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Check this article out. It says that getting excited before a performance, rather than calming down, is the way to curb anxiety. http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2013/12/performance-anxiety.aspx

Something I heard a vocal professor tell a student has helped me. The student was practicing for an audition in front of a bunch of us in a concert hall, and he was really nervous. The professor told him that "no one but us and your parents would care if you died right now." I know that sounds harsh, but he meant it in an overall idea. It was his way of saying not to take his work too seriously. That only a minuscule percent of the planet was paying attention. None of this really matters...but it does, but it doesn't. And this: That helps so much.