‘Know the rules before you break them’ - Matt Haimovitz’s life lessons

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Irene Sharp, my first teacher in Palo Alto, was unbelievably organised with her approach. Unfortunately for her, I had a voracious appetite for knowledge and wanted to know everything all at once! She had wonderful animal metaphors for playing: things a child could implement and feel instantly. After a year with her I started studying with Gábor Rejtő, firstly in Stanford and then in Los Angeles when I was ten years old. Every other week, my mother and I would fly to LA for a few days of intensive lessons with him…