The day’s final glow from Bastyr dormitory. Photo: © Charles Noble Tonight was the final faculty chamber concert of the 2009 Max Aronoff Viola Institute, a string camp that I started along with University of Puget Sound viola faculty Joyce Ramée back in 1990. It was a great concert on three counts: the quality of
Tonight was one of those nights where I was intimately reconnected with why I became a performer in the first place. It’s about people. The person the composer, who in their genius rendered their innermost thoughts into sublime music. The person the performer, who studied for years to be able to recreate and interpret that
This week I’m up in Kenmore, Washington teaching and performing at the Max Aronoff Viola Institute, which I helped to found 18 years ago. The facility that we use is Bastyr University, which has all the classrooms and the lovely Chapel which is acoustically renowned (and used for a lot of movie scoring work during