All teaching articles – Page 6
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ArticleJascha Heifetz gives violin masterclass
You're playing it too safe. Let's do it more dangerous' Violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz gives a masterclass for students at the University of Southern California. First up to perform is Varoujan Kodjian in Wieniawski's Polonaise Brillante no.2. Read Sherry Kloss's account on what it was like to ...
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FocusHow to phrase feedback get the best from your student
Are the words teachers use helping or harming their students? Femke Colborne learns from psychologists and string instructors that the way feedback is phrased can dramatically affect a student's progress
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BlogsPlaying with less emotion can create more beautiful music
Putting in more effort does not necessarily mean greater improvement, writes violin professor and soloist Andrej Bielow
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Premium ❘ Feature6 insights into teaching the double bass by Mary Condliffe
The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama professor shares her methods for teaching bass students
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NewsBBC launches Ten Pieces primary school classical music initiative
The ten chosen works will introduce children to classical music and encourage creativity
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FocusTeaching a stringed instrument you have never played before
What do you do if you're asked to teach a stringed instrument that isn't the one you play? ‘Don't panic!' That's the first rule, according to the experts that Ariane Todes asked
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Premium ❘ FeatureHow to breathe freely when playing a stringed instrument
Ruth Phillips describes how she persuades musicians to rediscover their body and their instrument through the gentle art of inhaling
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Premium ❘ DebateWhy do so few string players start out learning the viola?
The UK may be producing some talented viola players, but violist Louise Lansdown cannot understand how, when the instrument is under-supported at grass-roots level
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Premium ❘ FeatureEngaging uncommitted parents with their child's music lessons
Teacher Talk: your string teaching questions answered by our panel of experts
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ArticlePhilharmonia Orchestra launches iOrchestra to encourage instrumental tuition
The project targets the South West of the UK, where in some areas over a third of children do not learn an instrument
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BlogsMelancholy and perfectionism: South Korea's love of Western classical music
German violinist Viktoria Elisabeth Kaunzner reports on her experiences teaching in South Korea for the past three years
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BlogsClass and race should not be barriers to a classical music education
American violinist Tai Murray introduces some of the themes of her talk on ‘Class, Race and Classical Music' with political activist Candace Allen at the English Speaking Union next week
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FocusHow young is too young when starting children on the violin?
Teacher Talk: your string teaching queries answered by the experts
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ArticleUK study to assess cultural value of Sistema music education project
Researchers based at the University of East Anglia are to examine the cultural value of projects inspired by Venezuela’s El Sistema music education programme. The study will focus on three projects across England: In Harmony Newcastle Gateshead, Sistema in Norwich and In Harmony Telford & Stoke.‘The value of young people's ...
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ArticleEx-Chetham's teacher Malcolm Layfield arrested
Malcolm Layfield, former head of strings at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), has been arrested on suspicion of three historic rapes. The 61-year-old, who quit his post at the RNCM in February, was detained over alleged offences of rape against three girls, two aged 16 and one aged ...
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ArticleFernando Grillo (1946–2013)
Fernando Grillo, the Italian double bassist, composer and teacher, has died at the age of 67. Closely associated with Italy’s avant-garde movement, he experimented with new forms of sound production and collaborated with composers including Salvatore Sciarrino, Harrison Birtwistle, Iannis Xenakis and Luciano Berio. Karlheinz Stockhausen once dubbed Grillo ‘the ...
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DebateUse intellect, not instinct
Instead of simply focusing on technical prowess, performers should have as profound an understanding of music theory as composers do, argues cellist David Watkin, since it can only serve to develop their skills
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ArticlePittsburgh Symphony concertmaster joins Carnegie Mellon faculty
Noah Bendix-Balgley, concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO), is to join the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University School of Music in September 2013. The 28-year-old violinist (pictured), who has occupied the concertmaster’s chair since 2011, will coach student quartets. Bendix-Balgley was the first violinist of the Athlos Quartet from ...
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FocusShould all performers learn how to teach?
Performance degree students should put all their energies into becoming great performers, and leave learning teaching skills to their music education counterparts – right? Wrong, say Cornelia Watkins and Laurie Scott, authors of From the Stage to the Studio: how fine musicians become great teachers. In an exclusive article in ...
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ArticleUS music camp to teach beginner strings to amputee children
A new music camp for amputee and limb-different children who want to learn stringed instruments or piano launches next week in Cincinnati, US.The Cincinnati Adaptive Music Camp will provide students with any adaptive devices, such as special fittings or instrument platforms, that they need to be able to ...
