She has performed with Led Zeppelin, Ray Charles, George Benson, Luciano Pavarotti, and numerous other big names in music over her long career. A renowned violinist, she has performed with eleven orchestras across the U.S. and has taught at major universities. She has published 30 authoritative books and is an avid composer and has 14 more books that she’s in the process of writing. She has performed at Carnegie Hall and been featured in the New York Daily News.
“Violin has a reputation as a very hard instrument to teach, and basically I’ve researched it for 25 years or more. I’ve done major research on every single violin method out there and came up with the simplest things I could do for each method.”
“I made the students keep copious notes and they had to turn in a notebook at the end of the semester, so that when they went out five years later (and) they found themselves teaching violin or viola they would know exactly how to do it.”
“I undertook it to write a book system where all the beginning steps are actually in there that every teacher needs to teach to get a great violin student.”
“Before I release a book I have ten year olds and twelve year olds teach it and they have to teach each book for a whole year. If those children can teach a book and get a good product, a nice student playing, then I know I can release those books and anybody can do it.”
“The best computer operators are often the ten and twelve year olds, and so why couldn’t the field of violin have teachers who are ten and twelve year olds?”
“I hear a song I really like. I hear something I want to play. And then, I’ve got enough technology right now that I can figure out exactly how to do it.”
“If you have ideas, don’t put the idea on a shelf and sit there and say, ‘Well, I’m gonna do it someday,’ because that’s exactly what you’re gonna say five years later, ‘Gee, I’m gonna do it someday.’ But if you decide to do it, take the little steps, figure them out, and everyday get up and say, ‘I’m gonna do this much of it, this much of it,’ and the next thing you know you look back and you have it done and then you work on the next project.”
“Once you’re professional you’re not nervous. It’s just like, ‘Okay, there’s a job, I wanna do it, I’m excited about it.’ And so you get up in front of the orchestra and you have fun!”
“Once you’ve got the skills and the technology, it’s just a matter of having the inspiration.”
“My father-in-law was principal harp of the New York Philharmonic.”
“Concertino for String Trio and String Orchestra: Pastorale”
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