Web Resources

String Skills Website, by Gabe Vallasurda

Scales, etudes, shifting exercises for all bowed orchestral stringed instruments. FREE, first-rate materials by Gabe Vallasurda.

Bergonzi’s Searchable Data Base of Teaching Strategies

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The String Pedagogy Notebook by Mike Hopkins

Dr. Mike Hopkins, Faculty, Music Education (Instrumental: Strings), the University of Michigan. Information and resources regarding left hand technique, right hand technique, aural skills, and teaching process.

Music Publishers Association of the United States’ Copyright Resource Center

Mimi Zweig’s Violin Pedagogy Site

Journal of String Research

Making Charts for Stage Layouts

This is a simple browser-based tool that you can use to generate and print semicircular seating charts.

A publish.illinois.edu site