7 Things to Be Consider Before Enrolling in a Music Academy
7 Things to Be Consider Before Enrolling in a Music Academy by Annika Wells ‘Music is the most life enrich academic subject.` Everyone loves and enjoys music, whether by singing, listening, or playing an instrument. Music is the most life enrich academic subject....
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Invisible Neck Graft – a Restorer of Violins, Violas and Cellos
A Restorer of Violins, Violas, and Cellos by Iris Carr Hello, I am Iris Carr, a restorer of fine violins, violas & cellos for over 25 years. In 1996 I graduated from the Newark School of Violinmaking with distinction and was offered a position at Charles Beare’s Shop...
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The Strange Link Between Chess and Music
The Strange Link Between Chess and Music by Abroo Murtaza ‘Is there a real connection between music and chess?` A question that often confuses people! Many research studies have been done to find an appropriate answer to it, and all have varying conclusions. Some...
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Piazzolla and Ginastera: two contrasting sides of Argentine Music
Piazzolla and Ginastera: two contrasting sides of Argentine Music by Guillermo Scarabino Maestro Guillermo Scarabino met Astor Piazzolla and Alberto Ginastera in person during his long-lasting conducting career. He premiered in Argentina Ginastera’s “Popol Vuh: The...
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Violin for Tango – Celebrating Piazzolla 100th!
Violin for Tango - Celebrating Piazzolla's 100th! by Gabriela Olcese Join our "Violin for Tango" Master Course For iClassical Academy, we created a special "Violin for Tango" Master Course. In this course, carried out entirely in Buenos Aires, we illustrate the basic...
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15 Steps to Soundproofing A Room
15 Steps to Soundproofing A Room by Annika Wells Whether it’s the squealing garbage trucks, blaring car stereos, or the general buzz of foot traffic outside your window, the noise of the city can be draining. and for getting rid of that, you want to have a soundproof...
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The Baroque Violin & Viola: a Fifty-Lesson Course
The Baroque Violin & Viola: a Fifty-Lesson Course by Walter Reiter The Baroque Violin & Viola: a Fifty-Lesson Course After more than half a century spent teaching and playing the violin, the last thirty of which have been devoted almost exclusively to the Baroque...
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6 Ways That Can Be A Big Help For Learning Music
6 Ways That Can Be A Big Help For Learning Music by Annika Wells Learning Music The science or art of arranging tones or sounds in progression, in the mix, and in fleeting connections to deliver a piece having solidarity and coherence is called "Music." Learning music...
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Embrace your Stage Fright
Embrace your Stage Fright, practice your performance! By Prof. Lihay Bendayan Head of the Violin Class, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Performance Anxiety Performance anxiety may seem like an undesired partner in our lives as musicians performing live on stage....
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RODOLPHE KREUTZER 42 VIOLIN ÉTUDES
RODOLPHE KREUTZER 42 VIOLIN ÉTUDES BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN CLASSICAL AND ROMANTIC VIOLIN REPERTOIRE by Marcos Santos Pedagogical value Kreutzer’s Études are extremely useful to violin teachers globally, as evidenced by the fact that they have been used in many parts...
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BEAUTIFUL SINGING: A Singer’s Guide to Improving the Voice
BEAUTIFUL SINGING: A Singer’s Guide to Improving the Voice by Stanford Felix MUSICAL BEGINNINGS I come from a musical family, particularly on my father’s side. All the Felix relations were Welsh, and Wales is famous as the “Land of Song,” especially for its male...
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Novena Sinfonía de Beethoven
Novena Sinfonía de Beethoven - Nicht diese Töne? por Guillermo Scarabino En el 4° movimiento de la 9ª Sinfonía, antes de abordar el texto de la Oda a la Alegría de Schiller, Beethoven insertó palabras de su propia autoría: O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! / Sondern laβt...
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Beethoven Ninth Symphony
Beethoven Ninth Symphony - Nicht diese Töne? by Guillermo Scarabino In the 4th movement of the 9th Symphony, before tackling the text of Schiller's Ode to Joy, Beethoven inserted words of his own authorship: O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! / Sondern laβt uns...
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Social Media for Musicians and Artists
Social Media for Musicians and Artists by Massimo Poti After a degree in Communication Science in a time so far away there were no blogs and no smartphones yet - yes, that was quite a long time ago! - I’ve always worked as a communications consultant specialising in...
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Feldenkrais and playing freely on the cello
Feldenkrais and playing freely on the cello by Nadia David I am Nadia David, cellist, teacher, musiMentor at IClassical Academy. I have been searching and writing about the One Movement idea for a long time. The urge to merge the complex web of thoughts, emotions...
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Conducting Brahms: an approach to the opening of the first symphony
Conducting Brahms: an approach to the opening of the first symphony By Gianmaria Griglio When young conductors approach a score for the first time the omnipresent question is: how do I begin? In a case of a repertoire symphony such as Brahms's first, the...
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Questions & Answers
Questions & Answers Everything you want to know about iClassical Academy Masterclasses Q. Why do you offer only Master Classes of violin, violoncello and piano? A. You will also find some trumpet lessons and we plan to add other instruments in the future. Q. Why do...
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Cello Masterclass Evangeline Benedetti Arona, Italy
Cello Masterclass Evangeline Benedetti in Arona, Italy Two Inspiring days with a great Master Teacher Evangeline Benedetti is a sought-after master clinician, specialized in Alexander Technique, who served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music. She...
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Daily routine of a musician
Daily routine of a musician with cellist and musiMentor Fulvia Mancini What is the interaction between the practice of the musical instrument and the techniques of yoga and visual and vocal techniques? How can it help you develop more confidence in your...
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Conducting technique; an introduction by Gianmaria Griglio
Conducting technique; an introduction and why it matters By GianMaria Griglio Does conducting technique exist? According to some, this is a debatable point: conducting technique (just for clarity, I’m referring to orchestral and not choral conducting) has been the...
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Why should I play J.S. Bach’s 2-part inventions? (Blog)
Why should I play J.S. Bach's 2-part inventions? Hello, I am Fernanda Machado and I am musiMentor Piano at iClassical Academy. My newborn course is all about J.S. Bach's 2-part invention No. 10, and I'd like to tell you more about the possibilities mastering these...
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Violin Bow – Color your Violin Sound by Bowing on Different Contact Points
Violin Bow - Color your Violin Sound by Bowing on Different Contact Points By Zlata Brouwer Bowing on another place on your string makes your violin sound different The beautiful thing about violin playing is that you can create variety in your tone....
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Harbin’s Conservatory and Orchestra; tradition and innovation
Harbin's Conservatory and the Orchestra placed in the City of Music Harbin Conservatory Of Music is a vast, bright and inviting building, located in Harbin, which is called “the city of music” by the United Nations. As the only independent establishing state-run...
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Harbin and Schoenfeld International String Competition; a City of Music to discover!
Harbin, City of Music and its Grand Theatre; a great place to discover! As a modern city, Harbin has barely more than 100 years of history. However, this young city has an affinity with music. Accompanied by music, Harbin has always been growing, developing and...
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Sibelius Academy and its online learning musical training
Sibelius Academy and its online learning musical training by Irma de Jong Sibelius Academy, the cornerstone of Finnish music, has long traditions. Established in 1882, the cradle of classical music education has added other genres to its palette: Jazz and Folk Music...
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Bach Violin Solo Sonatas and Partitas – Online Video Series by Miriam Fried
How to play better Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas The amazing thing about the Bach course is Professor Fried’s ability to organize the Sonatas and Partitas into categories that span all of the works. It is so helpful, for example, to watch a lecture on all...
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Zlata Brouwer on 24 Violin Bowing Techniques
24 Violin Bowing Techniques by Zlata Ihou-Brouwer, the founder of Violinlounge, Classical violinist, teacher and bowing technique expert "With the violin bow, you’re an artist painting with sound colors" In this article I explain 24 different bowing techniques for...
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How to write a classical musician bio
How to write a classical musician bio? by Irma de Jong A good biography is nothing more than making an appealing story out of your curriculum vitae. I know for many people, this stresses them out. It’s something they don’t like to do, wait until the very last second,...
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Theory and Practice of Conducting with Guillermo Scarabino
The Art of Conducting by Guillermo Scarabino How awareness of orchestra parts and conducting will improve your performing Guillermo Scarbino, a well-respected conductor, lecturer and author, has developed masterclasses and workshops for any musician to understand...
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Paganini Caprices Unlocked with Pavel Berman
Paganini Caprices, a devilish challenge for many violinists The 24 Caprices for Solo Violin were written in groups (six, six, and twelve) by Niccolò Paganini between 1802 and 1817. As we all know, they demand a lot of technique, velocity, accuracy, and precision from...
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CHOPIN ETUDE NO. 3, OP. 10
CHOPIN ETUDE NO. 3, OP. 10 CORNERSTONE LESSON CHOPIN Chopin was one of the few composers who considered the Etude as an original composition, not only a piece to develop concepts and technique, so he wrote his 24 etudes also to have the player enjoying the piece...
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Social Media – Everything for a Like
Social media? "It's a completely different world," says Boris Berezovsky by Irma de Jong How far do we allow social media to determine our lives, or, even taking over? In this article, we dive into the world of the likes, the ones that make a living out of Instagram,...
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ASLICO THE OLDEST EUROPEAN OPERA CONTEST
LA BELLA ITALIA AND ITS LYRICAL PATRIMONIUM ASLICO THE OLDEST OPERA CONTEST OF EUROPE Italy is known as the cradle of Opera and Lyrical singing. No wonder that its famous for hosting so many important and known singing contests. The history of the Eurovision Song...
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LISZT PRAELUDIUM NACH J.S. BACH, SCHLAFLOS!, EN REVE, BAGATELLE
LISZT PRAELUDIUM NACH J.S. BACH, SCHLAFLOS!, EN REVE, BAGATELLE CORNERSTONE LESSON LISZT An exhaustive masterclass about differences and similarities amongst four important Praeludium; some parts are interpreted in different ways and compared to each other. Master...
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SAINT-SAENS RONDO CAPRICCIOSO ONINE VIOLIN LESSON
SAINT SAENS RONDO CAPRICCIOSO ONLINE VIOLIN LESSON CORNERSTONE LESSON VIOLIN VIRTUOSO REPERTOIRE This composition is dedicated to the 18th-century violinist Pablo de Sarasate, and there's a very much audible Spanish influence in the flow of this romantic composition....
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POPPER HIGH SCHOOL OF CELLO PLAYING ETUDES 1 & 6
POPPER HIGH SCHOOL OF CELLO PLAYING ETUDES 1 & 6 CORNERSTONE LESSON CELLO SOLO REPERTOIRE A real cornerstone for every cellist, to be watched and learned with great attention. In these etudes, our teacher shows how to practice and master crucial elements like...
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Young Musicians Now Seek Learning Variety
More and more students are looking for a variety of musical learning resources outside of what private teachers can offer alone. How does this impact the future of online music learning?
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BACH VIOLIN PARTITA NO. 1 IN B MINOR, BWV 1002, ALLEMANDE
BACH PARTITA NO. 1 IN B MINOR, BWV 1002, ALLEMANDE CORNERSTONE LESSON BACH SOLO VIOLIN REPERTOIRE In his Partitas, Bach treats the traditional dance form with great liberty, accentuating virtuosity, melodic inventions, rhythm and beautiful counterpoint elaborations....
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musiXange: Free Musical Services
musiXange: Free Musical Services As a European organization that wants to teach the world classical music, we have to begin with content that is accessible by anyone, for free. This helps our members understand what iClassical Academy is and what we do. After all, our...
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BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATA NO. 23 APPASSIONATA
BEETHOVEN SONATA NO. 23, OP.57, APPASSIONATA CORNERSTONE LESSON BEETHOVEN The composer himself described this composition Appassionata as one of the best he ever wrote, and it is no doubt the most celebrated of Beethoven’s piano sonatas; the 1st movement, reporting...
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Why Paganini Is Popular At Violin Competitions
Niccolò Paganini was one of the most accomplished classical composers of the 19th century…but why was he so popular, and why do they choose his music at violin competitions?
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Why Online Music Lessons Are So Effective
Online music lessons are thought by some to be an extremely effective way to learn; this article explores why these compliment time-tested learning methods.
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ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO IN E MINOR, OP 35, 1ST MOV
ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO IN E MINOR, OP. 85, 1ST MOVEMENT (PART 1) CORNERSTONE LESSON ELGAR Amit Peled teaches about the attitude, technics and the critical points of the first movement of this very famous composition. Special topics are the use of the bow, the posture,...
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Modern versus Baroque Violin Bow
Miriam Fried is a violin Master Teacher, and in this article we explore the differences between the Baroque and modern violin bows.
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RAVEL TZIGANE
RAVEL TZIGANE CORNERSTONE LESSON RAVEL Professor Hagai Shaham explains the many topics of this genial composition, showing the parts which mostly express the typical Hungarian romantic style. He teaches how to achieve the proper expression of the piece, which is very...
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RACHMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN C MINOR, OP.18, 1ST MOV
RACHMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN C MINOR, OP.18, 1ST MOV CORNERSTONE LESSON RACHMANINOFF One of Rachmaninoff's most enduringly popular pieces is his Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18. This Masterclass and cornerstone lesson also contains most teachings about...
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MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO IN E MINOR, OP. 64, 1ST MOV
MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO IN E MINOR, OP. 64, 1ST MOV CORNERSTONE LESSON MENDELSSOHN One of the most frequently performed violin concertos, and also one of the most lyrical and flowing works of its type. The movement contains a variety of thematic expositions,...
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How to Practice Solos Like a Professional
If you want to be a master at your instrument, it takes perfect practice to make perfect.
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Why Classical Music Still Matters
Why Classical Music Still Matters In an age of music where songwriters publish questionable lyrical subjects, heavy four-on-the-floor kick drums and sub woofers can be heard in traffic three hundred meters away, and where music videos feed the...
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Uri Vardi Feldenkrais specialist: “My Teaching Philosophy”
"I believe that my principal role as a teacher is to help my students become aware of who they are and to help them grow. It is not to define their faults nor cure them. The driving force in this process is my curiosity in the unique makeup of each of my students. As...
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iClassical Academy – Transforming Music Instruction
The iClassical Academy is transforming Music Instruction through HD Video, Digital Interactivity, and Cutting-Edge Tools.
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