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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for all the suggestions! Besides AMy beth, could you please suggest other highly respected violinists who teaches students in NSO?[/quote]

Our experience in having a teacher with a major orchestra vs a career teacher (pedagogue) could not be more night/day.  The teachers who have a full-time performance job (ie, NSO), their focus is on the full time job playing in the orchestra.  Teaching students on the occasional evening and weekend hours provides supplemental income for them, but they are not necessarily TRAINED to be a teacher/pedagogue.  I have found that while they are amazing in their day jobs (and they must be to have landed those orchestra seats!), they lack the skill and the ability to distill or communicate effectively to a student how to do certain techniques or musical concepts in a way that is easy for a student to understand.

I think this difference can be somewhat similar to when you're in college and have a certain professor who has published so much and is a leader in their field, in their research... but yet, as a teacher, they are not very effective.  Conversely, there can be violin teachers out there who are amazing at helping the student understand musical concepts, techniques, but the teacher may have never had these fancy day jobs.  But that's OK because everyone has different talents.

A teacher we had (career teacher), once told me, the biggest challenge I have in teaching students and what I spend the most time thinking about, is -- "how I can I effectively explain this concept to my student in a way that they will understand and never forget."  Maybe I'm wrong, but my personal experience has been that the teachers who play in the big orchestras, don't really agonize over pedagogy in the same way.  [/quote]

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