Nathan Cole - violin
There is method to the mastery
Ask any violinist about the first time they got "the shakes" in a performance, and they'll respond with the name of the piece: the Schubert Fantasie. Shostakovich 8th quartet. Mendelssohn …
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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 …
300 violinists started my Challenge. What did it really take to make it to the finish line? To read my original post introducing the New York Philharmonic Audition Challenge, click here. Preparing for …
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This Challenge ran during the summer of 2015, but can still be followed at your own pace for any audition! On November 12, the New York Philharmonic will hold the final round of auditions for its …
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