Nathan Cole Interviewed About Online Violin Lessons
Fri, 06/21/2013 - 3:50pm
Nathan Cole was recently interviewed by Violinist.com about his online violin lessons here at the ArtistWorks Classical Campus. He also talks about how he got started learning how to play violin using the Suzuki method (at age 4!), his first violin audition, playing with the LA Philharmonic, and a whole lot more! Check it out here!
Updated Violin Lessons Include Top View
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 4:17pm
Topics: nathan cole, violin
By request, we have uploaded new "Top View" versions of ALL the performance videos in the violin lessons. They are attached as an additional video option for all lessons in the following sections: Beginning Etudes, Intermediate Etudes, Orchestral Excerpts, Solo Repertoire, and Concertmaster Solos. Let us know how you like the view from the top!
Nathan Cole Interviews Midori
Fri, 03/01/2013 - 5:59pm
Here's an interview Nathan recently did with the legendary Japanese violinist Midori:
I've been a huge Midori fan ever since I heard her "Live at Carnegie Hall" album (in the family car!) when I was 13. I didn't meet her until 1999, when we were both at the Marlboro Music Festival and she asked me to move my lunch tray so that she could wipe down my table (everyone takes turns on cleanup crew there)! Since then, she has soloed with every orchestra I've been a member of: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. And now we're practically neighbors since we both live in LA! She's one of the very few to make the incredibly difficult transition from superstar as a pre-teen to major musical force as an adult. Her dedication to teaching shows in every city she visits, as she makes time for students and fans everywhere. She's also the Heifetz Chair in Music at USC, where she hands down her lifetime of concert experience. She agreed to talk to me for a while at Disney Hall during her week performing a brand new violin concerto, written for her by Péter Eötvös. - Nathan Cole
To watch Nathan's interview with Midori check out the +Music section, or just click here!
What Makes for Effective Violin Lessons
Fri, 01/18/2013 - 12:08pm
Violin lessons: the phrase conjures up dreary black-and-white images of young boys, violin cases in hand, dressed in thick wool suits. They’re being bundled off to visit a stern maestro who might as well be a doctor! And isn’t that what violin lessons are? A series of check-ups? If you’re pronounced healthy after enough of these sessions, you emerge as a better violinist!
I haven’t known very many violinists who kept playing after lessons like that. A great violin teacher should be like a personal trainer, and the lessons should be like sessions at the best-equipped health club. There are shiny machines filling every corner of the main room, with smaller rooms adjoining. Each of these smaller rooms has specialty equipment to work various parts of the body. And the trainer knows the ins and outs of all this equipment.
Violin lessons: the phrase conjures up dreary black-and-white images of young boys, violin cases in hand, dressed in thick wool suits. They’re being bundled off to visit a stern maestro who might as well be a doctor! And isn’t that what violin lessons are? A series of check-ups? If you’re pronounced healthy after enough of these sessions, you emerge as a better violinist!
I haven’t known very many violinists who kept playing after lessons like that. A great violin teacher should be like a personal trainer, and the lessons should be like sessions at the best-equipped health club. There are shiny machines filling every corner of the main room, with smaller rooms adjoining. Each of these smaller rooms has specialty equipment to work various parts of the body. And the trainer knows the ins and outs of all this equipment.
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