fear of failure is a universal issue that can hold even the most talented of people back from reaching their full potential. Dancing with Your Muse is a series of thirty essays which speak about the common and debilitating anxieties encountered on the path to creative expression.
Written in a gentle, contemplative tone, this book will encourage you to determine and strive for success on your own terms. Performers, business people, students, and everyday dreamers alike will learn to courageously choose the most direct pathways to creative success and, more importantly, personal fulfillment, holding only a desire to contribute fully to their own life.