How do you stay focused on building a fulfilling career when you have multiple responsibilities that are constantly pulling on you?
You’re a super busy musician and you’ve got concerts, teaching, and countless hours of admin work filling up your schedule…. Do you ever just need help to keep you on track and make time for your most important career goals?
You’ve come to the right place.
About
the Fearless Artist Mastermind
The Fearless Artist Mastermind exists to empower classical musicians to build sustainable, fulfilling careers. Created in 2020 by violist Deanna Petre and pianist Michelle Lynne, TFA provides professional development and coaching for over 500 hundred musicians worldwide and has a combined online reach of over 25,000 people.
At TFA, we provide musicians with structure, tools, and skills that are often absent from traditional training in conservatories, including branding, marketing, social media, pitching, and entrepreneurship.
Our programs include a Mastermind, Fast Forward Community (with over 65 members) and 1-1 coaching. We also offer workshops with international guest experts, host a highly successful podcast and have a blog for musician parents.
In our programs, we emphasize accountability, strategic planning, and the power of community. Our growing, global community stretches across cultures and mindsets and offers a rich foundation for members to learn from one another, receive feedback, and grow. As professional classical musicians, we understand the demands of the current music industry and recognize the importance of staying relevant while building a unique brand and a loyal audience.
Our 2026 plans include guest speaking at Classical:NEXT, serving as keynote speakers at a Reina Sofía School of Music alumni event in Madrid, leading a branding workshop for OAcademy, and presenting a workshop for the Juilliard Entrepreneurship Symposium. We also plan to continue building our membership to 100+ members, serve listeners globally with our 80+ episode podcast as well as continue to educate and inspire thousands of freelance musicians worldwide.
Meet Deanna and Michelle
Co-Founders of The Fearless Artist Mastermind
About Deanna
American violist Deanna Petre enjoys a diverse career as a performer and teaching artist and is co-founder of The Fearless Artist Mastermind. She emanates a calm, positive leadership style and her deep compassion for others helps her serve The Fearless Artist community.
After cultivating a diverse performing career in Europe over her ten years living in Paris, she is now based in Minneapolis, MN, where she performs with numerous ensembles and holds a private teaching studio. She also writes a blog on exploring the intersection of a music career and motherhood.
Deanna is a graduate of the Juilliard School, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
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Violist Deanna Petre enjoys a multifaceted career as a performer, teaching artist, and as co-founder of The Fearless Artist Mastermind. After spending ten years cultivating her diverse performing career in Paris and across Europe, she is now based in Minneapolis, MN where she can be seen performing with numerous ensembles such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Candlelight Concerts, 10th Wave Chamber Music Collective and Classical Music Project and holds a private teaching studio. She is also passionate about introducing classical music to the youngest of audiences, and she performs frequently for the Petite Concerts series.
During her time in France, Deanna performed frequently with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Orchestre National d’Ile de France, and as guest principal violist with the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne, among other ensembles in the Paris region. She also performed with the Orquesta de Cámara Galega in Spain, the Orchestre National de Pays de la Loire, and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Passionate about chamber music, she was a regular guest artist for the Opus 16 Concerten series in the Netherlands. She also appeared with the Ensemble IMAGO in Paris, at the ClasClas International Music Festival in Spain, and for the Sinfonietta Paris series. In the US she has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, South Dakota Symphony, the Lakes Area Music Festival, and the Artosphere Festival, as well as in the JOYA series and Music on the Hill series in Minnesota. As an advocate for introducing classical music to young audiences, Deanna, along with pianist Michelle Lynne, performed interactive concerts and gave master classes in international schools across Europe through the Juilliard Global Ventures program. She also initiated outreach concerts in France, Switzerland, and Romania.Deanna has been fortunate to study with fantastic pedagogues and she draws upon her knowledge and experience for inspiration in her teaching. Currently, Deanna maintains a private teaching studio for intermediate and advanced viola students in the Twin Cities, and in the past she taught at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis. During her time at Juilliard, she was a recipient of the MAP teaching fellowship.
In 2020, Deanna co-founded The Fearless Artist Mastermind (TFA) with pianist Michelle Lynne. TFA is a global community that empowers musicians to build sustainable freelance careers through training and coaching in essential business skills. Together, Deanna and Michelle support musicians in setting goals, exchanging ideas, and gaining the clarity and structure needed to achieve them. TFA offers a range of programs, including a Mastermind, a membership community, coaching, workshops, a podcast, and Deanna’s blog exploring the intersection of a music career and motherhood. Deanna is currently pursuing her International Coaching Federation (ICF) credential under the mentorship of coach Bernhard Kerres in Vienna.
Deanna is a graduate of the Juilliard School, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, during which time she was a recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship from the Fondation des Etats-Unis. She loves traveling, biking, and spending time with her husband and three beautiful children.Click here for more about Deanna
About Michelle
Michelle Lynne is a Canadian pianist, educator, and entrepreneur based in the Netherlands. She tours extensively throughout Europe, performing in multiple genres, and is the Artistic Director of the chamber music concert series Opus 16 Concerts.
Alongside her performing career, Michelle is the co-founder of The Fearless Artist Mastermind (TFA), a global community that empowers musicians to build sustainable freelance careers by offering training and coaching on branding, social media, mindset and creating wealth.
She was previously a Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at both Codarts Rotterdam and Conservatorium Maastricht, and has coached hundreds of musicians worldwide to overcome perfectionism and take bold steps in their careers. Michelle also hosts The Fearless Artist Podcast, featuring leading voices in the field of musician entrepreneurship. She has recently been invited to speak at Classical:NEXT, Hunter College (NYC), Adirondack Performing Arts Festival, among others.
Passionate about connection and helping musicians overcome limitations, her work bridges performance and education, helping to shape a future for classical music where leadership, visibility, and community are at the center.
She graduated from the Université de Montréal with a Master’s and Artist Diploma in piano performance. Michelle is full of enthusiasm and optimism, and believes that artists deserve to earn a good income and should never be their own ceilings.
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As a pianist, singer and entrepreneur, Canadian Michelle Lynne enjoys a wide and varied career, whether on stage performing, delighting audiences across Europe, speaking at events, or teaching her classes on Entrepreneurship at Conservatorium Maastricht and Codarts Rotterdam.
She loves to bring joy to audiences through diverse programs and connect them with special experiences through classical music concerts, or crossover concerts in partnership with Candlelight Concerts.
Her debut album featuring a combination of original songs and impressionist piano repertoire is being released in early 2023.
Michelle is often invited as a guest speaker and to give workshops on a variety of topics such as entrepreneurship, building an online community, social media, marketing and branding for musicians, and healthy communication across organizations.
Having earned her Masters Degree and Artist Diploma in Piano Performance at the Université de Montréal, she has also studied with incredible piano professors at some of the most prestigious summer institutes in the world.
As co-founder of The Fearless Artist Mastermind with partner Deanna Petre, Michelle believes that musicians have the ability to build their own successful careers and should not be limited by their own glass ceilings. She facilitates Mastermind groups and coaches musicians to reach their full potential and unlock the gold that is inside of them so that they can accomplish their purpose. She teaches Entrepreneurship at two major conservatories in the Netherlands.
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