April 28, 2004 at 7:02 PM

It's been another busy week but it's been good! These past few days I've been taking a different approach to my practicing and spending more time wokring on etudes and technique. So far the difference has been a positive one! It's amazing how one person can say something and how drasticly it can end up changing how you go about practicing and how much it can help you improve. I can't be thankful enough for great teachers and mentors who have helped me on this journey of becoming a better musician and person.

Music, violin is a life long journey, that I never expect to complete. I hope to master as many of it's challenges and obstacles that it presents, but is there really ever an end to it? I don't think there is. Everyday is a new challenge, and a new adventure. I think that's part of my attraction to music, is that it's an ever changing experience. Never a dull moment and always something to conquer.

On Sunday I performed the Vitali Ciaccona. It went very well with only a couple of minor mistakes, but overall the whole thing held together and I was very confident in my approach and about what I wanted to do with the piece. Thanks to a violin lesson I had last Thursday, I had spent the two and a half days leading up to the performance really thinking about how I wanted to phrase things and the dynamics, and whether or not I agreed with the ones written in the score. It was a good lesson to have and it got me thinking about more then just the notes and what is there on the page, but to take it to another level. I decided to really dig in and figured out what I wanted to make the piece do for the listener and for myself and how to best go about acheiving that. I'm going to start taking that approach more, I think. It seemed to work well and I really felt a whole new sense of calm and joy in my playing that I had never felt before. I've always been comfortable and confident, but this was an entirely new level for me. It's a strange feeling. I really like it and don't want it to go away anytime soon.

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April 28, 2004 at 7:02 PM

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