Just a heads up that I’ve got two new performance recordings up on InstantEncore.com. They’re both from this past summer’s 2010 Max Aronoff Viola Institute, which I co-founded 20 years ago and have served on the faculty ever since. The works are the Bartók Viola Concerto and Daniel Ott’s Parting for viola alone. The pianist
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On Thursday the 20th edition of the Max Aronoff Viola Institute came to a close with an over two hour concert by all of the participants we’ve worked with since Sunday.
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Lots of teaching and chamber music coaching was done on Tuesday, with some private lessons thrown in for good measure. Got to meet a young woman who was taking viola lessons via Skype while on deployment with the US Army in Iraq, what a story! She came to the evening concert with her distance-learning teacher.
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I awoke Monday morning with the happy awareness that the Bartók performance was behind me, and that it didn’t suck, so the day started off pretty well, just by that standard.
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The first day (half-day really) of the 20th Max Aronoff Viola Institute went quite well. Heather and I drove up from Tacoma, arriving around 1 p.m. at the Bastyr University campus. We got our stuff moved in, and then I started to warm up for my 2 p.m. dress rehearsal for the Bartók that would
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MAVI – the shorthand moniker for the Max Aronoff Viola Institute – the string camp that I helped co-found 20 years ago with University of Puget Sound viola professor Joyce Ramée – is starting this coming Sunday up at Bastyr University, so it’s time for the pre-festival rehearsing to begin as well. Today was the
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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! Photo: © Charles Noble
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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
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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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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
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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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