PRACTICE FOR PERFORMANCE
My original edition of Practice for Performance for Cello, published by Mel Bay in 2002, met with great success and was favorably reviewed in The American String Teacher, The Instrumentalist, and Stringendo. It has been continually in use by student cellists, professional cellists and cello teachers for more than a decade. Mel Bay asked me if I could adapt Practice for Performance for the violin. Fortunately, my long-time colleague, June DeForest, was willing to write a book based on the principles of the original. She added many of her own exercises, and wrote about her experience as a student, a teacher, and a professional. Her bok is intended for use by violinists who teach, internediate to advanced violin students, and violinists who are planning to work as professional orchestral musicians.
She illustrates ways of using scales to develop and maintain technique, shows how to use scales to improve sound through bow control, and offers tools for practicing difficult passages. She draws on her experience from a long career as a member of the first violin section of the orchestras of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the American ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House.
She was also a founding member of the American Chamber Trio for 35 years. She joined the violin faculty of Valparaiso University in 1991 after serving as the Drushel Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music at the College of Wooster. Her book is targeted towards helping teenagers, young adults, and the teachers of teenagers and young adults navigate confidently through the sometimes turbulent waters of the musict they want to master.
- Daniel Morganstern
Get Practice for Performance
for Cello and/or Violin HERE