I will NOT start with the yawn-inducing chronology of my personal history as a musician and accolades that don’t mean anything to anyone else. I’ll similarly skip the soporific laundry list of all the famous people and places I have performed at that no one reading this will have ever heard of; and also ditch the verbose, mind-numbingly homogenized ChatGPT-generated descriptive BS that’s all the rage these days. Nor will I make up fake PR shit for this new project by an obscure string specialist that by definition has no press.

At any rate, “deciding” to do music full-time was never an actual intention on my part. It was more preordained: I was born and bred and raised and trained to be a musician and had been working off and on as a professional instrumentalist for much of my life, coming up in the classical world and branching out into other musical idioms.

That work was not sustainable so I had to do a lot of other things to earn money, some of which I hated more than others. After divorcing my abusive husband with whom I’d been doing an original instrumental music project for many years (his music, which made it difficult to maintain any independent musical work of my own), I had to spend a few years healing and rebuilding. During that time I quit music altogether.

What pushed me back into it was knowing that I had to at least try it again, or get stuck with a future of what the COVID-19 Pandemic had at least temporarily liberated me from: the shitty low-rent dead-end class of employment I got trapped in by the bad marriage. After a few more false starts working on other people’s music, I finally decided to take my own seriously.