Gaelynn Lea Tressler of Duluth, Minnesota
discovered her love of music back in 4th grade when the orchestra
came to her school. She fell in love with her first musical instrument, the
cello.
Finding the cello too large to
play, Gaelynn used creativity to figure out how to have a relationship with
this instrument, and that began her journey of playing the cello as a violin.
When she plays, she says it’s a spiritual
experience and feels connected to something bigger than herself.
Born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, or
brittle bones, Gaelynn experienced many fractures while in utero. Her legs and arms are small, and because most
of her fractures occurred in her arms, this has made playing the violin in its
traditional form more challenging and so playing as a cello just made more sense.