BIOGRAPHY
Tobermory 2019
About Vroni
Let's start with the music. I started the piano at eight years old after begging my mum to play this lovely instrument instead of the pesky violin. At last she gave in and I excelled in hammering out my favourite classical pieces and ragtime alike, much to the terror of my amazing piano teacher Eberhard Wetzel.
Other instruments I learned at one point or another were (the screechy) violin, the trumpet, the guitar, the accordion and the vocal chords. The latter have no range whatsoever but quite a nice vibrato which can be used for maximum effect on silly songs about cars and walks in the park.
Another thing I've done all my life was to take photos of everything and anything, people, animals, nature. As long as it wasn't boring stuff like architecture. Sorry, being mean to buildings isn't really called for here. I used to arrange my many guinea pigs in lines and stacks in order to get that perfect shot. I was about ten years old. It never quite stopped.
So I studied photography at Napier University. It was fun. I even switched to film studies in my last year, so I could make a documentary about my favrouite pub, the Royal Oak. To this day I look for projects that take me to the pub. Any excuse : )
Vroni Holzmann
BA (Hons) - Photography, Film & TV Napier University, Edinburgh
MMus - Composition
Edinburgh University, Edinburgh
Concerts
Glow on the Horizon
Edinburgh Society of Musicians, Edinburgh
JANUARY 28 - 2017
Alpenlicht
Hans-Schuster-Haus, Rosenheim, Germany
OCTOBER 15 - 2016
Broadcasts
Loch Lomond Beech
The Daffodil Perspective, London
JANUARY 3 - 2020
Dream Tree Piano Cycle
International Alliance of Women in Music, Virginia, USA
JULY 20 - 2016
Exhibitions
Die spinnen, die Briten!
Verein für bodenständige Kultur, Rosenheim, Germany
MARCH 7 - SEPTEMBER 10 - 2019
Alpenlicht
Verein für bodenständige Kultur, Rosenheim, Germany
OCTOBER 20 2016 - JANUARY 30 2017
Awards
"Tried Very Hard Award"
EDINBURGH - 1999
"Outstanding Amateur" - Semi-Finalist *
LONDON - 2007
"Academic Decathlon - Debate Prize" *
PENNSYLVANIA - 1988
"Silliest Grown Up" - 1st Place
EDINBURGH - 2020
* this is real ; )