'I feel so lucky to have grown up just down the road from the legendary Josef Gingold. When he took me on as a twelve-yearold, I’d never know quite what to expect during our violin lessons. Besides offering practical and musical advice, and demonstrating his ‘old-world’ sense of sound and style on his Stradivari, he would also mesmerise me with stories of his encounters with Ysaÿe, Toscanini and Kreisler. Sometimes he’d take out a Beethoven string quartet for me to sightread while he filled in the other three parts by memory, or he’d take me down the hall to meet Menahem Pressler or János Starker and get their perspective on a particular musical idea. How inspiring!
Before Gingold, I had two other very formative teachers. The first, Donna Bricht, taught me how to love the violin. She became very excited at how quickly I learnt and allowed me to push my limits while feeding my curiosity. Eventually my parents realised that I needed a fresh approach and sought out Mimi Zweig, who was beginning to gain a wonderful reputation as a teacher of children. With Mimi I spent two years on Kreutzer’s Etude no.2! She guided me away from some of my bad physical habits and worked on fundamentals – exactly what I needed at that time. After four years she was savvy enough to recognise the appropriate time for me to move to a new teacher and she coordinated my transition, sitting in on my lessons with Gingold for an entire year.
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