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Congratulations to Anna Victoria for her Suzuki Violin Book 3 Graduation!

April 10, 2014 by Love Nurtured Music

Congratulations to Anna Victoria for her Suzuki Violin Book 3 Graduation. Anna Victoria is a very dedicated violin student and we’re so proud of her. Congratulations to her mother, Patricia, for helping her with daily home practice. Here she is smiling with her book certificate. Way to go, Anna Victoria!

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Strings at Brevard – Brevard Music Center

February 25, 2014 by Love Nurtured Music

STRINGS AT BREVARDFor seven weeks, 400 elite students participate in a rigorous program of instruction and performance. They work with our artist faculty, sixty-five teachers and performers from the most prestigious orchestras, conservatories, and music schools. Brevard’s hallmark is orchestral training. Our three orchestras will present eighteen different programs this summer. In all, students, faculty, and visiting artists will present some 80 public concerts. In addition to daily rehearsals, students receive private lessons and may participate in recitals, chamber music, and masterclasses.Program OverviewAll students enroll in either the High School Division (up to age eighteen) or College Division (college age and beyond, up to 29).

  • rehearse daily and perform extensively in orchestra
  • receive private lessons
  • may prepare and perform chamber music under a faculty coach
  • may perform in solo and chamber concerts
  • may perform in solo and chamber concerts
  • may compete in the annual Concerto Competition

2014 Guest Concertmasters

Three of the world’s great concertmasters join Brevard’s artist faculty for the 2014 season.

  • William Preucil, concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, continues his long association with Brevard.
  • David Kim, concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, makes his BMC debut.
  • Noah Bendix-Balgley, the newly-named concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, returns to Brevard for his second summer.

While in residence they will each serve as concertmaster of the BMCO, perform chamber music, offer masterclasses, and teach a full studio of violin students.

For a complete list of the 2014 Faculty visit

brevardmusic.org/institute/faculty

2014 Orchestral Highlights Include

  • BEETHOVEN “Pastoral” Symphony
  • BRAHMS Symphonies No. 1 and 2
  • DVORÁK Symphony No. 8
  • ELGAR Enigma Variations
  • MENDELSSOHN “Italian” Symphony
  • RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances
  • MAHLER Symphony No. 4
  • MOZART Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”
  • MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition
  • PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 7
  • SHOSTAKOVITCH Symphony No. 10
  • TCHAIKOVSKY Suite from Swan Lake

A complete list of the season’s repertoire can be found here

brevardmusic.org/institute/repertoire

Contact Brevard

The Admissions Office is the place to ask virtually any question about applications, auditions, enrollment, or other topics pertaining to the Brevard Music Center. You can email admissions@brevardmusic.org or call(828) 862-2140 to speak with Brevard’s Director of Admissions Dorothy Knowles.

Apply Now | (828) 862-2140 | brevardmusic.org 
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We’re playing at Disney World!!!

December 9, 2013 by Love Nurtured Music

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We’re so excited to announce that we have an opportunity of a lifetime! We are planning a trip to perform at Disney World (Florida) for the Disney Youth Performing Arts program. A selected group of our violin students will be performing on one of Disney World stages.

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Way to go, practice champions!

December 5, 2013 by Love Nurtured Music

Congratulations to Anna Victoria Lavelle and Alondra Flores for completing their 100 days of practice in a row chart this week!!

They have made tremendous improvements due to their increased practice discipline.

They were awarded their well-deserved Love Nurtured Music “Practice Champion T-shirts.”

If you want your free T-shirt, complete the 100-Day Challenge Chart here.

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Community Suzuki Workshop Recital: Violin Students

November 18, 2013 by Love Nurtured Music

Congratulations!

Congratulations to everybody who came to our workshop! Frances, Alondra, Ailyn, and Alejandro did a great job performing in the recital. Next time, we will be glad to have others who are prepared perform, as well. Well done!

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Extensive Musical Training Affects Brain Structure And Function

November 13, 2013 by Love Nurtured Music

BrainMusical training shapes brain anatomy and affects function, says a new study presented this week in San Diego, California at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health. The new findings show that training before age 7 has bigger impact on brain anatomy; improvisation can rewire brain.

The new research shows how brain regions communicate during the creation of music and find that extensive musical training affects the structure and function of different brain regions and even how the brain interprets and integrates sensory information.

These insights suggest potential new roles for musical training including fostering plasticity in the brain, an alternative tool in education, and treating a range of learning disabilities.

The new findings say that:

  • Long-term high level musical training has a broader impact than previously thought. Researchers found that musicians have an enhanced ability to integrate sensory information from hearing, touch, and sight.
  • The age at which musical training begins affects brain anatomy as an adult; beginning training before the age of seven has the greatest impact.
  • Brain circuits involved in musical improvisation are shaped by systematic training, leading to less reliance on working memory and more extensive connectivity within the brain.

Some of the brain changes that occur with musical training reflect the automation of task (much as one would recite a multiplication table) and the acquisition of highly specific sensorimotor and cognitive skills required for various aspects of musical expertise.

“Playing a musical instrument is a multisensory and motor experience that creates emotions and motions — from finger tapping to dancing — and engages pleasure and reward systems in the brain. It has the potential to change brain function and structure when done over a long period of time,” said press conference moderator Gottfried Schlaug, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “As today’s findings show, intense musical training generates new processes within the brain, at different stages of life, and with a range of impacts on creativity, cognition, and learning.”

-Presented at the Neuroscience 2013 annual meeting.

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A Patriotic Salute: God Bless America by Rigo Murillo

November 11, 2013 by Love Nurtured Music

A warm salute to celebrate our country, our home, sweet home!

God Bless America performed by Rigo Murillo, Violin:

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Progress Through Repetition

November 3, 2013 by Love Nurtured Music

small-girl-violin-studio-2Dear Suzuki families,

Here is an article about the role of repetition in daily music practice. I think this information will help your daily Suzuki violin practice sessions with your children at home. The article was written by Kerstin Wartberg, a fellow Suzuki violin teacher from Germany.

I have attached versions of this article in both English and Spanish.

You can always go to www.LoveNurturedMusic.org/blog for practice resources.

Have a great week and I will see you at our lessons this week.

Blessings,

Rigo Murillo
Suzuki Strings Specialist
Love Nurtured Music Program

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Progress Through Repetition
Progresar A Través De La Repetición

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Want your child to be a great multi-tasker? Head out to music lessons

September 4, 2013 by Love Nurtured Music

Hearing the Music, Honing the Mind

By Rigo Murillo

I just came across an October 2010 Scientific American article, in which neuroscientists examined the benefits of learning and practicing music. They found a direct correlation of music learning to the enhancement of general learning ability. Another confirmation of the fact that music makes people smarter.

The researchers found that “assiduous instrument training from an early age can help the brain to process sounds better, making it easier to stay focused when absorbing other subjects, from literature to tensor calculus.” They also discovered that music lessons improves memory and concentration throughout one’s life and boosts the ability to multitask, work in disruptive environments and learning other languages.

This information comes handy at a time when many schools and education administrators are deciding to cut music and arts programs as a first resource. A report mentioned in the article found that, for example, the number of students enrolled in music programs in California dropped 50% from 1999 to 2004.

It seems that it is time for the scientists to educate the educators… just saying. What do you think?

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Practice Makes Perfect? Not So Much, New Research Finds

August 29, 2013 by Love Nurtured Music

chess-boardMay 20, 2013 — Turns out, that old “practice makes perfect” adage may be overblown. New research led by Michigan State University’s Zach Hambrick finds that a copious amount of practice is not enough to explain why people differ in level of skill in two widely studied activities, chess and music.

In other words, it takes more than hard work to become an expert. Hambrick, writing in the research journal Intelligence, said natural talent and other factors likely play a role in mastering a complicated activity.

“Practice is indeed important to reach an elite level of performance, but this paper makes an overwhelming case that it isn’t enough,” said Hambrick, associate professor of psychology.

The debate over why and how people become experts has existed for more than a century. Many theorists argue that thousands of hours of focused, deliberate practice is sufficient to achieve elite status.

Hambrick disagrees.

“The evidence is quite clear,” he writes, “that some people do reach an elite level of performance without copious practice, while other people fail to do so despite copious practice.”

Hambrick and colleagues analyzed 14 studies of chess players and musicians, looking specifically at how practice was related to differences in performance. Practice, they found, accounted for only about one-third of the differences in skill in both music and chess.

So what made up the rest of the difference?

Based on existing research, Hambrick said it could be explained by factors such as intelligence or innate ability, and the age at which people start the particular activity. A previous study of Hambrick’s suggested that working memory capacity — which is closely related to general intelligence — may sometimes be the deciding factor between being good and great.

While the conclusion that practice may not make perfect runs counter to the popular view that just about anyone can achieve greatness if they work hard enough, Hambrick said there is a “silver lining” to the research.

“If people are given an accurate assessment of their abilities and the likelihood of achieving certain goals given those abilities,” he said, “they may gravitate toward domains in which they have a realistic chance of becoming an expert through deliberate practice.”

Hambrick’s co-authors are Erik Altmann from MSU; Frederick Oswald from Rice University; Elizabeth Meinz from Southern Illinois University; Fernand Gobet from Brunel University in the United Kingdom; and Guillermo Campitelli from Edith Cowan University in Australia.


The above story is based on materials provided by Michigan State University. Journal Reference: David Z. Hambrick, Frederick L. Oswald, Erik M. Altmann, Elizabeth J. Meinz, Fernand Gobet, Guillermo Campitelli. Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert? Intelligence, 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2013.04.001

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