My American Viola Society Residency Videos

Mar 5

My last blog post featured my first video as the American Viola Society Digital Artist-in-Residence for January/February. I was so pleased and honored to have been chosen for this role, and enjoyed the process of making weekly videos, something I haven’t done in a long time!

Over the course of my residency, I covered what I consider to be some of the most important (and often neglected) topics on our instrument including:

Developing independent and nuanced control of the the left and right hands (the pat your head/rub your stomach conundrum)
How to cultivate stronger rhythm
The benefits of silent practice and slow practice (and what really is slow practice??)
Flipping the script on impatience in the practice room
My favorite resources for violists
And more!

For those of you that don’t use Instagram/Facebook, or just didn’t catch all the videos, I’ve collected them all here into one YouTube playlist. Click on the button on the top right corner (where it says “1/8”) to see all the videos in the series.

Let me know what you think in the comments!