First serious violinlesson after 25 years

Written by Bram Heemskerk
Published: May 31, 2006 at 11:11 AM [UTC]

Yesterday I had my first serious violinlesson after 25 years. First I had lessons from 10-17 years and than I began to play in orchestra's. Between 1985-1990 I didn't play in a single orchestra, but after 1990 I played in 2 orchestra's every week, which has grown to 5 or 6 /half a year. My ambition is to play different programs and specially rare violinconcerto's or rare symfonies. I hate it to play a programm for the 2th or 3th time, also when the orchestra is better. But sometimes the amateurorchestra is so good that I can't play with then, because I was not good enough for their level.
For that reason I had 3 lessons for an audition, which failed, for an orchestra in 1995. In my first lesson now my theacher said that I had to press more with my right pointing-finger on my bow to get a better tone in the string.

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