The Music!

My father is a musician, so I grew up with the music. He is now retired, but worked all his life at the music college in Arvika, Ingesunds musikhögskola.

When I was 5 years old, my parents asked me if I wanted to start playing the piano. Already at that early age I was determined to do things my way, so I told them I wanted to play the violin. So I did. One of the teachers at the music collage used me as an experiement for teaching small children, called the Suzuki method. I'm not really sure what that means, I was a bit too young to remember what I did. I think my mother once told me I learned to play from listening to music tapes.

I remember that my teacher taught me the bowing by putting a coin on the back of my hand. If I could keep it there for long enough, I could keep the coin...

Unfortunately I didn't do my homework, so the world lost a great violinist in me.