Why I Don’t Post my Violin Playing on Instagram
“Finally—first violin video in decades. Please do more.” This was a comment I received the first time I posted a video of my playing on my instagram page. While I […]
You Don’t Suck: Setting Practice Boundaries
Every time I’m asked to play Prokofiev’s 5th Symphony, I have intense flashbacks to my first experience learning and performing it. I had just finished my freshman year of high […]
Tetris and Extended Practice Breaks: Are they even Related?
Considering my last post was over four years ago, I hesitate to call this a blog. But this is definitely a bloggish-style post, because it’s gonna be a haphazard collection […]
The journey ends :)
Hello readers! The audition journey has come to an end, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world: I have just won the position of Fourth Chair Second […]
Auditions: The Olympics of Classical Music
As 2014 comes to a close, I decided it was time to update my readers on what’s new in my musical life. I am entering my final semester of Graduate […]
Violin Lessons
My conductor here at The Shepherd School of Music, maestro Larry Rachleff, stresses that as musicians, we must give back what we have learned through our endless hours of practice […]
The 2013 New York String Orchestra Seminar
New York Times Review: NYSOS 2013 in Carnegie Hall I have just returned from an unforgettable ten-day program: The New York String Orchestra Seminar. Conducted by Maestro Jaime Laredo, the […]
Listen With Your Eyes
I have always felt that though the arts are communicated through different mediums, they are all interconnected in our minds. Whenever I play, there is a visual that appears: a […]
Andrea Jarrett 