Strads, Del Gesus, and Nedelecs OH MY! - A Musical Soliloquy 11

Ilkhom Mukhiddinov - A Musical Soliloquy 16

Hosted by Steven Song and Zachary Brandon :)Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Ilkhom Musical Journey 13:00 Practicing in America 14:50 How We Met 27:00 Preparing Rite of Spring as Concertmaster 31:30 Practice Tip of the Week - Ilkhom 34:10 Life in Pittsburgh Symphony 43:00 Beta Blockers 48:10 Winning the Pittsburgh Symphony Audition 53:55 Manfred Honeck and Shostakovich 5 57:30 Soloing with Pittsburgh Symphony 58:45 Excerpt vs Solo Playing 1:05:13 Dreaming Big 1:11:32 Embracing Failures as a Part of Success 1:19:50 Recording Recommendation of the Week - Ilkhom

Strings - A Musical Soliloquy 15

Hosted by Steven Song and Zachary Brandon :) Timestamps: 0:00 Intro and Overview 0:52 Current Strings 6:25 Evah Pirazzi Green vs Gold 8:37 Dynamo Strings 10:14 Larsen Il Canone Strings 12:50 Rondo Violin Strings 14:30 Peter Infeld Violin Strings 23:42 Dominant Pro  25:35 Vision Strings 26:45 Vision Titanium Solo vs Vision Solo 29:58 TI Strings 30:58 Dominant Strings 35:00 Gut Strings - Pirastro Oliv and Passione 46:02 Obligato Strings 47:30 Helicore Strings 48:27 Alphayue Strings 51:15 Lenzner Goldbrakat E String 55:36 Pirastro Gold E String 59:07 Maintaining Strings 1:01:18 When to Change Strings 1:03:19 Buying Strings 1:05:53 Practice Tip of the Week - Steven 1:08:00 Recording Recommendation of the Week - Zach

Mozart - A Musical Soliloquy 14

Hosted by Steven Song and Zachary Brandon :) Timestamps: 0:00 Intro and Overview 0:43 What Makes Mozart So Hard 2:54 Intonation in Mozart 5:18 Articulation in Mozart 9:10 Mozart like an Orchestral Excerpt 11:05 String Crossings in Fast Passages 17:12 D String 20:23 Getting Tense in Mozart 23:34 Being Specific in Technique 33:20 Slow Movements in Mozart 40:00 Mozart 4 2nd Mvt Ending 42:38 Mozart as a Musical Genius 44:36 Leopold Mozart’s Treatise on Violin Playing 45:37 Wes Anderson and Mozart 50:23 Rules in Mozart 51:57 Joseph Haydn and Humour 55:25 Bela Bartok 58:14 Playing Mozart under Pressure 1:02:02 Sincerity in Mozart 1:04:10 Practice Tip of the Week - Zach 1:08:20 Recording Recommendation of the Week - Steven 1:11:27 Surprise Movie Recommendation - Zach

Bows - A Musical Soliloquy 13

Hosted by Steven Song and Zachary Brandon :) Timestamps: 0:00 Intro and Welcome 0:55 Steven’s Bow Journey 5:15 Pierre Simon 13:00 Zach’s Bow Journey 17:00 Sartory and Voirin 20:42 Charles Peccatte 21:50 Tourte Bow Story 24:54 Dominique Peccatte 25:47 François Tourte 28:40 Persoit and Kittle 30:54 Francois Peccatte 31:55 Nicolas Maire 36:18 Buying a Bow 46:40 What Makes a Great Bow 48:40 Light vs Heavy Bows 55:50 Practice Tip of the Week - Zach 1:03:43 Recording Recommendation of the Week - Steven

How to Interpret Music - A Musical Soliloquy 12

Hosted by Steven Song and Zachary Brandon :) Timestamps: 0:00 Intro and Overview 5:00 Big Picture vs Small Picture 15:00 Music as an Internal Experience 18:19 Saint Saens Havanaise 26:07 Detailed Work 31:00 Dividing Time Equally 33:20 Figuring Out Your Own Fingerings and Bowings 36:00 Having Different Ideas From Your Teacher 43:16 Combining Detailed Work and Big Picture 48:20 Performance Anxiety 55:20 Manifesting Expression to the Audience 1:00:20 Music Like an Actor 1:03:15 Practice Tip of the Week - Steven 1:06:29 Recording Recommendation of the Week - Zach