How to Practice Smart: a technique class for advanced violin students
Taught by Melody Brock
This class is offered separately from our Summer Institute courses and is for advanced and intermediate students looking to refine their practice methodology.
Topics to be covered are:
*How to develop a technique routine for both Right Hand & Left Hand
*Posture-- tricks to getting a beautiful tone easily
*Making a practice grid
*Intonation - how to master it
*Vibrato - how to control vibrato, and the use of different speeds/widths
These skills are applicable to intermediate through very advanced students.
To enroll, you will need to be a participant in our Summer Institute, although you may do so as a part-time student. If you wish to enroll in this class only, under the Part Time Student heading on the registration form, select Violin Technique Elective.
About Melody Brock:
At 8 yrs old, Melody Brock studied in the Pasadena (CA) Suzuki Violin program. When she was 11, she went with the Pasadena tour group to Matsumoto, Japan and studied with Dr. Suzuki.
In junior high and high school, Melody Brock studied with Alice Schoenfeld (USC), a Berlin prodigy who studied with Klingler (Dr. Suzuki's teacher).
After getting an undergraduate degree in Math, she won a full scholarship to the U of Cincinnati College-Conservatory and went on to earn a Masters Degree from Juilliard with Dorothy DeLay. Dorothy DeLay was one of the top teachers in 70's, 80's, and 90's, teaching Itzhak Perlman, Midori, Sarah Chang, Chio Lang Lin (Jimmy) and many other concert artists.
Much of what Mrs. Brock will be teaching in her class will be take from Miss Delay's technique system and Miss Schoenfeld 's bow hand technique.
Topics to be covered are:
*How to develop a technique routine for both Right Hand & Left Hand
*Posture-- tricks to getting a beautiful tone easily
*Making a practice grid
*Intonation - how to master it
*Vibrato - how to control vibrato, and the use of different speeds/widths
These skills are applicable to intermediate through very advanced students.
To enroll, you will need to be a participant in our Summer Institute, although you may do so as a part-time student. If you wish to enroll in this class only, under the Part Time Student heading on the registration form, select Violin Technique Elective.
About Melody Brock:
At 8 yrs old, Melody Brock studied in the Pasadena (CA) Suzuki Violin program. When she was 11, she went with the Pasadena tour group to Matsumoto, Japan and studied with Dr. Suzuki.
In junior high and high school, Melody Brock studied with Alice Schoenfeld (USC), a Berlin prodigy who studied with Klingler (Dr. Suzuki's teacher).
After getting an undergraduate degree in Math, she won a full scholarship to the U of Cincinnati College-Conservatory and went on to earn a Masters Degree from Juilliard with Dorothy DeLay. Dorothy DeLay was one of the top teachers in 70's, 80's, and 90's, teaching Itzhak Perlman, Midori, Sarah Chang, Chio Lang Lin (Jimmy) and many other concert artists.
Much of what Mrs. Brock will be teaching in her class will be take from Miss Delay's technique system and Miss Schoenfeld 's bow hand technique.