Composed

Overcoming Performance Anxiety

Many of us are terrified of public speaking, let alone performing! COMPOSED explores the many ways we experience and face performance anxiety, through the experiences of professional musicians. Faced with the judgment of peers, the audience, and themselves, these musicians spend years trying to understand and overcome their anxiety. Through their stories we find that we are not alone with our fear of failure.

"This well-crafted film raises important questions and offers paths to solutions. We screened COMPOSED at Harvard to a varied audience that included musicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and educators, many of whom wear more than one of those hats. We all came away with a new perspective, not only of performance anxiety, but about pedagogical practice, life skills and resilience, that I'm sure will resonate with them for a long time to come." - Lisa Wong, Co-Director, Arts and Humanities Initiative, Harvard Medical School

"A profoundly moving and honest exploration..." - Eugene Izotov, Principal Oboe, San Francisco Symphony