the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship supports a year-long service project for students in health-related professions, and lucky for all the musicians out there, recently the ASF has begun recruiting musicians in addition to med students (and others)! A bit less than half-way into the year, it has already proven an amazing experience for me — the chance to follow through on longer-term project than any I have undertaken before, the support of the other Boston Fellows, the inspiration from learning about Albert Schweitzer and from listening to my colleagues in the Fellowship talk about their own projects, the chance to create and work on a project all my own, to make one of the many dreams in my head a reality — it has been priceless.
And it’s been a lot of work, too! If I thought that it was difficult to balance playing at school and gigging in Boston, teaching private students and my studio teacher’s sophomores, volunteering at a yoga studio and training for a marathon, living in the moment and planning for Next Year, this is an entirely new ballgame.
But one worth working for and worth the sacrifices. Check out the website, the other fellows and their projects, opportunities for growth in other cities (Boston is the only Fellowship city that has begun to accept music students — could Baltimore be next?), the inspiring quotes from Schweitzer. . . .