Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life! I'm a Violinist and doing what I love is often interestingly contrasted with the reality of getting to do what I love...
19 Apr 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
I tend to have a mind that can go off occasionally on some odd tangents... I'm told that it can make for very irritating conversation by my wife as I make connection jumps that make perfect sense to me... but not to her. On the other hand, one o...
17 Apr 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
Unsplash You can find previous Brain Dumps here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21. Part 22, P...
16 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments bengy
Another little memory from the last year in Europe... this time from a trip to Italy, in the very pleasant region of Pistoia. We had a last concert of a tour here, and we had stayed in a pleasant villa just outside of the town... which also led...
15 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments bengy
Lugano is a little wealthy town up in the mountains of Switzerland that I would visit roughly once a year to play a concert with an orchestra that was a regular with... These photos are from the last year that I was playing in Europe, so one of...
14 Apr 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
So, with the electric bike finally arrived from the other side of the world... I thought it would be a good idea one of these last evenings to ride the bike in to a symphony orchestra rehearsal. i had noticed that most of the musicians would arr...
12 Apr 2022 3 minute read 4 comments bengy
Eeeep... Easter crept up a bit on us this year! In the Netherlands, it would be likely that I would be in the midst of a huge Passion season of performing the Bach Passions everywhere... either in Netherlands or on tour. So, that sort of thing t...
11 Apr 2022 2 minute read 4 comments bengy
Recently, I had the pleasure of doing a performance at the Adelaide Town Hall... cunningly located in the central area of Adelaide (South Australia). Adelaide isn't a city that I have visited very often, I think I have been here only a handful 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...
8 Apr 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
As I've mentioned before, we've moved into a block where there are a crazy amount of trees and shrubs... and it is really nice, in that we are shielded by a wall of green. However, it does mean that there are equally cray amounts of green litter...
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...
