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...
20 Mar 2022 1 minute read 0 comments bengy
The Canberra Festival (well, I think it is now called the Enlighten Festival?) is is pretty standard fixture in the life of Canberrans (Ken Behrens!). And one of the most recognisable features of that Festival is the week long hot-air balloons t...
18 Mar 2022 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Another fond memory from the my last year in Europe. This was near the end of the pandemic years.... and I had travelled to Stockholm with a small group to give a performance there. If you remember back to those times, Sweden was a bit of an out...
17 Mar 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
This is my series about trying to find our footing in Australia. It will no doubt be a series of joy and sadness and struggle... Things will turn out alright? Won't they? Part 1: Settling In and AdjustingPart 2: Checking In...Part 3: House Hunti...
15 Mar 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
I recently had the pleasure of staying at the Hotel Indigo in Adelaide recently... centrally located, right across the road from the Adelaide food-markets, you are a short walk away from some of the best restaurants and cafes, in addition to sta...
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...
11 Mar 2022 3 minute read 5 comments bengy
The Canberra Royal Show is one of the agricultural shows in Australia that originally were designed as trade fairs. These trade fairs were a way for country and city folk to mingle and exchange goods/services, and an interesting part of them wer...
9 Mar 2022 3 minute read 4 comments bengy
The Northgreen Cafe is a nice little cafe that I went to everyday last week in the Chatswood (a northern suburb of Sydney). It was my go to place for a morning coffee as I was staying at a serviced apartment, which meant that I didn't have any c...
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...
5 Mar 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Just going back on some our photos from our time in Europe... wow, I have heaps of them that I had intended to post here on TravelFeed and they are backlogged for quite a few years! So, I think that I'm going to have quite a few posts to get thr...
