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Vreny Van Elslande

Vreny was born in the medieval Flemish town of Ypers in Belgium. He went to music school at the age of 7 and… called it quits after he got bored with the whole rigid classical music education after 2 years of solfege and ear training without playing an instrument.

At age 17, after numerous brief musical attempts through the years on accordion, drums (which Vreny actually pursued) and other instruments, a high school friend introduced Vreny to guitar. Within 3 minutes of holding a guitar in his hands, Vreny had a magical epiphany: "Wow... this is what I want to do for a living".

When he finished his military service, Vreny had been fooling around on guitar for about 2 years, through self-study. The Gemini in him got impatient and he decided he probably would progress faster if he would enroll the top-level music school again that he gave up on at age 7. After a huge, long discussion during his registration for enrollment, Vreny convinced the school board to make an exception to their very rigid institutional tradition in classical guitar music education, and enroll him as their first left-handed classical guitar student ever.

A decision they soon became very happy with, cause Vreny turned out to be one of their fastest progressing students ever in the long history of this highly acclaimed music academy. He finished the very intense 10-year program in classical guitar performance and classical composition, theory and ear training in barely 7 years time, which was unheard of. During this time Vreny had entertained and amazed his teachers with numerous compositions he had written.

Today he works as a full time, highly sought after guitar instructor and performer. The renowned Musicians Institute in Hollywood also unexpectedly offered Vreny a full scholarship to enroll as a full time student at MI, where he had a fun time hanging out and jamming with his fellow teachers during his 10-week special program.

Read his full bio at http://www.vreny.com !