Fearless Artist Career Day 2026
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Starting at 12:00 PM CET
Talent was never the problem. The classical world hands you scales, competitions, and a polite queue to wait in, then acts surprised when the career never arrives. Fearless Artist Career Day is the opposite of waiting. One full day, built for musicians who would rather build a career than audition for one. No gatekeepers, no permission slips, no "that's just how it works." Just the people, the tools, and the honest conversations that actually move a career forward.
The full speaker lineup is coming, and it is worth the wait. The smartest move is not to wait to register. Lock in the Early Bird rate now, before the lineup drops and the price goes up. You bring the ambition. We will bring the room.
Claim the Early Bird rate
Use code MYCAREER for a 33% discount.
A full day of workshops, talks, and real exchange. Every session runs one hour, back-to-back, from 12:00 CET onward. You will sit in the room with promoters, industry experts, coaches, and fellow musicians who are doing the work, not just talking about it. Come for one session, stay for all of them.
Deanna Petre
American violist, co-founder of The Fearless Artist Mastermind, and a player who has built a career on her own terms across two continents. After a decade performing throughout Paris and Europe, she now works from Minneapolis with ensembles including the Minnesota Orchestra, teaches her own studio, and writes on the messy reality of balancing a music career with motherhood. A graduate of Juilliard, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, Deanna brings the calm and the structure that turn big career goals into actual plans.
Michelle Lynne
Canadian pianist, educator, and entrepreneur based in the Netherlands, co-founder of The Fearless Artist Mastermind, and Artistic Director of the Opus 16 Concerts series. She has toured widely across Europe, taught entrepreneurship at Codarts Rotterdam and Conservatorium Maastricht, and hosts The Fearless Artist Podcast, with recent talks at Classical:NEXT and Hunter College in New York. Michelle coaches musicians to drop the perfectionism, lose the glass ceiling, and finally build careers that pay. A Master's and Artist Diploma graduate of the Université de Montréal, her core belief is blunt: artists deserve to earn well and should never be their own ceiling.
Bernhard Kerres
Bernhard has sat in nearly every chair in this industry. A former opera singer, he led a listed technology company through a full turnaround as its CEO. Then he went on to run one of Europe's most prestigious concert halls as CEO and Artistic Director of the Vienna Concert House. He founded HELLO STAGE, the global network for classical musicians, and built the AI platforms RolePlays.ai and CoachBernhard.ai, turning decades of coaching into tools that leaders and musicians actually practice with, not just listen to. Author of "Be Your Own Manager" and a board member of several arts organizations, he teaches the next generation at MUK Vienna, the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, the Lucerne Festival, and the Mizmorim Festival. His message never changes: stop waiting to be discovered and run your career like the founder you are.