{"id":1948,"date":"2014-05-21T13:57:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birgit-kolar.com\/welcome\/"},"modified":"2014-05-21T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:57:16","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birgit-kolar.com\/en\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome!<\/p>\n<p>I welcome you all to my new website, and to my blog!<\/p>\n<p>To blog or not to blog, this question kept me pondering for quite a while. Should I do this to myself? Should I do this to anyone ?<\/p>\n<p>Then, as I was creating this new site and updating my resum\u00e9, I realised that this year is my twentieth anniversary as a concertmaster.\u00a0 And I\u00b4d like to share with you everything I felt as I became aware of this period of time and all it means to me.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years&#8230; Looking back, it feels like time has simply flown, its almost unbelievable&#8230; It has been an incredible journey through the depths of musical, emotional and human intensity, through ups and downs, moments of glory and of learning that\u00a0 can\u00b4t be forced into a time scheme. It is about an inner treasure, immeasureable, infinite.<\/p>\n<p>Writing about my musical carreer could be interesting, of course, but in this opening blog I prefer to briefly relate my personal journey\u00a0 &#8211; the development I was priviledged to experience.<\/p>\n<p>How does it feel to become the concert master of a major symphony orchestra at the age of 24? Exhilarating, for the soul, but also in no small measure for the ego\u2026 You have proved something to yourself, but also to everyone else, and naturally you are happy and proud of your achievement.<\/p>\n<p>How does it feel, twenty years on, to have become the concertmaster of a comparatively young, up-and-coming symphonic orchestra in Spain?<br \/>\nMy soul rejoices, and I am filled with a deep sense of gratitude. Gratitude for being able to contribute some of the experience I have gathered over the years, but also to build upon it further. Gratitude for working in an environment that allows me to fully open my heart to the music, let go of my ego and immerse myself in boundless creativity.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll surely tell you about the road in between these two milestones in other entries. 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