Virtual Violin Festival
FACULTY
Shakeh received her early music training at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Music School in Armenia, a country at that time “behind the Iron Curtain.” After immigrating to the United States in 1979, she received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She studied with such string notables as Lori Ulanova, Haik Balian and John Kendall.
Since 1998 Shakeh has held the position of Principal 2nd Violinist of the Las Vegas Philharmonic and performs with the Philharmonic’s Principals Quartet, to present educational outreach and chamber music concerts in the community. She also plays regularly in orchestras supporting ballet and opera performances, as well as in recording sessions with jazz and pop musicians. She has performed with a vast array of classical artists and celebrity entertainers, including Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Boccelli, Placido Domingo, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Smokey Robinson, Itzhak Perlman and others on and off the Strip. Her solo performances include appearances with Henderson Symphony and Las Vegas Philharmonic.
Shakeh is an established master teacher and adjudicator. She has presented master classes and workshops in Arizona, Utah, California, Idaho, South Dakota, Alaska, Oregon, New York, Washington and Las Vegas Summer Music Festival. She was a featured presenter at the American String Teachers National Conference, and is a recipient of ASTA’s Studio Teacher Award in Nevada. She also is the Founder and Program Director of the Green Valley Chamber Music Festival (2006 to 2014). Her students have garnered top awards at numerous local and national competitions and have been chosen to participate in prestigious summer music festivals and camps, such as the Interlochen Summer Music Camp, Indiana University Summer String Program, Tanglewood Summer Institute, and National Orchestra Summer Institute. She is dedicated and passionate about working with young musicians and guiding their musical and artistic development. Many of her violin students have graduated from top universities and conservatories around the country. With her as a mentor, they have become accomplished professional musicians and, most importantly, beautiful human beings.
Principal of the Las Vegas Philharmonic,
Concert Artist, Master Teacher, Pedagogue;
Former Director of The Nevada School of the Arts (NSA);
Founder/Artstic Director of The String Connection & 2021 Virtual Violin Festival, Green Valley Chamber Music Festival,
MusicWorks Academy of Las Vegas
· Cleveland Institute of Music, Artist Diploma, with Honors, 1982 Studies with David Cerone
· Cleveland Chamber Music Seminar, 1980 Studies with Josef Gingold, Mischa Schneider, Guarneri Quartet
· Royal College of Music, London, ARCM Diploma, 1976
· Warsaw Conservatory of Music, Poland, 1973-74
· Szymanowski Liceum, Diploma, Warsaw, Poland, 1973
· Frederick Chopin Music School, Warsaw, Poland
After studies in his hometown with Bruno Polli, Baldini furthered his violin training in Geneva with Corrado Romano, in Salzburg and Berlin with Ruggiero Ricci, and recently studied conducting with Isaac Karabtchevsky and Frank Shipway.
From an early age, Baldini garnered prizes from countless international competitions, including the “Premier Prix de Virtuosité avec distinction” in Geneva, the “Forum Junger Künstler” in Vienna, and a dozen other solo and chamber music competitions.
Baldini has performed as soloist or recitalist across the globe, with five concert tours in Japan, two in the U.S., and one in Australia. He has performed in all the major European concert halls, in addition to those in Latin America and especially in Brazil, where he has made his home since 2005.
His inexhaustible curiosity and passion for music has broadened his horizons, and after a commendable career as violinist (with more than 15 recordings to his name, nearly 40 different violin concertos and all of the major violin sonatas in his repertoire), Baldini has embarked on new musical ventures as a conductor, he founded the OSESP Quartet (with section leaders of the orchestra of which he is concertmaster), he has intensified his teaching activities, and with the violin, has begun to explore the vast musical treasures of the Brazilian repertoire, much of which, unfortunately, remains unknown.
Baldini’s musical collaborations include countless internationally renowned artists, such as Maria-João Pires, Jean-Philippe Collard, Antonio Meneses, Fábio Zanon, Caio Pagano, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Ricardo Castro, Nicholas Angelich, among others. The late Maestro Claudio Abbado wrote in a letter to London’s “Harold Holt,” of Baldini: “I am impressed by both his deep musicality and technical level.”
He has been concertmaster of the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro “Guiseppe Verdi” di Trieste, and since 2005 has been concertmaster of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP), Brazil. He has also acted as guest concertmaster of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galícia, in Spain.
Baldini´s conducting highlights include concerts at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Teatro del Sodre in Montevideo, and appearances with the principal orchestras of Latin America. As of 2017, he is the musical director of the Orquesta de Cámara de Valdivia, in Chile, which begins a new chapter in his multifaceted career.
Emmanuele lives in São Paulo with his wife Veroni and daughter Lavinia.
Simón Gollo has appeared on countless stages across Europe, Asia, and the American continent from Canada to Chile. His long career has led him to perform at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Cadogan Hall (London), the 92nd Street Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall (New York), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Bolívar Hall (London), the Teatro Teresa Carreño (Caracas), the Auditorio Blas Galindo (Mexico City), the Auditorio Manuel de Falla (Granada), and the Teatro Mayor (Bogotá), and for renowned organizations such as the BBC Proms Festival, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. He has collaborated in these performances with international figures such as Alessio Bax, Ricardo Morales, Dmitri Berlinsky, Monique Duphil, Edicson Ruiz, Paul Rosenthal, John Novacek, Alissa Margulis, Jakob Koranyi, Miguel da Silva (Ysaÿe Quartet), Richard Young (Vermeer Quartet), Randolph Kelly, and the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, among many others.
As a soloist, Simón Gollo has performed the greatest violin concertos with prestigious orchestras such as the Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela, Filarmónica de Bogotá, Orquesta Sinfónica de Salta (Argentina), Central Ohio Symphony (USA), Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio (USA), and the Orquesta de Caxias do Sul (Brazil), under the baton of prominent conductors such as Conrad van Alphen, Theodore Kuchar, and Carlos Izcaray. He obtained the Fundación Cisneros 2012 scholarship to attend the Aspen Music Festival, where he took lessons from renowned professors Alex Kerr and Naoko Tanaka. He received his musical education in Switzerland under the tutelage of his mentors Anne Bauer, Gyula Stuller, Gabor Takacs and Patrick Genet.
From 2012 to 2019, Simón Gollo was a member of the Dalí String Quartet and La Catrina Quartet— ensembles specializing in Latin American music—participating in numerous successful tours and performances within and outside of the United States. His discography with La Catrina Quartet, which includes a Latin Grammy–nominated recording, is available on the RYCY Productions, Inc., and Summit Records labels. His passion for chamber orchestras led him to join the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York and to play leading roles in major festivals, tours, and concerts with other chamber orchestras such as the Camerata Nordica (Sweden), Post Classical Ensemble (Washington, DC), Dallas Chamber Symphony, and Classical Music Institute Chamber Orchestra (San Antonio). In January 2020 he was guest concertmaster for the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada under the baton of Michał Nesterowicz. Simón Gollo is currently a permanent member of the Reverón Piano Trio and guest first violinist of the Cuarteto Q-Arte, which tours, records, and performs throughout Colombia and Europe
Simón Gollo is a gifted and committed pedagogue who keeps a very busy schedule teaching both violin and chamber music. He has served on the faculty of the Summit Music Festival in New York and regularly collaborates as a substitute professor at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division (class of Naoko Tanaka). For six years, he served as a violin professor at the internationally recognized and acclaimed program El Sistema and at the Mozarteum de Caracas, both in Venezuela. He is now an assistant professor of violin at New Mexico State University (NMSU), and he joins the faculty roster at the California Orchestra Institute in 2020.
Appointed conductor of the New Mexico State University Philharmonic in 2016, Simón Gollo has experienced extraordinary growth in this facet of his career that has not gone unnoticed. He has received numerous invitations to conduct both youth and professional orchestras in the United States, Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela.
Simón Gollo is a recording artist for the international recording label IBS Classical.
Mr. Gronnier has appeared throughout the world in recitals, including his New York debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and his London debut at Wigmore Hall. As a soloist with orchestra and in chamber music ensembles, he has appeared at a number of the world’s most prestigious festivals including the “Festival of Two Worlds”, Spoleto (both in Italy and Charleston, South Carolina), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Mostlty Mozart at Lincoln Center (NY), Caramoor (NY), Casals Festival (Puerto Rico), and the Festival de San Miguel de Allende (Mexico), with such artists as Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Rina Dokshitsky, Gautier Capucon, Lukas Foss, Pepe Romero, Paula Robison, Eugenia Zukerman, Patrice Fontanarosa, Chantal Juillet, Carter Brey, among others.
Henry Gronnier was an Associate Professor of Violin and Director of Chamber Music at University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music (USC) until the Spring 2014. He is the chair of the string department and on the faculty at the Academy and Colburn School for the performing arts in Los Angeles, Bob Cole Conservatory at Calstate Long Beach and on the Advisory Board of the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theater.
The recipient of a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2020 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, violinist Alexi Kenney has been named "a talent to watch" by The New York Times, which also noted his "architect's eye for structure and space and a tone that ranges from the achingly fragile to full-bodied robustness.”
The 2019/20 season sees Alexi performing as soloist with the Sarasota Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Virginia Symphony, New Haven Symphony, Hawaii Symphony, and California Symphony, presenting a solo violin and electronics recital at the 92nd Street Y, and at the Phillips Collection and Rockefeller University, among others. In the 2018/19 season, Alexi returned to the Indianapolis Symphony, debuted with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and the Asheville, Omaha, Wheeling, and Bay Atlantic symphonies, and gave recitals at Wigmore Hall, Union College, Portland ‘Ovations,’ and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern festival. He has appeared as guest concertmaster of both the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Alexi has performed as soloist with the Detroit, Indianapolis, Columbus, Jacksonville, Santa Fe, Portland, California, and Amarillo symphonies, and in recital on Carnegie Hall’s ‘Distinctive Debuts’ series, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, at the Dame Myra Hess Concerts in Chicago, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Jordan Hall in Boston. He is winner of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild Competition and laureate of the 2012 Menuhin Competition. Alexi has been profiled by Musical America, Strings magazine and The New York Times, written for The Strad, and has been featured on Performance Today, WQXR-NY’s Young Artists Showcase, WFMT-Chicago, and NPR’s From the Top.
Chamber music continues to be a major focus of Alexi’s life, performing at festivals including Marlboro, Bridgehampton, ChamberFest Cleveland, Festival Napa Valley, Kronberg, the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove, Ravinia, and Yellow Barn. He is a member of The Bowers Program at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (formerly CMS 2).
Born in Palo Alto, California in 1994, Alexi is a graduate of the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he received his Artist Diploma and BM under the tutelage of Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried. Previous teachers include Wei He, Jenny Rudin, and Natasha Fong. He plays a violin made in London by Stefan-Peter Greiner in 2009.
Outside of music, Alexi enjoys hojicha, bauhaus interiors, baking for friends (his specialty is this lumberjack cake), and walking for miles on end in whichever city he finds himself, listening to podcasts and Bach on repeat.
Ilia Korol is an internationally acclaimed artist. A true specialist in Early Music, he is widely regarded as one of the best in his field. He has performed at the most important festivals in Europe, Asia, and the USA. He played with orchestras such as the Musica Antiqua Köln (Director: Reinhard Goebel), with which he toured the USA with concerts in venues like Carnegie Hall in New York, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Santa Barbara and Santa Monica. He has performed as concert-master and soloist with different orchestras: the Orchester Wiener Akademie (since October 2008), Baroque Orchestra Musica Angelica Los Angeles (since October 2010), The Bach Ensemble (Director: Joshua Rifkin) and the Spanish Baroque Orchestra RCOC from from Barcelona. He was also a member of the ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria and the Clemencic Consort.
In 2003, Ilia Korol and Julia Moretti founded the chamber orchestra moderntimes1800, which he conducted at the Ruhr-Triennale Festival (2005), the Salzburger Festspiele (2006), at the Theater an der Wien, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Rheingau Music Festival, at the Innsbruck Festwochen Festival, the Wiener Festwochen (2004), at the Festival De La Chaise Dieu and at the Händel Festspiele Halle. Over the years, famous conductors and soloists worked with moderntimes1800, including Juliane Banse, Florian Boesch, Max Emanuel Cencic, Karina Gauvin, Vivica Genaux, Reinhard Goebel, René Jacobs, Simone Kermes, Patricia Petibon, Christoph Prégardien and Julian Prégardien, Anna Prohaska, Daniel Reuss, Michael Schade, Daniel Taylor, Lawrence Zazzo and others.
Ilia Korol has led orchestras in Spain, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, USA and other countries. Numerous CD recordings attest his lively chamber music activities as well. His last CD publication includes the first recording of Johannes Brahms Violin Sonatas on historical instruments with Natalia Grigorieva (CD of the month and the year of 'music web international'). The world premiere recording of Violin Sonatas by George Onslow with Norbert Zeilberger was awarded a Diapason d'Or and was enthusiastically received by the press. The recording "Sinfonias from the Enlightenment" with moderntimes1800 was awarded a Diapason d'Or as well.
As a passionate teacher, Ilia Korol holds numerous master-classes at the Academy of Performing Arts in Vienna, at the Moscow Conservatory, at the Belgrade Music Academy, at the Gmunden Austria Baroque Academy, at the Innsbruck Festival, at UCLA and Los Angeles, amongst others. From 2008 to 2010 Ilia Korol was a lecturer in an early music education course at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, Innsbruck. Some of his students have become internationally renowned artists.
Ilia Korol has been living in Austria since 1997 (currently in Vienna) and acquired Austrian citizenship in 2001 for his musical achievements. His engagements for this 2018-2019 season include a concert with J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion (BWV 245) in Madrid as well as Dido and Aeneas in his native Ukraine.
Originally from New Jersey, Rhodes was born into a family with Japanese, American, Russian and Romanian roots. After studying at the Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory, she co-‐founded the Naumburg Award-‐winning ensemble Trio Cavatina, served as artist member
of the Boston Chamber Music Society and performed extensively with Music from Copland House, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Musicians from Marlboro.
Rhodes has a vision for commissioning and programming contemporary music: her partnerships with composers of today have resulted in over 100 premieres. As a member of the Takács Quartet, Rhodes has shaped the Graduate String Quartet Residency at the University of Colorado. At the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, Rhodes leads an intensive summer string quartet seminar with the Takács Quartet. When not traveling, Rhodes serves as Artistic Director of the Denver/Boulder branch of “If Music Be The Food…”, a concert series designed to build partnerships through music in order to raise awareness for food insecurity in local communities.
In recital and chamber music, Giora has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, San Francisco Performances, the Louvre Museum in Paris, and Tokyo's Musashino Cultural Hall. Festival appearances include the Ravinia Festival, the Santa Fe and Montreal Chamber Music Festivals, Bard Music Festival, Scotia Festival of Music and Music Academy of the West. He has collaborated with eminent musicians including Yefim Bronfman, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell, Ralph Kirshbaum and Michael Tree.
Born in Philadelphia to professional musicians from Israel, Giora began playing the violin at the age of four. A graduate of the Juilliard School, his teachers have included Geoffrey Michaels, Patinka Kopec, Dorothy DeLay and Itzhak Perlman; with additional guidance from Pinchas Zukerman. Committed to education and sharing his passion for music, Giora is currently Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music (CCM) and on the artist faculty at New York University (NYU Steinhardt.) He was previously on the faculty of the Juilliard School and the Perlman Music Program. Through technology and social media, he continues to find new ways of reaching young violinists and music lovers around the world.
He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, The Classical Recording Foundation's Samuel Sanders award, and was a Starling Fellow at the Juilliard School.
Giora plays a c. 1830 violin by Giuseppe Rocca and strings kindly sponsored by Thomastik-Infeld, Vienna.
Recognized for his inspiring work with promising young musicians, he held the position of violin professor at UCLA from 1977 to 1997, and he has given master classes around the world. He was appointed Music Director of the American Youth Symphony in 1998. As the successor to Mehli Mehta, he is only the second conductor to lead the ensemble since it was founded by Mehta in 1964. Prior to being named Music Director of the American Youth Symphony, Treger guest-conducted the orchestra in 1994 and 1996. An inspiring teacher who enjoys working with promising young musicians, he has given numerous master classes around the world and held the position of Professor of Violin at UCLA for two decades, from 1977 to 1997. Under his leadership, the American Youth Symphony has performed at Carnegie Hall and Walt Disney Disney Concert Hall, and received the hands-on support of world class musicians, including Yefim Branfman, Sarah Chang, Midori, Johannes Moser, Alan Silvestri, and John Williams. He has developed the orchestra into a first-class training ground for young musicians of the 21st century. Currently Music Director/Conductor at Crossroads School where Mr. Treger has developed a youth chamber orchestra of the highest caliber.
Alexandra was appointed Music Director of the Henderson Symphony Orchestra in 2016 and has elevated the arts scene of the Nevada Vegas Valley with her exciting, community-sensitive programing. Her creative collaborations between music and other art forms including culinary, dance, and visual art forms has brought new life to the Henderson arts community. Under Alexandra’s leadership, the Henderson Symphony Orchestra has become one of the few orchestras in the country that offers a free concert season in addition to a slate of energetic community youth outreach programs.
In 2015 Alexandra was invited to conduct the European Emmy Award-winning Night of the Proms. Due the overwhelming success, Alexandra was engaged as the Antwerp Philharmonic and NOTP’s principal conductor, and production company member. Alexandra collaborates regularly with pop music icons such as Bryan Ferry, Simple Minds, Al McKay (Earth Wind and Fire), The Pointer Sisters, Natasha Bedingfield, Chaka Kahn, Suzanne Vega, Roger Hodgson (Supertramp), Peter Cetera (Chicago), Alan Parsons and John Miles.
As a guest conductor Alexandra has appeared with some of the finest orchestras on three continents including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta, Classical Music Institute, the Sarasota Orchestra, OFUNAM (Mexico) and Mexico National Orchestra, Filarmed (Colombia), and the Orquestra Sinfonica de Porto Alegre (Brazil).
Recent collaborations include a series of recordings with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic featuring Brazilian Music arranged by Roeland Jacobs, including the album “Saudade”, winner of the 2020 Edison Prize in Netherlands, considered the Dutch Grammys.
Alexandra has also collaborated with and championed new works by some of the finest composers of our generation including Jennifer Higdon, Mason Bates, Clarice Assad, Kevin Putz, Anna Clyne, John Adams, James Macmillan, Michael Daugherty, John Corgliano, Christopher Rouse, and Jennifer Bellor.
Alexandra developed a Conducting Studio in Brazil in 2015 to address the lack of opportunity for conductors in her home country. This program was expanded into a highly successful international program in collaboration with the Henderson Symphony Orchestra in 2019.
Alexandra won the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship in 2011 and the Baltimore Symphony Conducting Fellowship in 2012. Alexandra subsequently served as a conducting assistant to Maestra Marin Alsop at the Baltimore Symphony, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Alexandra attended the most prestigious Music Festivals such as Aspen and Campos do Jordão, and was also mentored by Gustav Meier at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and Harold Farberman at the Bard Conservatory of Music.
Taras Krysa guest conducted orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, New World Symphony, Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony, Moscow Soloists, Slovak Sinfonietta, Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Orchestra, Kiev Chamber Orchestra, the Lublin Philharmonic Orchestra, Las Vegas Philharmonic and many others. In addition, Mr. Krysa led the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra and the Slovak Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra on several European and Asian tours.
Mr. Krysa recently concluded his ninth season as the Artistic and Music Director of the Henderson Symphony Orchestra in Nevada. Under his leadership, the ensemble has seen its audience expand ten-fold and its concerts recognized as a treasured part of the cultural life of the greater Las Vegas community.
Mr. Krysa actively promotes new music and has made three critically acclaimed recordings for the Brilliant Classics label.
An accomplished violinist, Taras Krysa was a member of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the New World Symphony Orchestra, and continues to maintain an active career performing chamber music.
Taras Krysa was born in Kiev into a dynasty of professional musicians. His father, Oleh Krysa, is a prominent concert violinist. His mother, Tatiana Tchekina, was as concert pianist, and his grandfather, Pavel Tchekin, was a tenor at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Mr. Krysa attended the Gnesin School of Music in Moscow before emigrating with his family to the United States 1989 where he continued his studies in conducting and violin at Indiana University and Northwestern University with Victor Yampolsky and Nelli Shkolnikova. Mr. Krysa was recipient of fellowship the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen Music Festival, where he studied with Jorma Panula and David Zinman.
In February 2019 he premiered Matthew Jackfert's Violin Concerto "A Black Bear Awakens in Winter" at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC with the Charleston Chamber Orchestra. He is a top prize winner at more than 25 national and international violin competitions in his native Romania and abroad including First Prize at the 2008 Kingsville International Competition, TX and the Grand Prize and First Prize at the 2000 “Remember Enescu” International Violin Competition, Romania.
He has built a significant career of recital, concerto, music festival and chamber music appearances in the US and Europe including the Music Celebrations International Festival at Carnegie Hall, New York City; the International Summer Academy Prag-Wien-Budapest in Austria; and the Kyoto International Music Students Festival in Japan, among others.The Murnauer Tagblatt in Germany praised his “wonderful virtuosity as well as perfect technique.”
Since 2013 he is a member of the Violin Society of America Oberlin Acoustics Workshop where he explores the physics of string instruments with fellow musicians, scientists and violin makers. Cristian holds a Bachelor's degree from the National Music University of Bucharest, a Master's and an Artist Diploma from Park University, MO where he studied with Ben Sayevich. His teachers and coaches include Gil Shaham, Stefan Gheorghiu, Eric Rosenblith, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Gabriel Croitoru and Vladimir Spivakov, to name a few.
Cristian is married to the pianist and jazz singer Victoria Martirosyan – Fatu and together they have three children Mark, Vivienne and Sophie who at only five years of age became the youngest contestant in the history of NBC’s America's Got Talent delivering memorable performances of Sinatra's top hits
After a three-year apprenticeship with Hans Weisshaar, Tom Metzler and David Rivinus opened a small shop in a second-floor walk-up in Glendale, California. In 1983 they moved the shop to its present location, and David Rivinus left the business shortly after to concentrate on instrument making.
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About Your Experience at the Virtual Violin Festival
If you’re an advanced high school or college level violin student preparing for a career in music or a path to college through advanced musical training, then you know how important summer learning is for your future. Making connections, learning repertoire to forging beautiful friendships.
We are faced with all the travel challenges and space management through COVID guidelines. Don’t be impacted by the limitations to slow down your growth and alter your future plans.
VVF is able to introduce you to future teachers, work through your audition repertoire and experience the camaraderie of a like-minded community of students.
Private teachers want to make sure their students are being exposed to other well-known pedagogues, connecting with their peers and getting inspiration by being surrounded by great artists in a festival setting.
Thanks to the internet connections and video streaming applications, we are able to bring international artists to your living room.
You will be able to:
• Work with an all-star faculty from around the world, in private lessons, and masterclass settings.
• Enjoy the attention of being part of an exclusive group.
• Work with the support of a close online community.
• Prepare for next year’s competitions and auditions.
• Learn and be coached on next year’s repertoire.
• Work with and connect with the great violinists.
• Give yourself a head start for college or grad school preparation.
• Spend your two weeks surrounded by inspiring artists and mentors.