Art of Freedom, career advice, concentration, direction, education, focus, improvement, music teachers, practicing, self-control, success, thinking, Uncategorized

Without THIS… you’ll never achieve effortless mastery and fulfill your artistic potential.

Do you ever feel like something essential is missing from your technique, but you ...

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awareness, ease, end-gaining, inspiration, open, performance, thinking, union

Great Performers DON’T Concentrate?!!?

When it comes to concentration, we’ve got it all wrong. The great performers know ...

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emotions, freedom, inspiration, non-doing, phrasing, self-control, sound, technique, tension, thinking, Uncategorized

Expressing Musical Emotion without Tension?

From Idea to Expression I taught an online masterclass for violinists and violists last ...

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Alexander Technique, challenge, change, direction, discipline, fear, habit, self-control, thinking, Uncategorized, violin

Practicing Don Juan with Alexander Technique and My Inner Critic!

I’ve been doing a lot of deep work with myself, my violin, and the ...

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Alexander Technique, anxiety, Art of Freedom, auditions, awareness, beliefs, emotions, fear, performance anxiety, reactions, thinking

Transforming My Negative Thoughts on Taking an Audition

I worked on the cadenza of the Tschaikovsky concerto today. The hardest thing about ...

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Alexander Technique, anxiety, awareness, balance, posture, thinking, Uncategorized

No More High Heels For Me!!

I’m writing this during the intermission of a concert I’m playing with Apollo’s Fire, ...

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