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

Hosted by Steven Song and Zachary Brandon :)

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

1:00 Steven’s Violin Journey

6:20 Steven’s Antoine Nedelec

11:28 Johannes Cuypers

21:00 Zach’s Violin Journey

30:55 Zach’s Antoine Nedelec

38:35 Carl Becker

45:30 Franz Kinberg

46:31 Joseph Curtin

49:41 Stradivarius

53:19 Guarneri del Gesu

57:00 Guadagnini

1:01:51 Amati

1:04:51 Practice Tip of the Week - Zach

1:09:42 Recording Recommendation of the Week - Steven

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro and Overview

1:00 Stage Fright

9:35 Nathan Cole Bow Shake Tip

14:00 Nervousness in Performance

15:10 Accepting your Worst Performance as your Level

19:35 The Confident Mind Book

23:35 Steven Posture Journey

27:00 Mathis Constantly Reinventing

31:31 Augustin Hadelich

34:10 Right Arm Position

37:57 Michael Cleveland Bluegrass Fiddler 

39:29 No Shoulder Rest

42:58 Violin as Singing and Breath

45:13 Donald Weilerstein

46:15 Fear and Anxiety in Performance

48:30 Art is Not Life Threatening

50:00 How to Embrace the Moment

53:13 Jaime Laredo Thunderstorm Story

54:34 Reframing Fear as Excitement

57:52 David Lynch Movie Recommendation

59:36 Mindset Before Going on Stage

1:00:29 Pre-Concert Routine

1:04:09 Will Stage Fright Go Away?

1:08:48 Communicating as Artists

1:10:06 Practice Tip of the Week - Steven

1:15:29 Recording Recommendation of the Week - Zach

Hosted by Steven Song and Zachary Brandon :)

Timestamps:0:00 Introduction and Overview

1:35 Geneva Competition

2:10 Confucius Competition

2:50 - Sejong Competition

8:38 Carnegie Hall Competition

10:44 Society of American Musicians (SAM) Competition

14:22 Local Concerto Competitions

17:02 DePaul Concerto Competition Story

20:10 Chicago Symphony Concerto Competition

22:49 Prokofiev 2 with Orchestra

25:40 Walgreens National Competition

28:00 Not Doing Well in Competitions

31:50 Winning Walgreens Competition

33:46 Stulberg Competition

37:46 Klein Competition

41:35 Fischoff National Chamber Competition

45:47 Dealing with Results

50:23 Facing Strong Competitors

53:35 Judging a Competition

58:15 Yes No System vs Point System

1:00:55 International Competitions

1:08:42 Practice Tip of the Week - Zach

1:15:53 Recording Recommendation of the Week - Steven

Hosted by Zachary Brandon and Steven Song :)

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction and Overview

1:20 Recording Bach Tips

3:20 Competition Prescreenings

6:33 Editing in Recordings

8:20 Video Quality

11:58 Audio Quality

13:18 Mic Placement

15:54 Playing For the Mic

17:50 Microphone Recommendations

21:10 Playing Softly in Recording

24:20 Arthur Grumiaux

25:39 Good Playing Translates to Good Recordings

29:25 Shanghai Isaac Stern Competition Recording

31:22 Bach Stylistic Choices

34:00 Recording Paganini

38:40 Recording Mozart

43:02 Michelangelo “David”

48:32 Fun in Mozart

50:08 Concertos and Showpieces

53:54 How Many Takes When Recording?

1:00:00 Mindset When Recording

1:10:20 Fear as the Enemy of Creativity

1:15:09 Being Grateful for our Journey1:19:15 Practice Tip of the Week - Zach

1:23:30 Recording Recommendation of the Week - Steven

Hosted by Steven Song and Zachary Brandon :)

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction and Overview

0:50 - Our First Memorable Performances

10:40: Zach’s Emotionally Intense Performances

13:14 - Being in Performance Mode

15:52 - Performing a Concerto with Orchestra

21:00 - Memorable Chamber Music Performances

24:00 - Clicking with Duo Partner

26:33 - How Steven and Zach Met and Playing Together

32:00 - Brahms Second Violin Sonata

36:54 - Memorable Performance We’ve Heard

41:19 - Yefim Bronfman Rachmaninov 3 Cleveland Orchestra

45:00 - Daniel Trifonov

49:23 - Midori Goto

51:15 - Why an Artist Must be True to Oneself

1:04:45 - Tai Murray, Mozart Piano Concerto

1:08:34 - Practice Tip of the Week

1:17:11 Recording Recommendation of the Week

Hosted by Steven Song and Zachary Brandon :)

Timestamps:

0:00 Welcome + Opening Banter

0:50 Why We Love the Violin

3:50 Choosing Violin Over Piano

11:15 First Encounters With the Instrument

15:57 The Violin, the Human Voice, and the Other String Instruments

24:00 What Makes the Violin So Special?

37:23 Why the Violin Becomes Part of You

39:25 Physics of the Violin 

50:23 Life Without the Violin

1:01:57 Practice Tip of the Week: Never Give Up

1:08:30 Recording Recommendation of the Week

Hosted by Zachary Brandon and Steven Song

Timestamps:

0:00 Overview

0:56 - Paganini 1 

4:00 - Paganini 24 Overview

12:58 - Theme

15:34 - Variation 1

20:14 - Variation 2

22:55 - Right Arm Position

34:09 - Variation 3

38:25 - No Vibrato

42:12 - Variation 3

42:39 - Variation 4

47:55 Variation 5

51:30 - Variation 6

53:54 - Variation 7 (pizzicato)

56:51 - Variation 8 (chords)

57:15 - Variation 9 (Slow)

57:38 - Finale 

58:58 - Practice Tip of the Week

1:03:02 - Recording Recommendation of the Week

Hosted by Zachary Brandon and Steven Song :)

Timestamps

0:00 Welcome and Intro

0:25 Aspen Music Festival and School

12:20 Cons of Aspen

24:12 - Sounding Point Academy

28:10 - Brian Lewis Young Artist Program

30:57 - Heifetz International Music Institute

35:11 - Meadowmount School of Music

41:55 - Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival

44:42 - Music Academy of the West

47:55 - Concertmaster

57:27 - Practice Tip of the Week

58:51 - Recording Recommendation of the Week:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a84oRQa7oQw&t=310s

Hosted by Zachary Brandon and Steven Song :)

0:00 Welcome and Overview

1:19 - Debussy Violin Sonata 

4:50 - Pablo Picasso La Vie

6:20 - Impressionist Movement

8:47 - Music as Painting

10:25 - Mark Rothko’s Color Fields

12:30 - Franck Violin Sonata 

19:20 - Jackson Pawlak

26:27 - Johann Sebastian Bach

31:58 - Bach Fugues

39:40 - Bach Partita No. 3 in E Major 

43:22 - Bach Sonata No. 2 Andante

46:02 - Mahler, Sibelius, and Nature

47:37 - Beethoven Sonata No. 4 vs 5

54:41 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1:02:18 - Wes Anderson

1:07:17 - Béla Bartók

1:11:32 - Practice Tip of the Week - Grouping Notes

1:13:43 - Recording Recommendation of the Week - Tibor Varga Mozart Rondo in C Major

⁠https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ns2-qMmJiQ⁠

Recording of Steven and Zach playing Beethoven Spring Sonata: 

⁠https://youtu.be/tSwvXFLGt_E?si=xTJorReFBGtHPXj1⁠