About VÆRNA 　　I’ve met on-line and in person so many wonderful people! Listen up you young folk, you have it easy with all this wonderful new technology that gives me brain damage. I started playing an old upright piano and an old Conn organ at the age of four. Vinyl at the time, was a luxury and all tapes were reel to reel. I was born partially blind so my ears developed much more than my eyes and I have this odd way of memorizing and reproducing music. I began formal training when I was 7. My first teacher, a retired harpist, helped me compose and publish my first piece of music at age 10. I stayed with training in school and with private teachers and have won awards for performances. I stuck with training, taught myself guitar, recorder, and discovered electronic keyboards as I began college. I began to play in bands and with other local musicians during college and after graduation, began working in the visual arts field where some of my art has been used commercially. I learned old school recording, including sore fingers and lots of tape. I purchased my first synth (a DX 7 with the band) and a Roland D-20 soon after and began the process of recording and sequencing on my own. I learned to play and adore handbells in later years in church along with guitar and my synth. At this time, Hearts of Space began it’s radio broadcasts which I listened to religiously and still do but only via the computer now as it isn’t broadcasted here. I began collecting that music as fast as I could. I now listen to Alpha Rhythms, a local broadcast that has introduced me to more music and will be playing my music as soon as that album is completed. If I have the chance I also listen to Echoes another broadcast. My music is a compilation of pieces composed as late as 28 years ago to the present day and is a reflection of my life’s experiences. As ordinary life sometimes interferes with this type of hobby, (I’m not quitting a day job!:P) I’ve had dry years of surviving life given setbacks, and the arrival of my greatest creation, my son, who demanded my time and attention. I never lost my music, nor my art, never gave up, just put it on hold. Thank you VS23 for getting my dream launched and running.