I find making bios short, sweet and informative without gloating is a good formula. Having freelanced and taught for twenty years, it becomes tedious and unnecessary to list every single accolade and accomplishment. With so many years of experience doing so many different things, I like to summarize what I am capable of offering/doing in the
present, gathered from all of the experience of the
past, while on the road to one goal. Highlights perhaps. My journey has been anything but traditional, nor boring.
While I have yet to land a secure FULL-TIME job in a secure FULL-TIME orchestra, what makes me, and each of us, valuable is all of the experiences and knowledge gathered along the way to a chosen goal. The fabric that is ME is intricate and vast because I never gave up and explored every avenue to survive/MAKE A LIVING doing the thing that I love - making music on the trumpet and planting the seed of passion for music in every student/person I encountered. That is still my goal and is still taking me places I never dreamed.
So, in a nutshell, it is much better to
summarize rather than
itemize when writing a bio IMHO.