ENCOUNTER YOUR DREAM
Leveraging your next professional plateau with a contemporary, handcrafted violin family instrument.
INSTRUMENT SELECTION
Jim Clinton
7/13/20261 min read
Experience
A professional musician has spent years, studying the violin craft, from Twinkle to Lalo, from simple scales, to discovering hidden bowing techniques. From lessons in a quaint studio, to achieving your Masters degree, then elevating your world with a Performance PHD. It has been a long, difficult and perhaps, fiercely competitive journey. The money has been spent, and now you embark on your career ambitions with applications, resume writing, auditions.
Challenges
Amidst accomplishment, independence, even a gained respect, some struggles may arise. One may find himself or herself with a new financial burden, lack of gainful or at least intended employment. Networks are not moving as quickly as one would expect. Gratification may be balanced with a less than exciting form of reality.
Investment Consideration
Much time and money has been invested by both performer and family from day one in that first lesson, obtaining a college degree, working for the Masters on the other side of the country, and traveling the world while researching a doctoral dissertation.
Usually a performer has a somewhat reliable instrument that has faithfully served as a friend, a winning partner, and a tool in accomplishing all that has been gained to date.
Transition Consideration
The performer now has a new audience, not a teacher, not a professor, not a review board, but paying clients, peer, tenured professionals observing your auditions, colleagues who share a desk with you, that principal cellist that sits opposite your ensemble or orchestra, the conductor.
Procuring a next-level instrument is a logical step-wise move in the career sequence for an aspiring or already working professional violinist, violist, cellist, bassist.
Connection Consideration
Having an instrument that matches one's current career path will improve your connections
Hubris, then Struggle
Collaborate
An Accompanist
Proceed
