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January 17, 2005 at 5:41 PM

Si, here I am in. In New York, resuming my studies at the Juilliard School. In fact, in 15 minutes I have a studioclass with Donald Weilerstein. It has been a crazy week. My passport was gone, so I had to apply for a new Visa, I had to cancel my flight to New York and take one 2 days later. But after a lot of stress I arrived. Not that the stress was over, I had a meeting with the dean and several other people and had to start looking for a plce to life. I still have not found a plce, but I am staying at a friends place now, while he is playing concerts.

Musically I could not ask for more. I have a class in 20th century music and one about performance style of the baroque, and with my violin lessons of Mr. Perlman, I pretty much have covered the entire violin music history as it comes to performance practice. I do have to finish up to other classes: content and form and eartraining... HELP. After so many years of eartraining I am still not finished, and I doubt if I will ever make it through.
Besides that I started reading the book "Heart of the Artist" by Rory Noland and with that I feel I am covering about evey aspect of being a musician: performance practice, theory, and the spiritual side of being a musician.

But I miss Europe, and specifically my old and newly made friends in Switzerland. New York is a busy town, there are for my taste way too many people and I miss being able to just bike around without being considered suicidal (chances of being killed on a bike in Manhattan are pretty big)
But it has been snowing and I am very much looking forward to taking a stroll in Central Park, who knows, maybe I'll even go ice skating.

Rehearsals for the Carnegie Hall concert are about to start, I really need to get going on the Bartok Contrasts. And I am working hard for the upcoming concerts in Russi.a.
But right now I got to run to Mr. Weilerstein's studio...
Greetings from New York,
Carla

Hello from Warsaw!
Im so jealous!Studying in New York....is my biggest dream.....I hope that some day this dream come truth
Best wishes,
Karolinka