maiden voyage

I have never been this nervous before. The house lights dim and the applause fades, replaced with that peculiar stuffy silence that anticipates the first note of a concert. The four players on stage lock eyes. But I am in the audience, not one of them. So why is my heart pounding? Because the quartet [...]

audition experience

I write this post on the morning of the finals for our latest violin audition. In just two hours, our hall will be filled with the concerti of Mozart, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and maybe even Beethoven (but probably not Mendelssohn). Hopefully by the end of the day we’ll get a new violinist for the orchestra. [...]