{"id":908,"date":"2008-04-02T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T14:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=908"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:51:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:51:23","slug":"continuing-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/02\/continuing-education\/","title":{"rendered":"continuing education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, thanks to the generosity of Chamber Music Northwest<\/a>, my string quartet [the Arnica Quartet<\/a>] got the opportunity to get a two-hour coaching with an internationally-renowned chamber musician – Steven Tenenbom<\/a> of the Orion Quartet<\/a> and Opus One<\/a> piano quartet.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a great experience for us to get some high-level feedback on our work up to this point on the Janacek String Quartet No. 2\u00c2\u00a0 ‘Intimate Letters’<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As a professional musician, it’s hard to keep one’s objectivity because one works in a vacuum most of the time.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike most vocalists, instrumentalists don’t often continue with private lessons or master classes much beyond their school years.\u00c2\u00a0 Life gets busy, one’s ego gets enlarged, and lessons don’t seem like a priority anymore.<\/p>\n

But the fact is, getting objective opinions of one’s playing from leaders in the field is vitally important to maintain artistic growth throughout one’s career.<\/p>\n

My former (and sometime current) teacher Roberto Diaz, now the president of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, took lessons with Louis Krasner even as he was in his second gig as a member of the Boston Symphony.<\/p>\n

In an interview I conducted with Diaz for The Strad<\/em> magazine back in 2003, he credited the time he spent taking these lessons with helping him to win prizes in the Naumberg and Munich competitions, and with drastically improving his playing – even though he was already a top violist in a major orchestra.<\/p>\n

For me, the chance to go back and take even just one lesson every year or so really gives my playing and morale a kick-start.\u00c2\u00a0 It reminds me of why I went into music, and what my goals for myself before life took over art.<\/p>\n

So, to make a long story short, we got our best wishes validated, our butts kicked just a little, and came out of the coaching with big smiles on our faces.<\/p>\n

Life is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, thanks to the generosity of Chamber Music Northwest, my string quartet [the Arnica Quartet] got the opportunity to get a two-hour coaching with an internationally-renowned chamber musician – Steven Tenenbom of the Orion Quartet and Opus One piano quartet.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a great experience for us to get some high-level feedback on our work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[733,769,3680],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-leos-janacek","tag-steve-tenenbom","tag-string-quartet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-eE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":820,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/01\/janacek-in-like-a-lion\/","url_meta":{"origin":908,"position":0},"title":"janacek, in like a lion","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"March arrived today, and it came in like its proverbial lion, with rain and hail squalls and gusting winds. We headed down to NW Portland to have our first rehearsal of Janacek's String Quartet No.2 \"Intimate Letters\" with the Arnica Quartet. What a piece the Janacek is! For those of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "appreciation"","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":880,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/27\/living-with-janacek\/","url_meta":{"origin":908,"position":1},"title":"living with janacek","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday my quartet (the Arnica Quartet) played an early Mozart quartet (the G major, K. 157) and the great second string quartet of Leos Janacek, subtitled Intimate Letters. The concert was on a series presented by the OHSU Foundation, and took place in the acoustically and visually lovely OHSU Auditorium\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "appreciation"","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8281,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/04\/playing-string-quartets\/","url_meta":{"origin":908,"position":2},"title":"playing string quartets","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I know that this will come off as a bit extreme, but I have to say, if you are a string player and you do not regularly indulge yourself in playing string quartets: you are a fool. You are missing out of the best of the best of music, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "chamber music"","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Arnica Quartet","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DSC_0360-300x199.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14429,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/31\/my-2016-in-music\/","url_meta":{"origin":908,"position":3},"title":"My 2016 in music.","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I enjoy reading the end-of- year performance lists. It reminds me of what I haven't yet done, what I wish I hadn't done, and what I really enjoyed having done. So, in that spirit, I present my far from exhaustive list of major musical events in my life from 2016.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "the orchestra world"","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"DSC_2372","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_2372.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_2372.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_2372.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_2372.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_2372.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_2372.jpg?resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5944,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/08\/calder-quartet-in-portland-residency\/","url_meta":{"origin":908,"position":4},"title":"calder quartet in portland residency","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Calder Quartet - lately of Los Angeles (by way of LA, NYC, and Berlin) - is doing a residency in Portland which will culminate in their performances for Portland Friends of Chamber Music on Monday, March 14th and Tuesday, March 15th (7:30 p.m. both nights) at Portland State University's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "chamber music"","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/CasSeated-400x265.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":271,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/10\/pacific-quartet-concert-impressions\/","url_meta":{"origin":908,"position":5},"title":"pacifica quartet concert impressions","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night I was able to attend the second of two concerts by the Pacifica Quartet at Portland State University's Lincoln Hall. It was a wonderful program (if a bit conservative) that showed what a wonderful young quartet the Pacifica has become. The program began with Mozart's \"Dissonant\" Quartet, Kv.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "the orchestra world"","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"pacifica.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/pacifica.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}