Category: Cello Video Tutorials by Susan Moses

No. 3: How to Practice

Gabriel Martins, seven years later...
Ginastera Pampeana

Gabriel Martins, 10
Sonata in G Major, Sammartini (Berteau)

Susan explains how to put a piece together. Practicing is a matter of repetitions and understanding that difficulties occur between two notes.
The emphasis in this lesson is the practicing of intonation. The teacher needs to know the high points of a piece and to show the student how it feels and sounds. When the student arrives at these moments in a piece they are well prepared.

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Susan Moses is Co-Director of the String Academy and has been leading the cello department of the Indiana University String Academy since 1996. Ms. Moses earned her degrees with the highest honors at Indiana and Yale Universities before completing her studies at the Jascha Heifetz-Gregor Piatigorsky Master Classes at the University of Southern California. She was awarded a Ford Foundation Prize and has performed throughout the world in recital, with orchestra and as the solo violoncellist of the celebrated I SOLISTI VENETI. She has taught for Boston University and the Conservatoires Regionales de France and founded the Chicago String Trio, which was awarded a special Prize by the University of Milan for outstanding contributions in chamber music. In addition, she has been on the Oberlin College faculty. She records for ERATO and CONCERTO and was nominated for a Grand Prix du Disque. Ms. Moses was recognized by the University of Padua for her outstanding research on the school of Giuseppe Tartini in the 1700s. She also created a special music program for Trinity College’s Italian Elderhostel, where she is principal lecturer and performer. Her students are performing and teaching throughout the world. In January 2015, Susan Moses was awarded the Outstanding String Teacher of the Year Award by the Indiana American String Teachers Association.

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