Feeding the Starving Artist: Finding Success as an Arts Entrepreneur

About Feeding the Starving Artist: Finding Success as an Arts Entrepreneur

The Feeding the Starving Artist podcast offers students and emerging creative artists tips and strategies to develop and build a sustainable career in the arts. Drs. Rick Goodstein and Ron McCurdy, authors of "The Artist Entrepreneur: Finding Success in a New Arts Economy", share 80 years of experience as performing artists, conductors, arts educations, musicians, arts administrators, and friends. Whether you're a musician, visual artist, writer, actor, technician or dancer, Feeding the Starving Artist has strategies for anyone interested in a sustainable arts career.

Publisher

Rick Goodstein

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Nov 2023

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

86 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Seth Parker Woods, pt. 2

   We continue our coversation with Seth Parker Woods to kick off the 5th season of the Feeding the Starving Artist Podcast! Hailed by The Guardian as “a cellist of power and grace” who possesses “mature artistry and willingness to go to the brink,” the multi Grammy-nominated cellist has established his reputation as a versatile artist and innovator across multiple genres. As The New York Times  wrote, “Woods is an artist rooted in classical music, but whose cello is a vehicle that takes him, and his concertgoers, on wide-ranging journeys.”  Also at the forefront of fashion, Woods has topped “best-dressed” lists in Variety, Texas Monthly, and the OC Register. Woods has served on the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music since 2022 and was appointed Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music in 2024. Among the highlights of his 2024/25 season, Woods performs in the world premiere of Nathalie Joachim’s cello concerto Had to Be at Spoleto Festival USA, later performing its New York premiere in his debut with the New York Philharmonic. He performed the East Coast premiere of Rebecca Saunders’ cello concerto Ire  with The Next Festival of Emerging Artists and made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut in the world premiere of a cello concerto by Julia Adolphe. A core member of the music collective Wild Up, Woods performs as a soloist in the group’s Grammy-nominated Eastman Project: Eastman Vol. 4: The Holy Presence, released June 2024 on New Amsterdam Records. Woods is featured alongside flutist Claire Chase on a recording of music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir on New Focus Recordings. During the 2023/24 season, Woods brought his Grammy-nominated, autobiographical tour de force Difficult Grace to San Diego and Philadelphia, following the world premiere at New York’s 92nd Street Y and performances at UCLA and Chicago’s Harris Theater the previous season.  Difficult Grace was released as an album on Cedille Records in 2023 and was nominated for the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. Woods also performed the Boston premiere of Thorvaldsdottir’s UBIQUE at Harvard University and was featured in performances with violinist Hilary Hahn at Konzerthaus Dortmund in Germany. With American Modern Opera Company, Woods toured a new version of John Adams’ El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered. In addition to solo performances, Woods has appeared with the Atlanta and Seattle symphonies, in chamber music with Hilary Hahn and pianist Andreas Haefliger, and with European ensembles including ICTUS Ensemble, Ensemble L’Arsenale, zone Experimental, Basel Sinfonietta, and Ensemble LPR. A fierce advocate for contemporary arts, Woods has collaborated with artists representing the classical, popular music, and visual art worlds. In recent years, Woods has appeared in concert at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms, the Aspen Music Festival, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Das Haus (Brussels), and Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (Strasbourg), among many other venues. In addition to his post at USC, Woods serves on the artist faculty of the Music Academy of the West each summer. He holds degrees from Brooklyn College and Musik-Akademie Basel, as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Huddersfield. He previously served as Artist in Residence with Kaufman Music Center and the Seattle Symphony and was named an honoree of the 2023 Seattle Symphony Silver Anniversary Gala and recipient of the 2022 Chamber Music America Michael Jaffee Visionary Award.

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Seth Parker Woods

   Seth Parker Woods kicks off the 5th season of the Feeding the Starving Artist Podcast! Hailed by The Guardian as “a cellist of power and grace” who possesses “mature artistry and willingness to go to the brink,” the multi Grammy-nominated cellist has established his reputation as a versatile artist and innovator across multiple genres. As The New York Times  wrote, “Woods is an artist rooted in classical music, but whose cello is a vehicle that takes him, and his concertgoers, on wide-ranging journeys.”  Also at the forefront of fashion, Woods has topped “best-dressed” lists in Variety, Texas Monthly, and the OC Register. Woods has served on the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music since 2022 and was appointed Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music in 2024. Among the highlights of his 2024/25 season, Woods performs in the world premiere of Nathalie Joachim’s cello concerto Had to Be at Spoleto Festival USA, later performing its New York premiere in his debut with the New York Philharmonic. He performed the East Coast premiere of Rebecca Saunders’ cello concerto Ire  with The Next Festival of Emerging Artists and made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut in the world premiere of a cello concerto by Julia Adolphe. A core member of the music collective Wild Up, Woods performs as a soloist in the group’s Grammy-nominated Eastman Project: Eastman Vol. 4: The Holy Presence, released June 2024 on New Amsterdam Records. Woods is featured alongside flutist Claire Chase on a recording of music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir on New Focus Recordings. During the 2023/24 season, Woods brought his Grammy-nominated, autobiographical tour de force Difficult Grace to San Diego and Philadelphia, following the world premiere at New York’s 92nd Street Y and performances at UCLA and Chicago’s Harris Theater the previous season.  Difficult Grace was released as an album on Cedille Records in 2023 and was nominated for the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. Woods also performed the Boston premiere of Thorvaldsdottir’s UBIQUE at Harvard University and was featured in performances with violinist Hilary Hahn at Konzerthaus Dortmund in Germany. With American Modern Opera Company, Woods toured a new version of John Adams’ El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered. In addition to solo performances, Woods has appeared with the Atlanta and Seattle symphonies, in chamber music with Hilary Hahn and pianist Andreas Haefliger, and with European ensembles including ICTUS Ensemble, Ensemble L’Arsenale, zone Experimental, Basel Sinfonietta, and Ensemble LPR. A fierce advocate for contemporary arts, Woods has collaborated with artists representing the classical, popular music, and visual art worlds. In recent years, Woods has appeared in concert at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms, the Aspen Music Festival, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Das Haus (Brussels), and Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (Strasbourg), among many other venues. In addition to his post at USC, Woods serves on the artist faculty of the Music Academy of the West each summer. He holds degrees from Brooklyn College and Musik-Akademie Basel, as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Huddersfield. He previously served as Artist in Residence with Kaufman Music Center and the Seattle Symphony and was named an honoree of the 2023 Seattle Symphony Silver Anniversary Gala and recipient of the 2022 Chamber Music America Michael Jaffee Visionary Award.

3. 

   1 Sept 2026

   Lee Trevathan, pt. 2

   Lee Trevathan serves as the Director of Operations and Community Outreach at the Highlands (NC) Performing Arts Center. She is a classically trained actor with nearly 20 years professional experience as an actor and teacher in London, New York, Chicago, and Houston among others. Lee received a B.F.A. (Hons) in Acting from London’s International Drama School, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance.  Along with acting, Lee found great joy being a Teaching Artist for the Alley Theatre in Houston, TX. She taught Voice and Movement technique in their Conservatory program and worked with foreign doctors in the Houston Medical Center with Alley Articulated. Lee is immersed in the artistic life of the Highlands - Cashiers, NC plateau embraces the exciting and creative opportunities at the PAC.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

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5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 29 / 100

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33

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YouTube

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Engagement

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