Historically informed performance is not about playing old music in a museum. It is a way of reading music – asking where a phrase comes from, what it wants, how its rhetorical structure shapes the bow arm. This article explains what HIP actually is, and why it tends to make everything you play more interesting.

Most people assume online violin lessons are a compromise. They are not. This article makes the case honestly – what works well, what takes adjustment, and why many of my students make faster progress online than they ever did in person.

If you trained classically, HIP ideas do not require you to start over - they give you another layer. This article explores how historical thinking about phrasing, articulation, and rhetoric makes modern violin playing feel more natural, less forced, and far more personal.

This is the article I point people to when they want to know what working together actually looks like. Not the biography, not the credentials – the real picture. What happens in a lesson, what I pay attention to, how I think about sound and setup and historically informed performance. And what you can honestly expect.

Chin-off violin playing is not a belief system – it is a skill. This article traces how violinists held the instrument before the chin rest existed, and shows how to explore that approach safely, without turning your setup into a new religion.

Your first online lesson with me is not an audition. It is a conversation about where you are, what the violin means to you right now, and what we might work on together. No minimum level, no preparation required – just your violin, an open ear, and whatever brought you here.