About Vanessa
they say that a picture's worth a thousand words...
1986
The day I turned 4 and got my first violin from my grandparents. I have since learned which side to hold the violin on :) Although, I find myself facing the same challenge today with the whole video mirroring thing!
80's & 90's
...grew up in Indiana with the typical budding musician round of daily practicing, recitals & music camps. And I managed to sprinkle in some dance and theater to spice things up.
I started my own teaching studio at 16 which was around when I decided to pursue a career in classical music and also when I bumped my daily practice hours from 3 to 6 hours a day.
PS. I remember absolutely adoring this silly (ridiculously heavy) violin case...probably one of the ugliest ones I've seen to date :)
Early 2000's
...rocked a short black "hair do" for my days at Butler University in Indianapolis, pursing an undergraduate in violin performance. Me in the kitchen? Yeah...I used to get in so much trouble growing up, "no books in the kitchen, Vanessa!" as all the alarms were going off cause I forgot to keep stirring...still happens today...
Late 2000's
highlights were - My days at University of Nevada, Reno for grad school are a blur of rehearsals and performances. I unfortunately, graduated more burned out than when I arrived. At Butler I hadn't learned how to say "no" yet and by the time I left for Nevada I had approx. 80 students and was playing with 9 orchestras in the midwest "freeway philharmonic." And even though I was doing (slightly) less now, I was still playing in all the Reno orchestras and several in California and teaching a bunch of students during the years I was finishing up my degree. - Barber & mozart 5 with the university orchestra -
2012 ~ best year of my life!
finally learned to say no my journey out of burnout and no lessons/negative self talk - year off playing, mon-wed teaching which I still do today, sleeping a ton, walking a ton, started reading a million books - discovered reformer pilates - no more pain -
2014
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put aside for lack of funds...
2019
5 years to get back on my feet emotionally and tinancially pulled out of things in the most unexpected way possible...
2022
NPC project -
put aside for lack of funds...
2025 ~2nd best year of my life :)
I finally got my act together to help you! stopped orchestras, may play again? I don't know still teaching, MMB and my life today
what have you had to put aside for "lack of funds..."
I'm guessing you relate to a lot of my story. We all have those crazy awesome creative passion projects that we managed to accomplish (barely and not without a crazy amount of financial stress) or the ones that we buried and forgot about cause there was just no way we could come up with enough $$ to even think about it! Are your dreams buried so deep that you don't even remember them? what have you had to put aside for "lack of funds...?"
