Violin #2

After a few years my older sister and I started taking lessons from a teacher in Manhattan. We continued competing in fiddling competitions but started playing also in a local orchestra called the Gold Orchestra. Traveling with this orchestra I was able to play in some amazing places. My very first year in the Gold Orchestra we traveled to New York where we would play in Carnegie Hall. Gold Orchestra has taken me to other amazing places as well including: The Grand Canyon and The Midwest Clinic, in Chicago. Gold Orchestra also introduced me to new people including a girl who would be my best friend. Two of my most recent performances was this last December when I soloed with The Kearney Symphony, in Kearney Nebraska. This story started in the spring of 2011 when my violin teacher told me about a competition where you play a concerto for three judges with an accompanist. The first and grand prize winner would recieve a plaque and the chance to solo with the Kearney Symphony. I immediately wanted to try for it. So when the time came my family and I traveled up to Kearney, Nebraska and I auditioned with several other students for this prestigious award. Then it was time. What we had all been waiting for. The time to announce who won. They called the third and second prize winners and then they paused before calling the first and grand prize winner. I won. I couldn't believe it I would be soloing with a symphony in December. It seemed like those months between the competion and the performance dragged on but finally it was time what I had been anticipating since the spring. My family plus my violin teacher and my best friend and I all traveled up to Kearney, Nebraska for the performance. It went off without a hitch and Rebek and I stayed up most of the night watching movies and celebrating.