Orchestra

If you have spent much time in the company of career orchestral string players, you will undoubtedly encounter or witness...

Originally intended as a “grand finale” to the series of articles addressing orchestral etiquette(s), I am finally able to present...

I have often wondered how music appreciation can effectively be taught in a class-setting.

There are many significant benefits to being able to adjust and maintain clarinet reeds.

Have you ever tried to saw wood with a dull saw blade? Or tried to use a butter knife instead...

There are good reasons guiding a fairly uncontested rule of ethics amongst teachers who provide individual instruction to students in...

It is rare to hear a string player be anything but enthusiastic when it comes to playing with other musicians of...

As with any other situation in which one must study and prepare to perform under pressure, musicians have many different...

As musicians and educators, I suspect at some point in time each of us has experienced “the fear.”

There are few aspects of playing a stringed instrument (specifically violin/viola) which feel like a natural, physically familiar, comfortable use...

The degree of personal investment required of a string player to gain instrumental proficiency and musical excellence is astounding. For...

That Sunday evening, Gudrun from the German Friends of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq, Najat Amin, our Kurdish composer...