Ep. 45: Dr Nico de Villiers

*All Talking Classical podcasts formerly on SoundCloud redirected to Anchor.* In this podcast, I'm delighted to be talking to Dr Nico de Villiers. Nico is a pianist, vocal coach and researcher, and launched an invaluable musicians' career development podcast during the lockdown earlier this year, called "What Would Mozart Do?". We talk about his podcast and Nico shares some very interested insights into careers with regards to music colleges and the recent governmental debates surrounding occupations in the arts and music industries. We also talk about his journey into music and his fascinating research into Richard Hageman. Nico has co-authored a critical biography on this lesser known composer, pianist, conductor and vocal coach that will be released soon. Many thanks to Nico for talking to me! Nico's bio: https://www.nicodevilliers.com/biography. Podcast released 18 December 2020; interview recorded 7 December 2020. *Due to a technical issue during recording, the sound quality does change slightly about seven minutes into the podcast but hopefully that should not affect your listening experience too much!* Music used in this podcast: Music by audionautix.com. "Alla What (parody)," Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com. Used in full and edited forms for the podcast.