“A 16-year-old Central Texas girl born with a disability that left her with 3 fingers on one hand … says she doesn’t consider her condition a disability at all,” writes Julie Hays on Monday (2/17) at KWTX-TV News 10 (Waco, TX). “Gina Gravagne, a Waco area resident … performed over the weekend with the Texas All-State Symphony Orchestra…. She’s played the viola since she was 4…. She was born with a rare congenital condition called symbrachydactyly, which left her without middle and ring fingers on her right hand and three others that weren’t normal.… Most of the time, she forgets she’s any different from any other musicians adding she has ‘just the right amount of fingers and grip strength to hold a bow. Actually half the time I forget about it,’ she said…. She is the principal viola of the Waco Symphony Youth Orchestra. She was a soloist with the Albuquerque Philharmonic in 2017…. She practices every day and studies viola at the Central Texas String Academy.” Gravagne says, “I figure that anything anyone can do, I figure out a way to do, too.”
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