What happens when a famous solo goes disastrously wrong in front of a huge audience? This is the premise of Solo, a new novel by author and musician Caroline Swinburne, which delves into the murky world of performance anxiety and the mental health struggles of classical musicians. In this guest blog post by the author, we get a sneak peek behind the novel and the difficulties of researching it due to the reluctance that many musicians have about destroying the illusion of super-human perfection that we’ve come to expect of our top musicians.
Read Caroline’s blog for Alternative Classical here