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...
9 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Sigh... this is the ongoing nightmare that is life as a freelance musician. Trying to sort out different clashing and overlapping projects whilst trying to not piss off every ensemble and musician out there. This is a...
8 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments bengy
Some of our newer additions to the garden front have taken hold quite nicely! We planted about 15 partly established plants int eh front... a mix of screening plants and nice scented flowering plants. We had the help of my mother-in-law who sugg...
7 Jan 2023 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
A couple of days ago, I posted about the administrative work that was coming ahead for my ensemble... lots of less interesting but very necessary stuff to get the ball rolling on my long-term plan... and I will need to do a bit of that throughou...
5 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Well.. the New Year is over, and we will be returning back from summer holidays very soon. That means that everything will need to get started for my ensemble quite soon. After two concerts last year, and a last minute...
3 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash I've never really had to work "for" a music school for school-age (and adult amateur) students before. My wife and I have always had a direct relationship with the students with no middle-men... but since returning bac...
1 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash No resolutions for me... I'm not really a fan of making commitments for my future self at some arbitrary point in the year that doesn't really seem that much different to any other point in time. But I do have things t...
27 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ah... that weird time between Christmas and New Year... it is sort of like time stands still for us. Very rarely are there concerts, and it is just lots of time to recover from eating and drinking a touch too much and working our way through lef...
24 Dec 2022 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Honestly, we have a few too many keyboard instruments around at the moment... harpsichord, pianos, and fortepianos... well, some of those are definitely required for our work! In the longer term, we will eventually build out some sort of studio...
21 Dec 2022 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
As I had mentioned in previous blog posts, I am still in the process of discovering local breweries and distilleries. It is a tough job, but I'm making sure that I do some orders around here and there to make sure that I can sample the goods acr...
20 Dec 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
A few weeks back, my wife asked me to come out to listen to this weird sound that she was hearing... I had heard it before, and had always thought that it was an animal or something in the middle of the night. However, with the stronger winds th...
