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[quote=Anonymous]Ronda Cole's studio policies are not unreasonable; they are common for teachers who intelligently run their studios like a business and want their incomes not to be subject to the unpredictable whims of students. You are reserving a place in the studio with your fees; you are not paying for the specific lesson. The group lesson represents a time investment for the teacher, and sometimes rental fees for a place big enough to hold the group. You pay for your kid's private school even for the week that you take off for Grandma's funeral or whatever, after all.

Teaching and playing ability are largely uncorrelated, assuming that the teacher is teaching students at a level appropriate to their own personal technical capabilities. Formal training in pedagogy often doesn't yield amazing teachers, either.

People who studied with amazing teachers are, however, more likely to be amazing teachers themselves, if they are willing to   pass on all the knacks that they learned.

Of the NSO players, not all of them are great teachers, and even of the ones who are, they generally don't have big studios (the orchestra keeps them quite busy). Ricardo Cyncynates, the NSO's assistant  concertmaster, has, of the violinists, the strongest reputation as a teacher.

(I have had several violin teachers who were playing in professional symphonies, including in world-class ("top 5" global) orchestras. I have also had the privilege of experiencing the teaching of world-class soloists as well as soloists on a modest scale -- people who don't play hundreds of concerts a year, but do routinely play concertos with orchestra. I have played professionally myself, but am now in another career.)[/quote]

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