teaching

 

I’m on faculty at the Mannes School of Music at New School University, teaching violin, chamber music, and performance seminars. I’m also available for private lessons. My teaching deals with string-playing technique (its traditions and schools as well as recent and current innovations), the Western classical repertoire, and a wide range of modern music (mid-20th-c to now). 

My violin students have been accepted to schools and festivals including the Manhattan School of Music, Indiana University, Peabody Institute, Cleveland Institute, Frost School of Music, Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Juilliard Pre-College, Lucerne Festival Academy, Bang on a Can Summer Music, and Decoda Festival.

I adapt my approach to each student, from the basics to the most advanced playing, and from the most familiar pieces of music to the new and just-created. My students range from graduate college students to children, professionals to amateurs. 

In 2023, I gave masterclasses at Princeton and Brown universities and the academy program of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. I’ve coached instrumentalists of Banff /ICE Ensemble Evolution and Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, and given masterclasses at Rice University, Williams College, Florida State, East Carolina University, Lawrence University, Peabody Prep, and the West Cork Festival in Ireland, among others. I’ve also done many workshops and seminars for composers.