Staying busy

Ok, so work on the site has slowed down, but for good reasons; I’ve been busy doing what I’m supposed to do, namely play the violin for a living. Having been out for almost 2 years with the injury, starting from the bottom of the freelance scene has proven harder than I imagined, but now gigs are slowly starting to come my way. I just spent 2 weeks working in the South Jutland Symphony, one of the 5 regional symphony orchestras in Denmark. This past weekend I played Brahms Requiem in a church in Sweden, and this saturday I am going back to Sweden to play in the Malmö Symphony Orchestra in a stadium concert (yes!) with Jose Carreras (yep, one of the 3 three tenors). It’s nice to finally be a struggling musician again – before I was just struggling. 

Other upcoming projects include an interview and article concerning my injury and return to playing in “Musikeren“, THE magazine for professional musicians in Denmark. They (and particularly the editor) have been very good at putting the spotlight on this important subject, so I am grateful for a chance to be a part of that. It’s a multifaceted problem and we need not only better education and readily available information for musicians, but also much closer collaboration with the medical community as well as politically pushing for better protection of artists down and out with serious injury. 

Stay healthy!

Nicolaj