[Violin music]
[Nicholas Goluses] In this violin program, we've got about as wide of range of faculty as you can possibly have.
[Renee Jolles] "So can you pick the important notes in this section and make sure that no
matter where you are that there's time to make them sing."
[Nicholas Goluses] It's customized teaching. So in their lessons they're learning how they
personally can become the best possible performer on their instrument.
[Bin Huang] I always think that an instrument as difficult as the violin is, if you don't
have the basics, you really cannot begin to talk about making beautiful music.
[Abigail Tsai] Your studio teacher is very honest with you.
He knows how to encourage you. He knows how to push you.
He knows how to motivate you and along with that obviously has a lot of knowledge that
he passes on to you.
[Oleh Krysa] I think it is the goal is to create an artist.
I'm not only teaching students, I am learning from them as well so that's both directions.
[Mikhail Kopelman] Our instrument, the violin, is closest to the human voice so I'm always looking
for student and trying to help him to really find his own voice.
[music]
[Nicholas Goluses] Once a week there's a weekly studio class.
It's kind of like a master class. Sometimes
it's just a performance class. It gives people an opportunity to try things out in front of their peers.
[music]
[Federico Agostini] My teaching philosophy involves trying to enhance the innate qualities of the student.
I think that this is wonderful opportunity for all the students to, to become not only
brilliant performers but more complete musicians.
[Petros Karapetyan] I think for a musician or for any artist you get nervous sometimes
when you're about to play for a big audience or big, you know, audition and the rep class is amazing.
That experience helps you a lot to be more confident.
[Juliana Athayde] My goal is not to make a bunch of people that sound like me or sound
the same but I want to bring out the best version of those students.
[Ji-Yeon Lee] You're learning from each other just from not only their verbal comments, but
also hearing them play and seeing how they would interpret a specific type of music.
[music]
[Nicholas Goluses] Chamber music is the opportunity to apply that in a larger set so anything
that's kind of moving from micro to macro as we do this finally with orchestra.
[orchestral music]
[Robin Scott] I think our job as performers, as interpreters particularly, is to bring out
the things that are hidden in the music.
Maybe the most important thing though is that they know how to draw inspiration from a score.
[Ryan Cheng] I think what has made the greatest impression on me is how well the professors here
understand the emotions and the passion behind the music.
They love what they do and you hear by the way they talk about it.
Music is truly something that's emotional and something you have to connect with in
order to play well.
[Stephanie Bonk] It's a vigorous education that you receive at this school but no one
treats music here as if it's a competition.
Everyone treats it as a true art form.
[Renee Jolles] I love the community here. I
love the support of the faculty for all students and we all look out for each other
and the students' best interest. And most of all I really love my students.
That's what makes me come back everyday.