Jul 5, 2014Sheila Nelson and her work in Tower HamletsIn the 1980s, string pedagogue Sheila Nelson took her seminal teaching techniques to underprivileged schools in the London borough of...
Jun 30, 2014Kopelman Quartet offers lesson in chamber music playingI'm just back from Wigmore Hall, where I watched the Kopelman Quartet demonstrate chamber music playing at its best: exquisite...
Jun 26, 2014Arnold Steinhardt: ‘Don’t put your parents in hock to buy a violin’A couple of weeks ago I interviewed Arnold Steinhardt, leader of the Guarneri Quartet for 40 years, for the Cozio website. Steinhardt is...
Jun 14, 2014Lionel Tertis offers hair styling adviceI discovered My Viola and I, the autobiography of Lionel Tertis, in the library at Magic Mountain. It's a charming read with great...