Hi guys, been a while. I'm using this journal thingy as like a blog so thar...
Recently I've participated in (at?) a music camp that's been held in Söderhamn, with violin as my major instrument. The kids that went to the camp was like 5 years younger than me and they were like small virtuosi the whole bunch of them, got me a little jealous but I decided that I wouldn't get good at violin with being envious so I've decided that I'm really going to be intense with my violin training from now on with a special program at my music school, really looking forward to it!
The week started with a concert with all the teachers which was very good. One of the teachers husband was Fredrik Ullén, look him up on wikipedia and you'll see! I'm both scared and euphoric because the teachers have arranged for me and my friend to get a little special lesson with him, it's a once in a lifetime experience!
At the camp we've played pieces by a lot of different composers like; Tartini, Telemann, Bach and a lot more. The cello group even played The final countdown which was a little cute. The kids that are being taught here really have a different feel from us 'natives', they're studying at Lilla Akademien which is a very good swedish music school so they're really good. I wish I could go there some day.
That reminds me, my friend just took a entrance test to Lilla Akademien and now she's looking for an apartment, just wanted to mention it 'cause I'm really happy for her.
Fredrik Ullén really is amazing, he have balanced his complex music career with being an well known neurologist. It's something me and my friends almost can't comprehend, I wish and hope I have the capacity to do the same... I want to be an biologist or an psychologist while being able to really study the violin. I hope I'm able.
Yesterday Fredrik Held a little concert in tribute to liszts' 200 birthday it was breathtaking. He's going to perform the same concert in France next week so it was really a treat. He played pices by liszt ofcourse and some by Messien, the best part part of the whole concert was when he played Evryale which was nine minutes long and truly a master piece inspired by medusa and her sisters, som greek composer I can't remember made it. I was scared at a part and I got goose bumps, it was terrifying. At the end of the piece I knew I was never going to see anything like it ever again in my whole life, it was magnificent.
I've had so much fun these past days that I can't even describe it! I've learned so much and I've made so many new friends! I messed up a lot when we played and I've feel kind of bad the whole week because I'm one of the older ones there but I'm at the same level as one eight year old kid there. I know It's bad to feel that but I hope I'm going to get enough motivation with this camp so that I can really concentrate on learning the violin so it's fine.
The local papers gave our camp and Fredrik Ullén fairly much attention and we had a few pages in the paper, it was pretty cool to be in the news.
I played so much violin that my body hurts, I hope it's going to be a music camp next year too...
Sorry if I formulated me kind of weird in the text but I'm really tired so bleh...
Bye
<3 || Elina