Former student, Meriel Bizri, 17, and her masterful teacher, Lynn Chang, and coach/godfather Bruce Coppock, after Meriel’s performance of the first movement of the Sibelius Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. According to conductor Thom Wilkins, she “knocked it out of the park.” We are walking on air!
We’re beyond thrilled that our Meriel Bizri won the 2019 Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition! She will play the first movement of the Sibelius Concerto at Symphony Hall with the BSO on Thursday, March 28 at 10 am. You can also hear her as a winner of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition on Sunday, May 12 at 3 pm in Sanders Theater.
More bragging, everyone! Remember little Meriel Bizri? She’s in the finals at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition. OH, AND….she’ll be performing the Sibelius Concerto first movement with the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra this May. Watch this space.
Congratulations to my former student, Rebecca Hall who won the Mankato Symphony Young Artist Competition! 13 year old Rebecca will be performing the last movement of the Bruch Concerto later this month.We’re thrilled for you!
And then there is our Nygel Witherspoon who took our breath away:
17-year-old cellist Nygel Witherspoon has been awarded 1st prize in the Junior Division of the 2019 22nd Annual Sphinx Competition
17-year-old American cellist Nygel Witherspoon has just minutes ago been awarded 1st prize in the Junior Division of the 2019 22nd Annual Sphinx Competition – in Detroit, United States.
A student of Tanya Remenikova at the Minnesota Connections Academy, Nygel will receive US $10,000 plus a number of performance opportunities – including a nationally-broadcast radio appearance on From the Top.
Open to American Black and Latino junior high and high school students, the Sphinx Competition is aimed at the encouragement, development and recognition of classical music talent in the Black and Latino communities.
I had the pleasure of giving a class to the students of Mariesther and Marielisa Alvarez at the Boston String Academy the other evening. What wonderful students- a tribute to the seriousness and skills of their teachers!
Students, I hope you’ll attend and take advantage of this terrific opportunity!
Haiku for the Aspiring Violin Teacher-Artist
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Peer through a new lens.
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labs with beginners-
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Violin lessons in Cambridge specializing in beginners through pre-college.
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My fabulous summer class. It was an unforgettable month, kids. Thank you.
for both of us.
Bruce and I will join the faculty of the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Boston beginning September 2018. Bruce will be coaching chamber music and teaching a course on the Beethoven string quartets, and I will be teaching a pedagogy lab. We are both very excited!
While you’re here, check out the new page, my Partial Music Library, which I’ve just begun digitizing, and which isn’t yet sorted. Only violin parts are included, with my preferred fingerings and bowings. No more excuses that the dog ate your music!
For the second year Bruce and I hosted a week long residency at our house for a wonderful young string quartet that Bruce has been coaching weekly for the past two semesters. This culminated in the program attached, and will be repeated in part tomorrow morning, Saturday, April 7, for Ben Zander’s master class at the Boston Public Library at Copley Square/Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston St., 02116 Read more about Quartet Lab 2018 it at the end of the program below.
May Violin Class 
