lexis
In addition to your solo and orchestra musical achievements,
you are an Artist-in-Residence and Professor of Violin at
Florida International University, as well as serving as a guest
professor at venerable music schools around the world,
which include Tokyo’s Musashino Academia Musicae, the
University of Washington, the University of British Columbia,
and the Australian National University. What is the best part
of being a professor of music, and what are your views on
the sentimental power of music, especially for the younger
generations?
obert
Being a Professor of Violin and Artist in Residence and imparting to my
students not only the great works of music, but also the beauty of the related
fields of philosophy, literature, and fine arts, as well as age-old truths in all these
fields, is very fulfilling to me because it makes the students realize what it means
to be a cultured human being. This, added to their improving abilities on their
chosen instrument, makes it possible for them to express the passions, and the
various other emotions, of the great composers through the prism of the
students’ own imagination. To have former students be members of such great
orchestras as Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, etc. is a source of joy and pride.
The imparting of the beauty of ages, and stimulating the memory, imagination and
accomplishment is a never-ending reward of its own.