Defining Success with Kerry Muzzey

Big leaps, small steps, and navigating the messy middle are all part of the process when it comes to any life transition. How do you know when you are succeeding at what you set out to do, especially when it takes a heck of a long time to get there? On this episode of Camera Ready & Abel, modern classical and film composer, Kerry Muzzey - who has one of the most inspiring career pivot stories ever - helps me look at the measuring stick that is DEFINING SUCCESS.

Kerry’s recent works include the original orchestral score for the ballet "Casanova" by Kenneth Tindall and Northern Ballet; the score for the documentary film "Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry" by director Laura Dunn and executive producers Robert Redford and Terrence Malick, and whose piece "Looking Back" was used as a recurring love theme on the TV show "GLEE." 

Kerry Muzzey and I met at VH1 back in the glory days of the 1990s. I was running the Talent Development Department and Kerry worked in Rights & Clearances, so that VH1 could legally obtain the rights to the content -- music, video footage, and celebrity images - that graced our screens. In his mid-thirties Kerry was met with the growing awareness that he was putting off what he had really wanted to do: Compose music full-time. The silent handcuffs of career promotions and the ticking time clock of aging, pushed Kerry to finally ask, if not today, when? And so the journey to becoming a full-time professional composer began, but not without a few bumps and bruises along the way!

Visit kerrymuzzey.com to learn more about Kerry’s work.