A Chat with Kelly Riordan

Podcast: The Trained Musician™ · Robert Bosworth

Opublikowano: 2026-10-06

In this installment, your ex-euphonium-playing host is joined by clarinetist and entrepreneur Kelly Riordan to chat about teaching, marketing, and the increasingly suspicious idea that you have to do things the way everyone else has done them. From her private studio which amassed 43 students in three months to a Facebook group that eventually became a business, Kelly gives great insight into the diversified career she has built for herself. The two trained musicians also discuss graduate school burnout, AI-generated emails, how Kelly’s soft palate led to her becoming a medical case study, and whether Ro...