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Minnesota Varsity: Willem Villerius

Willem Villerius
Willem Villerius
2019 Minnesota Varsity - Willem Villerius
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Instrument: Bass Trombone

Hometown: Minneapolis

Piece: Alexander Lebedev — Concerto in One Movement

Why do you love to perform?

Throughout my life, I've grown to love the collaborative nature of music, and have found it to be immensely influential to my social and emotional maturing as an adolescent. Because of this, my goals as a musician are to be able to give back to the field of music through educating, performing, and creating. I want to be able to mix music with my other interests (such as history, literature, and linguistics, among others) so that I can create more enriching and stimulating musical experiences for myself and, hopefully, others as well. There is no doubt in my mind that the most powerful and illuminating emotional experiences I've had thus far in my life have been shared experiences over music. I want to be a conduit for these sorts of experiences in the same way that my teachers and conductors have been for me. In short, I want to enrich the lives of others with music in the same way music has enriched my own life.

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