It's wedding season, which, for myself here in coastal California is basically year round now, and I think a lot of string players can relate to this question posed recently in a violinist forum: How do we approach learning contemporary pop repertoire ...

Recently, a couple of new beginning students told me that they'd tried to figure out how to rosin their bows prior to starting lessons but couldn't find any good rosining videos. I was surprised, but hey, I've never recorded a rosining video either. ...

I can’t say if this is a trend yet, but suddenly, twice in the past month I’ve been asked by wedding clients whether the musicians in my trio have to be set up near each other to perform, or whether we can be scattered around the venue, and here’s ...

What if "doing the music thing" didn't conjure subsisting on ramen and scrounging together rent money from a few random gigs and students, but finding a "path to remarkable success," positioning yourself in unique spaces and with ...

What scale or excerpt should you choose to audition with? What should you do if all the excerpts are either too difficult and others too easy? When you have limited time to prepare the material, where should you put your focus for the most pay off? ...