There aren’t a lot of career options for classically trained musicians – for most, either you win an orchestra job or two, or you don’t, in which case you spend your life freelancing and teaching to make ends meet. But in Los Angeles, a paradigm shift is underway, in the form of “a small but growing and spirited subculture of young, classically trained female L.A. musicians who have skirted the symphony audition path to play ‘alternative’ musical genres and enjoy eclectic entertainment-industry work now that the Hollywood studios are no longer boys’ clubs… The impressive range of styles they play provides them with a level of excitement and performance satisfaction that more traditional musicians cannot claim — and they wouldn’t have it any other way.”