As a musician, I know how vital it is to perform at your highest level when it matters most: at a concert, exam, competition, or orchestra auditions. Each musician feels performance anxiety more or less intensely, depending on one’s experience or age. Maybe you’ve read or heard that strong emotions will decrease the more concerts you perform and so you must play as much as possible on stage before an audience. The truth is that things are not exactly this way. Even if you get