Can YOU choose between buying a NYC APARTMENT or a VIOLIN? ERIN KEEFE and her Nicolò Gagliano.

Could you choose between buying a NYC apartment or a violin for your performance career? Erin Keefe is the Concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra and violin faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music. Listen along as she tells the story of how she was faced with this pivotal decision.

Serendipity was in my favor and I happened to go festival hopping with Erin in the summer of 2023! This video starts with Lobero Concerts in Santa Barbara CA, moves to The Brideghampton Chamber Music Festival in NY, and ends in La Jolla SummerFEST in CA.

0:00 Intro
0:20 Greetings
1:00 “Its a Nicolò Gagliano”
1:25 Do you want an apartment or a violin?
1:54 “I tried 70 violins”
2:10 “I took my top 3 choices into Alice Tully Hall”
2:40 “It does exactly what I want, when I want it to”
2:58 “It had been sitting in a closet for 10 years”
3:12 “I get it adjusted but, it doesn’t need much to be a great violin”
3:36 A surprising link to the previous owner
4:13 “Often you don’t know who had it before you”
4:47 In these 16 years, have you played other violins?
5:45 “I’m incredibly fortunate to have this violin”
6:02 “I also own a violin by Ryan Soltis”
6:26 “I commissioned a non-electrified electric violin for practice”
7:41 Does it have a unique string length?
8:19 There’s a unique grain pattern in the wood
9:05 ERIN PLAYS AN EXCERPT from "MEDITATION FROM THAÏS"


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