If you joined the Violympics this past summer, this Mazas is already an old friend! If not, you'll love exploring what seems at first to be a run-of-the-mill etude. It's all about hand frame on the …
Etude videos for Mazas and DeBeriot
Sometimes I think that the LA Phil should ditch our audition list and just use the one from Texas All-State Orchestra! Year after year, the required pieces and etudes to get into Texas All-State …
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The results of the 2019 Natesviolin.com survey
Well, I asked, and you gave it to me! More than 1,400 of you from around the world responded to my call for your feedback, and the results are fascinating. With this survey, I really wanted to get …
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Tired of losing practice battles? Wage a practice campaign
There’s an old brainteaser about a frog stuck at the bottom of a well. The well is thirty feet deep, but the poor frog can only jump five feet high. There’s good news: he sticks to the wall at the end …
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Out of shape and short on time? Lose the etudes, grab these excerpts
If you just want to download the guide, click here to scroll past the story... but I warn you, it's pretty good! Seconds before the chairman of the jury announced my name and program at the 1994 …
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Stacy LeSartre won my New York violin audition Challenge with an unexpected strategy
Week by week last fall, the number of violinists still remaining in my New York Philharmonic violin audition Challenge dwindled: sixty, thirty, twenty. By the time we got to the home stretch, the last …