inspiration Archives < SuperStrings Studio

2025-01-302025-02-08

Community and language in string teaching

We have a tremendous responsibility toward the community (besides providing the professionally-delivered solid basics and technical expertise) to be loving and caring toward our students' perceptions, experiences and needs.

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2022-06-092022-06-23

Strings and the pandemic in Suzhou

Being a strings teacher in China during the pandemic - playing and waiting and online teaching and we still aren't done

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2021-12-172022-01-13

Tone III

There is another aspect to tone that heavily influences and even overshadows the previous two essays. As a string teacher advocate, I will now focus on how we can nudge ourselves into becoming better teachers by becoming aware of the tone in our life. There is a way in which we go about our day-to-day …

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2021-07-282021-08-16

Tone – Part I

Tone: a massively important element of what we teach and learn in violin, viola, cello, and doublebass

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2020-06-132020-06-13

String teaching during COVID-19, June 2020

It's already the 13th day of June, 2020, in an undeniably extraordinary year. This year will probably be named 'hindsight', as in, "Hindsight is twenty-twenty." I don't know about you, but it's up and down like a roller coaster from my point of view. There is still plenty to be totally glad about and a …

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2019-05-052019-08-23

String Teacher Moves to Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

US String teacher and performer moves from Germany to China (again).

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2018-07-022021-02-25

Crossing Death Valley with My Violin

Have you ever done something that before you began, thought would be impossible, or at least highly unlikely? When I was a kid I thought, wouldn't it be cool to play in a major orchestra and to live by the sea. Then by the time I reached 30 years old I had done these things, …

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2018-03-262021-02-25

CONGRATULATIONS ON A SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE

Wow, it is hard to believe that our lovely student recital is already past, but I want to congratulate every single performer on their hard work and massive improvements. Thank you and your family for your effort and participation! If you would like to make a donation to the nonprofit organization who hosted us out …

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2018-03-012021-02-25

GET WITH THE JA

Sort out the "gah" and get with the "ja!" Wait, what? Get rid of the extraneous and keep on going with what's great, that's what that means. How could that possibly be relevant to us, as string-instrument teachers or learners? Well for me personally, it recently meant a commitment to solving something that last year …

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