Audition season ✓✓✓ I've learned a LOT from this season. A lot about playing, a lot about nerves, a lot about being my own teacher, and a lot about failure. While there's a lot up in the air for my possible acceptance into a master's program, I've realized that regardless the result, I've gotten exactly what I've needed to get from this experience. Further, MAD props to @sr3three3 for taking me to coffee, food, and the airport and helping remind me about the ever presence of God in my everyday life as a musician in and out of school. You made my day and helped make this experience so, so, so, so, so much more memorable and important to me.
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Moving forward, y'all finally get a break from hearing me GRIPE about auditions. Next big step is senior recital - I've got a lot to work on and it's going to be TOTALLY WICKED. Can't wait to show what I'm working on :)
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#TheNextStep #Music #MusicMajor #TheProcess #MyWheaton #Auditions
January has been an interesting month for me... I started the new year feeling like I should withdraw all my grad school apps and take a year off. I felt like I wasn't ready, but I think I was also scared of the prospect of leaving the places I've known for years, leaving the people I love, and playing in front of musicians I look up to with the possibility of completely flubbing it. Yet as this month has progressed and I've basically lived in the practice room, I've found a lot of progress, mentally and musically, in pushing myself to do what makes me uncomfortable. My first audition is this Saturday. I'm not sure I'll ever 'feel' ready, but I definitely feel the need to try and do my best. It's time for me to trust the Lord way more in where He wants my life to go....
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In the mean time, around all my music this year, catch me @fiveandhoekcoffee. I'm working way more this year and am reminded of how much I enjoy getting to work with some of my favorite people. Can't wait to see more familiar faces around :)
P.C. @amylynnvisuals
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I guess this could be another typical sappy New year's post BUT IM DOING IT ANYWAY.
This past year has been probably the most difficult, insightful, crazy, and amazing year of my life. With college coming to a close, I've been pushed to my limits a LOT and while it wears, it has really helped me come closer to being the person I want to be. It has also now been a year dating this stud @sylviagce. Thanks for sticking with me for over a year now and pushing me every day to be better than I could have imagined myself being. Thank you for telling me to practice when I don't want to, for pushing me to push myself harder than I thought I could, and for sticking with me even when I get frustrated, angry, sad, smelly, mean, prideful, broken, exhausted, or anything else that's not my best. This year could not have been possible without you. Thanks for being a total dummy with me and I love you LOADS!!!! Check out my new blog post about the start of 2019: link in bio :) here's to the new year full of new opportunities no matter where I am .
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