Angela Myles Beeching

Who is Angela Myles Beeching?

Angela Myles Beeching is a noted arts career specialist.

She is the author of Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music, first published by Oxford University Press in 2005. An expanded second edition was released in 2010 and builds on the success of the first edition. The book is widely used by professional and student musicians and frequently serves as a central career development text in music programs.

Beeching provides a range of consulting services for creative individuals, ensembles, and institutions. She is the Director of Manhattan School of Music's Center for Music Entrepreneurship. During the 2010-11 academic year she was a visiting consultant/adjunct faculty at IU Jacobs School of Music leading Project Jumpstart, a student-centered and student-driven career and entrepreneurial leadership program. Beeching is the former director of the Career Services Center at New England Conservatory.

Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley grant, she holds a doctorate in cello performance from Stony Brook University. Dr. Beeching studied cello in Paris with Roland Pidoux and in the US with Timothy Eddy.