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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, yes, ABH has historically drawn from other people's studios, but this kind of thing is not at all uncommon in most cities with serious violinists. Violin teachers often have four distinct levels of specialty -- teaching beginners, teaching intermediate students (which requires the ability to teach technique in a very precise way), teaching advanced students (the high end of technique plus some degree of artistry), and teaching artists (players with fairly "finished" technique who in need of some level of artistic refinement, usually.

It is relatively unusual for teachers to take students as beginners and continue to teach them all the way through their advanced years. It does happen, and there are some teachers who have that approach, but the more common situation is that students switch teachers after their beginning years or after their intermediate years. It's also fairly common for students to switch when their ambitions change -- for instance, when they start becoming serious about competitions or when they become interested in pursuing a professional career.

Music teaching is a business. If you feel you can get what you want from another business, you will switch where you patronize. It is perfectly healthy for students to switch teachers. It can sometimes be frowned upon to aggressively solicit students from other studios, but ABH's previous policy of open auditions for her studio is perfectly reasonable. Students are unlikely to switch unless they feel they're getting something from the new teacher that they weren't getting from the previous teacher. It's not considered unethical, nor is it a negative mark or indication of a lack of skill if a teacher chooses to take competition-ready students rather than developing them from scratch. (Indeed, at the college level, [i]everyone[/i] is taking students who were developed by someone else.)[/quote]

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