As outreach coordinator for HRO, this has helped me direct my music towards kids who just want to hear it and who don't care what I feel about it. In my classes I find a good balance between science and art, between being shy and going on an ego trip, between being a leader and being a follower. It creates humility. If you're a real artist, alone in a studio, there's not much chance to learn leadership skills. If you're fortunate enough to become a teacher, you can begin to address those skills.
Leadership can come from years of suffering in studios.
The focus is on something I really believe in, showing the people I'm working with why I love early music and helping them love it as well. Students in general agreed that people are the true focus of arts leadership. For Jevan Soo '01, business manager of the Opportunes, those people are both the performers and the audience. There is an element of teaching in arts leadership. If you do your job right, you literally work yourself out of a job.