Ivan Galamian

We had all morning, you can imagine this with someone of his calibre.

He was really the Galamian of Europe.

He kind of reset the whole framework of being able to articulate and explain and account for everything about violin playing.

And So he would spend the entire morning lecture demonstrations about how he approached everything.

And I think there's been so many great... teachers that have taught, at least me, different, vastly different approaches to the instrument.

My main teacher, Donald McGinnis, was very much in the sort of violin camp of the Galamian school, which I don't want to get too much in the weeds, but like I would say 90% of people that play the violin or the viola have sort of a Galamian sort of And then I went to Karen Tuttle, who, Jim, your son probably knows.

She was like a viola goddess who revolutionized being comfortable with instrument by incorporating viola.

large muscle groups and learning how to relax into playing.