Loser Thoughts (Part 1)
Learning is great!
But sometimes it sucks.
Sometimes it’s quite hard to push through old habits or to stay focused. It’s so easy to get distracted and not follow through what you wanted to achieve.
This will help: free yourself from loser thoughts. We all have them from time to time.
The trick is to catch them and turn them around into a question. When you do that nobody can ever stop you.>>
Oh boy, how often did your hear that? When you are like me you heard it about a million times and – uh… you also said it yourself here and there (and some more heres and theres) as well.
The truth is – and we all know it
if you want to do something you will make time,
if you do not want to do something you will make an excuse.
So start making one step back. What is your music making all about?
Why do you play the bassoon, tuning fork or washboard? Why did you first start it? What was your initial motivation?>>
Many times we do not have control over what is happening in our life. It just happens the way it does – whether we like it or not. No control.
But we do have control over how we react. We can always decide what our attitude is. How we see things and how we process them.
A great teacher once told me: “Don’t be dramatic – unless you are an actor and get payed for it.” This was maybe the best piece of advice I ever got.>>
Education: academic studies of music and in the good wine of Burgundy
Passion: conducting big symphony orchestras | astrology | balkan dances
Always searching for: new sounds | peace in the world
long & boring version:
Colombe Arnulf-Kempcke studied flute and piano, majoring also in composition, classical harmony and orchestration (with Guillaume Connesson) at CRR Aubervilliers and other places throughout France.
At the moment, she is flute teacher in Versailles and teaching at project DEMOS (Philharmonie de Paris). Colombe is giving particular lessons as piano teacher for little, little bigger and not so little students.
In the last few years she has conducted different orchestras in France with her own pieces (yesssss!!) and others such as Dvorak’s New World Symphony and Arturo Marquez’ Danzon n°2. Which makes her very proud!
In addition, she is learning to perfect in conducting with Julien Leroy.
Education: None | At least none that would have turned into money.
Passion: hammocks, beach chairs, couches together with preferably alkohol containing drinks | background music: Miles Davis – Sketches from Spain
Always searching for: the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
long & boring version:
Fritz Kotrba was born at the first half of the last century. So he finds himself living as a trickster in a world that is truly not his own.
When he was threatened by brutal stagnation, the friendly network of AnselmaMusic came to rescue him.
Now he is busy producing daily violence and irony free artwork suitable for toddlers…
Sadly and unexpectedly we lost Fritz in November of 2018.
Rest in peace, we love you Fritz – your artwork lives on!
Education: Creating colours out of black and white keys
Passion: breeding little plants for little appartments plants | fabricating little japanese treats | photography
Always searching for: interesting music and new pieces | beautiful parks and shoes that fit
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Hiroyo Masumura loves the piano. So much that she is around festivals playing chamber music and giving solo recitals all over the place.
She played at Klavierwoche Gasteig in Munich, in the Arnold-Schönberg-Center Vienna and at The Edinburgh Festival, Scotland.
Hiroyo has a strong passion for teaching as well. As a piano teacher at the Vienna State Music School she writes new stuff for her students – music that they adore and that fires them up.
Hiroyo is a prize winner at piano composition competitions such as Wendl & Lung Vienna and PTNA (The Piano Teachers’ National Association of Japan).
She is the winner of Wiener Pianisten Wettbewerb, the Steinway Förderpreis Munich and the Japanese Competition for Classical Music ピティナ・ピアノコンペティション PTNA Piano Competition (PTNA: Piano Teachers’ National Association of Japan).
As pianist and répétiteur Hiroyo also conducted several music theater productions. Which gave her lots of experience in improvising.
In music – and in general… ;o)
She graduated with distinction and highest scores in piano (performing diploma) in Kanagawa (Japan), Munich and Vienna.
Hiroyo started her career at home in the living room giving improvisation concerts together with her sister.
Her first compositions were accompaniments for famous japanese popsongs that she played by ear.
Education: Doctor of veterinary medicine
Passions: animals – alive and painted
Always seacrhing for: new challenges and old wisdom
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Astrid Seemann was born with many funny ideas in her head and tries to bring them to paper with colourful pencils ever since. She loves painting and also dogs, cats, guinea pigs and cows. So she became a veterinary.
Astrid Seeman is a passionate bass player, but luckily she likes bassoonists too. They also make nice sounds and good mood as well.
In the picture you see her with Ylvi and Nelli, Models for “On a Sailboat”.
Education: students are the greatest teachers!
Passions: being curious of everything | traveling to Greenland, Usbekistan, Oman, Lesotho | mountain climbing on Kilimanjaro, Großglockner, Alpamayo chico, Kang Yatze | assisting in the unfolding of my students full potential
Always searching for: new insights about teaching | bassoons that can be adapted to students hand and body sizes | inspirating through books | recreation in nature
long & boring version:
After operating with cool refrigerating machines and air conditioning grills, Gilbert Hirtz picked up his bassoon and studied music to be a warmhearted teacher. As a real all-rounder he likewise feels at home with the oboe, saxophone, clarinet and flute.
He is not a person of many words. So he let his students talk for him (who usually win the first prices in nationwide competitions) and the music he composes and arranges. Internationally he is best know for the only available method for the tenor clef “The Key to Tenor Clef”. Not many words in it, but lots of music…
Education: tooting and strumming
Passions: studying google maps for hours and finally ending up somewhere else | left and right must be for amateurs | browsing and browsing and browsing – and bying nothing | eating gummy bears in the red sunset at the blue ocean
Always searching for: the perfect handbag | a break-resistant shopping ally | the ideal place for happiness | mango pudding
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Karin Holzschuster is a proven expert in teaching bassoon and guitar – not only does she take on one by one student, but also teaches a whole company of students at the same time. She conducts a guitar-orchestra with 35 guitarists and before concerts she does not hesitate to check if all 210 strings are perfectly in tune…
Karin Holzschuster studied bassoon and music pedagogy (majoring in guitar) in the Graz Music University. Already before graduating she was appointed in two renowned music schools. She experienced that teaching guitar was comfy due to a huge amount of lovely books and heaps of nice music. Teaching bassoon was oh-so-Weissenborn.
To make her lessons a wellspring of motivation and fun, Karin Holzschuster started composing tunes, etudes, and little concert pieces for her students. Her music includes sweet melodies, fancy rhythms and also a pedagogic thread, which supports students to become great bassoonists one day. Today Karin Holzschuster´s books are internationally renowned as first class teaching literature.
Education: from cardboard boxer to boxing cartoonist
Passions: being even more famous | everything that does not make too much work
Always searching for: more
long & boring version:
Oliver Ottitsch was born 1983 around noon. He never used to be an early bird. Pressed and plagued by his own long lasting insignificance to his own surprise he became a shooting star in the cartoon heaven. Today he is a successful guy known by everbody and his mother, even Wikipedia. His cartoons are shown in the Subway of Vienna to make waiting funny.
His original artwork is published by renown German magazines such as Stern, Titanic, Eulenspiegel, Nebelspalter and Bananenblatt. In 2013 he won the Cartoon prize Pas de deux / Paarlauf of the Goethe-Institut and a special prize by the German Ambassy in Paris. He is also a prize winner of the German’s Mathematicians Society. They like to laugh as well here and there.
In Anselma’s bassoon sheet music books he delights green horns and old rabbits and motivates bassoonists left, right and center with his humorous artworks.
