Huddled into a ball, I sat on the floor of my music college student accommodation and cried. Again. This was me in 2002. Suffering horribly for one simple reason. Because of a case of mistaken identity. I was a foreign violin student in a prestigious German conservatoire. The way I saw it was that my music career was finished. I was in such agony from playing the violin that I couldn't bear to hold the thing for more than 10-15 minutes, I was being assessed on my ability to p

For this blog post I thought I'd share something I posted on my facebook wall a few weeks ago that resonated with a lot of people. Hope you enjoy! You wouldn't check the speedometer in your car and make a judgement about how much fuel you needed to buy. Speedometers don't tell you about fuel level. They tell you about speed. You wouldn't make a financial decision based on what a set of traffic lights is telling you about your bank balance. Traffic lights don't tell you about

Huddled into a ball, I sat on the floor of my music college student accommodation and cried. Again. This was me in 2002. Suffering horribly for one simple reason. Because of a case of mistaken identity. I was a foreign violin student in a prestigious German conservatoire. The way I saw it was that my music career was finished. I was in such agony from playing the violin that I couldn't bear to hold the thing for more than 10-15 minutes, I was being assessed on my ability to p

Hi there! Welcome to my brand new blog! As this is my first ever post I wanted to introduce myself and really explain why I do what I do. I've always been interested in creating things - from my first crayon drawing made on my parents' living room coffee table to my interest in drama at school and soon to my passion for music, learning and teaching. The thing was that as I grew up I noticed that as I followed my heart and went with a career in music something began to cre