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21 Apr 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
When on tour, I have a distinct preference for serviced apartments over normal hotel rooms. I like the ability to cook for myself.... even if those meals tend to be a bit on the weird side due to the shopping for several nights only, without var...
20 Apr 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
In some ways, I was a little bit dubious as to whether or not the harpsichord would survive the long sea journey in a container. There is something a bit unnerving about sending a delicate instrument for several months across to the other side o...
10 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments bengy
It is quite strange to be revisiting this place after such a long long time! I had studied as a post-graduate student at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music so long ago... and now, revisiting again to perform in the very beautiful Verbrugghen Hal...
7 Apr 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
So, these things tend to happen on days when you don't need it... I'm busy trying to finish an assignment with a busy week coming up, but these are the way that things happen. I guess if it was not happening at an inopportune time, then I probab...
26 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
I had an interesting concert this afternoon... about a month ago, I was asked to see if I would conduct a local string group in a Baroque program later in the year(that is my specialisation after all...). I accepted the offer, as I do want to tr...
25 Mar 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury
Can you find anybody who doesn't like listening to music? Singing is so natural. If you have a vocal cord and you can produce vocal sounds, you can try singing. I know some of us can't produce audible sound due to problems in the vocal cords. Some pe...
14 Mar 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
Ahhhhh.... my first modern symphony orchestra job in about two decades! Of course, I've been a professional musician in all that time, just as a specialist in Early Music and not in the symphony orchestra stuff. Thankfully, I'm starting with som...
8 Mar 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash So, moving to a new country on the other side of the planet means that I'm rebuilding a teaching studio of violin and viola students. No problem... these things will take time and it will grow over time as long as I'm...
7 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Violin The last couple of decades, I have made my living as a musician in the specialisation of Early Music... which means that my instruments are all set up in the older Baroque/Classical style... with the appropriate bows, lack of chin and...
18 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
When it comes to the arts, I'm not a believer in over-encouragement. I'm not in favor of discouragement, necessarily, but in this era of artistic relativism in which "anything is art because I say it's art," I think it's time to stop enabling artles...
