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City Strings: Gillian Rivers | by Justin Colletti

"Gillian Rivers is everything a classical violinist could want to be: She’s young, she’s beautiful, and she makes a reasonable living playing and arranging music for critically acclaimed contemporary composers. The only catch is that most of these composers turned out to be the songwriters in rock bands like MGMT, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and TV On The Radio. But Rivers says she wouldn’t have it any other way.
“I studied in classical conservatories with very strict teachers,” Rivers told me over drinks in the dapper lobby of the Bowery Hotel.[...]"