Teaching 22 years · Philadelphia Orchestra since 1998 · • · Essential Excerpts — Autumn cohort now open · • · Studio in Bryn Mawr, PA · Melbourne, FL · Online worldwide · • · 100+ students taught · Scholarships to Oberlin, Indiana, Eastman, Richmond
Teaching 22 years · Philadelphia Orchestra since 1998 · • · Essential Excerpts — Autumn cohort now open · • · Studio in Bryn Mawr, PA · Melbourne, FL · Online worldwide · • · 100+ students taught · Scholarships to Oberlin, Indiana, Eastman, Richmond
Whether you’re just starting or preparing for professional auditions, I provide personalised violin instruction to meet your specific goals. Here are my available programs for dedicated students.
The flagship audition program — video tutorials, annotated sheet music, bi-monthly live Zoom calls.
Hundreds of interactive classical violin lessons with sheet music and play-along tracks.
Audition programmes, school selection, teacher choice and repertoire — the years after high school.
Bryn Mawr, PA · Melbourne, FL · or wherever you are, on a scheduled weekly call.
Designed for violinists seeking to master orchestral excerpts and win audition positions in professional orchestras.
Get insider knowledge from a Philadelphia Orchestra member with 25+ years of audition coaching experience. Access comprehensive video tutorials, professional sheet music with audition-standard bowings, bi-monthly live Zoom calls, and a supportive community of fellow auditioners.
Every standard excerpt, played, slowed down and explained.
Bi-monthly calls — questions, mock rounds, committee feedback.
Richard has developed a rich library with hundreds of online classical violin lessons. Students have unlimited access to the interactive lessons including sheet music and play-along tracks. Learn how to play classical violin from a virtuoso.
The studio also has a deep knowledge of the college decision. From selecting the proper school and teacher to selecting the appropriate repertoire, each student receives the information vital to the years after high school.
Two concertos, solo Bach, an étude, orchestral excerpts and scales — assembled to your calendar.
Conservatory, university or double-degree — matched to how you actually work.
Preparation for merit competitions and the recordings schools require before December.
Offers, fit, faculty, and the money — weighed together, not one at a time.
Enrolment, level, equipment and what a live call actually looks like.
No. The membership is built for professional violinists preparing for auditions, but advanced students who are serious about the standard excerpts get just as much from the annotated parts and the video tutorials. If you are still building fundamentals, start with ArtistWorks or a private lesson and join when your left hand is ready.
Members play, ask, and hear the committee’s point of view. We cover bowing choices, risk management in the first thirty seconds, how a panel weighs rounds, and what to practise the week before. Written follow-up notes go out afterwards so the session is not lost.
Yes — professional parts with audition-standard bowings are included for every excerpt in the library, and they are yours to print and mark up. Bowings are not decoration: they are the decision that gets you through the first round.
You record a passage, upload it, and Richard replies with a filmed response addressing exactly what you played. Your exchange is then visible to the ArtistWorks community, so you learn from everyone’s problems as well as your own.
The studio teaches in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and Melbourne, Florida, and online for students anywhere. Weekly lessons are the standard; many audition candidates add a second session in the final month before a live round.
