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What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. My name is Valerie Arsino, and I play the violin, and I love to teach and to perform. I started playing the violin when I was five years old, right before kindergarten, so I think that's 44 years now. Teaching is one of my favorite things to do, and I think that shows in my professional concerts, I'm most relaxed and most at home when I'm teaching the audience as well as performing for them. It relaxes me to speak to the audience, instead of just coming out all silent and playing music and then shuffling off. And every time I have a new student, or a student that I've kept for 10 years who has been coming to see me, and I've been with them as they've grown up, and they'll have a lesson, and I learned something new every single lesson. Sometimes I think that the students teach me as much if not more than I teach the students, and I love that reciprocal, mutually supportive arrangement, and the experience of that. It's unique. I got a note after our first concert back in person after the pandemic locked down, and she said, this is the first music concert I've left my house for, and she couldn't imagine a better experience, and I need to just put that on my bulletin board for inspiration when I feel like the work is so hard. My name is Valerie Arsano, and I play the violin, and I'm the music director of the Tallahassee Bach Parley. You're listening to voices that inspire.