Brendan believes that everyone can learn to appreciate and love music, and that it can be a new way of communicating, building bonds, and connecting with people who may look, sound, or speak differently. He maintains a private music studio teaching lessons to students on violin, guitar and piano. He has served as the concertmaster for the NOVA-Annandale Symphony Orchestra and regularly performs chamber music with members of the Alexandria Chamber Music Society. Since then, Brendan has performed with the Washington Metropolitan Symphony, the McLean Symphony, the Prince George's Philharmonic, and the Alexandria Symphony. His violin opened the door to opportunity, and he ran through it. When they were breaking into people’s houses, he was practicing Dvorak and Mozart. Friends he grew up with are today sitting in jail when they were out running the streets, he was in rehearsals. When he was nine, he started playing violin through a public school music program. He believes that it’s a life-saving force, and a gift we should always offer our children. The Conspiracy’s heist is certainly interesting, and the investigation takes up a lot of air time. The premise has precedent in John Meade Falkner’s 1895 novel, The Lost Stradivarius. Like any high art item, instruments of this caliber make the news when lost or stolen. Music has always played a major part of Brendan’s life. The Violin Conspiracy is a story about a stolen Stradivarius.
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