Projects & Personal Life

Rhiannon closeup of face smiling while playing violin

Fiddleheads' Owner and symphony violinist Rhiannon Nachbaur lives a rich life with her husband and two children in Kamloops, BC, Canada.

This collection of articles focuses on her engaging projects and personal news.


 

  1. My Early Retirement from Teaching and Symphonic Playing

    Rhiannon, with pink hair and cat ears and a bedazzled band shirt, sits in a wheelchair at a Muse rock concert

    Due to health reasons, I no longer teach or play violin/viola professionally but my violin love story is far from over

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  2. Cringeworthy Typos from the Violin Shop Trenches

    Woman at laptop holding her head in her hands, text bubble from laptop says

    Autocorrect Can't Save Me From Typos and Speech-to-Text Mishaps

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  3. A Duct Tape... Violin?

    duct tape violin with a roll of duct tape

    Photo Gallery: Taking "you can make anything out of duct tape" to a whole new level

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  4. My Return to the Symphony

    Rhiannon holding sheet music from the mail

    Between Motherhood, work and relationship challenges it's easy to put our love of music last. Here's Rhiannon's story of how she returned to her beloved symphonic career and became a healthier, happier person for it.

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  5. Photo Gallery: Mozart's Requiem

    Rhiannon, with rainbow coloured hair, tunes the orchestra as concertmaster

    A hike followed by a Brandenburg Orchestra concert.

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  6. Photo Gallery: My First Time Playing with the Okanagan Symphony

    Rhiannon standing on stage with the Okanagan symphony orchestra warming up around her

    Only weeks after joining the Musicians' Union I was hired to multiple pops performances of John Denver's original arrangements with the Okanagan Symphony.

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  7. The Shuswap Violin Society: A Legacy for a Violin Community

    various seniors and children holding violins they have donated

    Fiddleheads' owner Rhiannon Nachbaur and a few adult students created a legacy for violinists and fiddlers of the Shuswap region of British Columbia. The Society operated during a productive 5-year-span from 2003 to 2007.

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  8. Photo Memory: Helix High School Orchestra 1995

    High school string orchestra in concert black outdoors

    Rhiannon was concertmaster of this group for three years

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  9. Baby has a Name!

    Rhiannon smiling with her 7 year child and newborn baby

    After a week our little one has a name!

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  10. It's a Boy!

    Little girl with blue eyes and a newborn baby wearing a white hat with cat ears

    A healthy, beautiful baby boy came into our lives last week

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