A musical journey…

Dear Music Lovers,

I’ve been thinking for quite a long time of sharing some of my general impressions on the violin technique, on the Art of Music or about my concert experiences and adventures in various cities. Music is crowning by its heavenly and universal language, bringing people and cultures together.

The privilege of expressing myself through music is a vocation in which every day is a new start. I believe artists always had an important responsibility. Throughout centuries, Arts have reflected and even influenced history, cultures and have built people’s minds, hearts and ability to see the world from a different and deeper perspective. Today, this responsibility is even greater considering a world in which we all live too fast, in which values, respect and the natural time needed to learn, to develop and to properly discover the innate resources that characterize any of us is not sufficiently taken care of. It took six years to Gustav Mahler to achieve his magistral Resurrection Symphony …

I’m frequently telling my students the virtues of patience in their own instrumental practice. The artistic (and human !) developments should be bottomless. Also, behind every authentic artist lives a great, cultivated, humble, respectful, loving and considerate person, eager to learn and to grow through life experience !

Sometimes, I can work on a single note of music, looking for that specific sound colour or expression I’m hearing in my head, for hours, days…years. The closer we get to our goals, the further away they often seem. It never ends…

Looking forward to sharing more about the magic that surrounds my instrument of predilection !

Laurence