Category Archives: Performing

Is that your expert opinion?

I keep thinking I should write a post about auditions. My casual readers won’t care at all, but musician readers would care. I’m not the Bulletproof Musician though—I don’t have any real advice for you—I haven’t shown tremendous success in the audition world—and I don’t consider myself an expert on auditioning. But I think that’s [...]

DON’T PANIC

I finally had a quick urge to come tell you guys how I’m doing, and then Windows Live Writer (the program I use to write my blog posts) wouldn’t OPEN!  I briefly panicked, and tried to open it a whole bunch of times, and kept getting error messages, then I started to do a Google [...]

The Ballad of Baby Doe

This weekend I’m performing in the orchestra for Winter Opera St Louis‘s performances of The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore.  We perform  Friday at 8 pm, Sunday at 3 pm, Chaminade Preparatory School.  It’s the regional premiere! We started rehearsing yesterday.  The way this works is that we have a few orchestra only [...]

Your way or norway!

My sister Carrie is going to Norway with her Quartet.  They need our help on Kickstarter.  I told her since I have such a great following on my blog I’d tell you guys all about her.  She’s almost as cool and as talented as I am (Hey, it hasn’t been a year yet.  I can [...]

Holiday Magic Train

This will go down as one of the oddest gigs I’ve ever played.  As you can see, my friend Jen and I are playing music ON A TRAIN on Saturday, December 8.  I’m a little nervous about playing violin while moving, as I have never been a subway busker or anything like that, and I’m [...]

Want to win free tickets? (Closed!)

Welcome to my “new blog”!  I’ve switched to being self-hosted with a wordpress dot org blog rather than wordpress dot com.  If you have your bookmarks or RSS feed pointed at hannahviolin.wordpress.com, please redirect them to hannahviolin.me.  You’ll thank me later, I’m sure!  I’m really excited about this move and what it means for the [...]