April 30, 2005 at 3:26 AM

I have been posting on the discussion boards for a while, but it has taken me a while to get into something as personal as a blog. However, this is a great website and I think blogging in this community might help keep me inspired to practice...so here I go.

I'm immensely looking forward to transferring to CIM in the fall. I love orchestral playing and would particularly love to shoot for a concertmaster position in my career, so I'm really excited to start learning from Mr. Preucil. The quarter here at Northwestern is nearly over, and I'm sad to have to say goodbye to some close friends I have made, but as the music world is small I hope we will stay in touch or cross paths again. In the meantime, lots of musical things going on: my quartet is giving a recital on Sunday with Bartok 2 and Brahms 1 in C minor. Our last NUSO concert on June 3rd features Shostakovich 4, which we began reading this week. I have scheduled my sophomore recital for May 31st, with the ambitious program of the Beethoven Concerto and the Brahms G Major Sonata. I will be performing the Mendelssohn Concerto with the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra on May 14th. We had our first rehearsal this past week and I felt pretty comfortable--this is my third time reworking the piece and I really enjoy growing with it, though I feel as though I will not know the peace required of the second movement until decades from now. Peace is one emotion I don't feel quite so well-versed in portraying as the rest.

I've been in a practicing slump most of the year, but I hope that will change as my life moves in a welcome new direction. For now, I will soon have no choice but to work hard in the next month on my solo rep!

April 30, 2005 at 3:26 AM

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