An Excerpt a Day with violinist Audrey Wright: Day 2, Schumann Scherzo

In this online video series, violinist Audrey Wright (Associate Concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony and Concertmaster of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra) shares practice tips and insights into working on an array of violin orchestral audition excerpts. For more information about Audrey, visit her website at www.audreywrightviolin.com or follow her Instagram account @audreysageviolin

[@Josefowiczfan]

Another great exercice for the open strings work (5:15) is to play the passage with open strings but at the same time play the left hand on the wood (on the side of the violin). This connects even more the two hands and you can focus on the string crossing, the Sound quality and so on.

[@Violinna]

Completely agree - it's a great step before adding left hand back in, as it gets the brain to process the string crossings more "realistically" - the way it would with all notes included.

[@clarepellerin]

Great tutorial, thank you!!!! This excerpt is tyrannical, but you have mastered it, thank you for sharing your approach 😊

[@vln0921]

This is such a informative video! Thank you very much. Sounds amazing!!

[@jorgelopez-pr6dr]

Wow,this is more effective as a solo piece than for the orchestra ( I have listened to all Schumann's symphonies).

[@saturnreturnz3]

Thank you so much for sharing! Beautifully played and informative ❤

[@zhenliu3599]

Learned a lot! Could you give a lesson for Schubert 2 excerpt when you have time? Thanks!

[@ruteleable]

Thank you, very helpful! Beautiful playing!

[@Emily_violin]

Thank you!!

[@chuckgviolin3538]

It's funny, as a professional musician, I always feel beholden to my own fingerings and bow stroke ideas. Then I think, wait a minute, you can DO that? lol Thank you so much for this tutorial! I'm preparing this (again) and a fresh perspective is completely refreshing.

[@mattk6182]

what kind of violin are you playing on? it has a great sound

[@KolodziejczykKuba]

I do not think it's because of instrument...

[@justusforviolin2719]

Haha, yeah she is a very good player. And a great violin can make a great player sound even better, but an excellent violin will not make a poor player sound good;)

[@andreafg5327]

Thanks!!

[@kevinye1041]

0:18 - 1:04

[@jaschenski]

I never understand why people in general don't take the chance to eg drop right down before the crescendo up the E string, to make it so much more dramatic, and generally elsewhere. Fabulous playing BTW 🙂