Artist Development

Artist Development is for "Everything Artists," managing a diversified portfolio of talent and interests. What’s an “Everything Artist?” Well, Hickory Arts was formed by a variety of working and teaching artists talented and skilled in more than one way who have committed to helping develop other jacks of all trades; singers who are songwriters who ...

Voice Lessons

Hickory Arts offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Voice Lessons — Contemporary, Theatrical, or Classical; Technique and Vocal Coaching. Hickory Arts offers you the most comprehensive voice education to be found anywhere. We provide individualized instruction in all contemporary music styles including jazz, pop, rock, and theater, and prepare you for both concert performance and studio ...

Violin Lessons

Hickory Arts offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Violin Lessons. Hickory Arts offers you the most diverse and contemporary string education to be found anywhere. We provide individualized instruction in Fiddle, Violin, Viola, and more. We offer you professional faculty who are specialists in each discipline; sessions specifically designed to enhance your talents and abilities and ...

Acting Lessons

Hickory Arts offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Acting Lessons for Stage or Screen. Private, one-on-one sessions are weekly and employ “The Method” (The Stanislavsky System). Emphases include human behavior, interpersonal communication, threading, choices, between the lines, physicality, empathy, character study, musical theatre applications, and the dos and don’ts of interview and audition protocols and procedures. ...

Guitar Lessons

Hickory Arts offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Guitar Lessons — Electric or Acoustic; Traditional or Contemporary; Self-Accompaniment. To become a truly accomplished guitarist, you first have to master the basics. Players that have an intimate understanding of chords, scales, blues, and rock and improvisation techniques are more comfortable in different musical situations and are more ...

Bullyfull

I just returned from an extraordinary “networking” trip with a friend and colleague. I’m grateful beyond words. One of the main reasons for “Trippin’ with Molly” was an anti-bullying event called the Upstander Legacy Celebration for the Tyler Clementi Foundation. Maulik Pancholy of 30 Rock hosted. Composer Lance Horne testified and performed a gut-wrenching tribute …

Audition Etiquette

Audition Etiquette for Actors has become required reading for Hickory Arts developing artists. The industry is polluted at every level with those who underestimate the impact of their behavior as much as those who “apathize” or tolerate anything less than decorum. One of the most important things about an audition is how you behave. All …

The Art of Ethics

We care deeply, selflessly about those we know. But that empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.from Interstellar There is an art to ethics in, well, art—the business of art. Any working artist knows for every step you take, you must take two more for the business of you and your art. It’s inescapable. …

Refer a Friend

Simple as this. If you’re an active Hickory Arts student, pick up a referral card at the studio. Your awesome friend, relative, evil twin, etc. registers for their first month. Boom. You earn a free lesson. No limits. Refer a million friends, earn a million lessons. We’re not likely to live long enough to teach …