Holiday greetings from Violinist.com headquarters in Pasadena, Calif.! As 2025 comes to an end, I'm taking a little time to ...

I'm an adult amateur violinist living in the Washington DC area. I enjoy orchestral playing, chamber music, and being a pit musician, in addition to working on the solo repertoire. I've done some ...

I started violin lessons and piano lessons at the age of 5. When I left home for college in 1983, I kept up with piano as a staff accompanist in the Music Department at Hope College, and as a jazz ...

The holiday season is in full swing with fairy lights and festive decorations, music, parties and special food...But where I ...

The concepts illustrated in this short paper have been expressed by fine teachers for many years. However, many players still struggle with incorrect posture and a lack of ease of playing. By ...

November 19, 2012, 3:51 PM · Have you been secretly wishing to shed both your shoulder rest and chinrest? Here is your friendly, expert guide: Baroque violinist and Indiana University Professor ...

September 29, 2016, 3:07 PM · As a child learning to play the violin in Shanghai during China's Cultural Revolution, Vera Tsu Weiling hid in a dark basement to practice, using sheets of music copied ...

If you are new to the violin, you might be tempted to buy one of the low-priced violins advertised all over the Internet – by low-priced I mean anything under about $300. Don't do it. Having a cheap ...

October 5, 2012, 11:29 AM · When one of the foremost experts on violin technique writes a book of double-stop exercises, one must take note! The expert I speak of is Roland Vamos, who is one-half of ...

August 29, 2013, 9:16 AM · What size violin does my child need? My friend Heather asked me this question, and I realized, a lot of people must be asking the same thing, either for their young beginner ...

The popular 'Suzuki Method' grew from the educational philosophy of Shin'ichi Suzuki (1898-1998), born in Nagoya, Japan. He was one of 12 children, and his father owned a violin factory. Shin'ichi ...

October 22, 2014, 2:36 PM · For soloist Giora Schmidt, playing a modern violin is no Plan B. But coming around to that feeling of certainty was a major education and a long journey. Giora spoke about ...