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In the last few years, I found myself wondering how and why I decided to study violin. I was about eleven years old when, after listening to a great violinist whom I lately recognized as Gioconda De Vito, I went up to my father and said: “I want to become a violinist!”.
It is uncommon for an eleven-year-old boy to be aware of what he wants from life and even of what the future has in store for him. But curiosity, subsequently matched with a big enthusiasm, plenty of ambition and a good deal of a typically youthful ego were the right mix for me to face relocations, competitions, constant travels and the captivating taste of the forestage, shortly afterwards and in the following years.
But there is an element, whose ancestral presence accompanied some important moments of my life: the sea. I was at sea to oyster when, at the early age of eleven, my mother literally dragged me out against my will and brought me to the conservatory of Lecce, my hometown, to sit the entrance examination for the violin class. I sat before Genoa sea front when, in 1991, I fervently felt that I could really win the Paganini Competition.
And today I “find myself” at sea, whenever I need to gather strength for an important event or to pull the plug from the frenzy of my career. And how wonderful when, during a return sail from Greece, on a pitching boat, the first notes of my violin drew a shoal of dolphins that escorted and followed as an audience at a concert. Maybe it was only a coincidence, but I like believing it was not...
It is uncommon for an eleven-year-old boy to be aware of what he wants from life and even of what the future has in store for him. But curiosity, subsequently matched with a big enthusiasm, plenty of ambition and a good deal of a typically youthful ego were the right mix for me to face relocations, competitions, constant travels and the captivating taste of the forestage, shortly afterwards and in the following years.
But there is an element, whose ancestral presence accompanied some important moments of my life: the sea. I was at sea to oyster when, at the early age of eleven, my mother literally dragged me out against my will and brought me to the conservatory of Lecce, my hometown, to sit the entrance examination for the violin class. I sat before Genoa sea front when, in 1991, I fervently felt that I could really win the Paganini Competition.
And today I “find myself” at sea, whenever I need to gather strength for an important event or to pull the plug from the frenzy of my career. And how wonderful when, during a return sail from Greece, on a pitching boat, the first notes of my violin drew a shoal of dolphins that escorted and followed as an audience at a concert. Maybe it was only a coincidence, but I like believing it was not...
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