Author - Angela Myles Beeching

Angela Myles Beeching is director of the NEC Career Services Center, an internationally recognized comprehensive career resource office for students and alumni. A Fulbright Scholar and Harriet Hale Woolley grant recipient, Beeching designs and facilitates the Young Performers Career Advancement program for the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' national conference. Beeching has been an invited speaker for the National Association of Schools of Music, Chamber Music America, Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, and the North Carolina School of the Arts, among others. She chairs the education committee on the board of Chamber Music America and locally, serves on the board of the Winchester Community Music School. Beeching's articles have appeared in Chamber Music magazine, Inside Arts, the National Business Employment Weekly, and Managing Your Career, published by the Dow Jones. Her book, [i]Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music[/i], was published by Oxford University Press in January, 2005.

She holds a B.M. from Boston University and M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in violoncello from SUNY/Stony Brook. She studied cello with Timothy Eddy and Roland Pidoux, and studied at the Tanglewood Music Center and Banff Centre for the Arts. She has recorded for Summit, and was on the faculty of California State University/Fresno and the Crane School of Music, SUNY/Potsdam.