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nice view

by Charles Noble on July 7, 2009

This is why (besides the great students I worked with this year) teaching at MAVI this year was so nice – a great view from my teaching room!

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odds and ends

by Charles Noble on July 1, 2009

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 the performances, [...]

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mavi magic

by Charles Noble on June 28, 2009

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 [...]

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what’s coming up

by Charles Noble on June 24, 2009

Student performers at the 2008 Max Aronoff Viola Institute
Photo © Charles Noble

On Thursday we venture North to Seattle to begin rehearsals for the faculty performances at the 19th edition of the Max Aronoff Viola Institute.  I co-founded MAVI with my undergrad teacher Joyce Ramée, and it’s been going strong ever since.  The festival runs from [...]

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teaching/performing

by Charles Noble on June 30, 2008

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 [...]

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