‘Learning to trust yourself is a never-ending process’ - Nils Mönkemeyer’s life lessons

From an early age I knew, perhaps not consciously, that I always liked playing the lower register of the violin more than the higher register. I sounded nicer on the lower strings. And one time at youth orchestra I swapped instruments with the violist in my quartet and it was the exact sound I had been looking for since starting the violin. So at the age of 15, I made the switch from violin to viola…