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Bow Pressure Techniques

Dr. Cheri Collins has added another tone production exercise – and this time with the help of Professor Simon Fischer. Get better tone now!
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Interview with Jenna Baumgart, Part 3

The final installment of our interview with Jenna Baumgart! She’s back to share some more ideas with other performers on how to prevent injuries and offer her ideas for the future.
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Interview with Michael Tree, Part III

In the final installment of our interview with violist Michael Tree, Mr. Tree shares with us some of his concepts about practicing.
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Interview with Jenna Baumgart, Part 2

In Part 2 we hear from Jenna Baumgart about the research she conducted for her Master’s thesis. She offers advice to other music instructors on how to prevent injuries in their students.
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Interview with Michael Tree, Part II

In the continuation of our interview with violist Michael Tree he tells us how he became a violist, the start of the Guarneri Quartet, and some fascinating stories about The Guarneri and Artur Rubinstein recording project.
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Interview with Jenna Baumgart, Part 1

Brianna Richardson interviews Jenna Baumgart MA, who is an expert in the fields of musicians’ health and injury prevention. In the first of three parts she shares how she first got interested in these topics.
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Interview with Michael Tree, Part I

Hans Jørgen Jensen interviewed violist Michael Tree at the Young Artist Program in Ottawa, Canada on June 17, 2011. The interview will be published in three parts. In part I, Michael Tree talks about his early memories of violin study with his father Samuel Applebaum.
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Contact Point Techniques

Cheri Collins offers an excellent series of exercises based off her article on the Schelleng Diagram!
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The Schelleng Diagram

What is the Schelleng Diagram? Find out, and see how it can help you play with better tone!
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The Power of Not Sleeping?

The Power of Not Sleeping? Sleep has a tremendous impact on our physical and mental health. No sleep may have an even greater inverse effect.
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