Online lessons
Individual lessons by video, using your current repertoire to explore the musical and technical questions you would like to pursue in greater depth.
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INDIVIDUAL LESSONS
Working together
on the music.
Teaching has been part of my professional life as a violinist for more than fifteen years. Today, I combine my concert career with my work as a Senior Lecturer in Musical Performance at Örebro University’s School of Music.
In working with advanced violinists, I take your repertoire and the aspects of your playing you wish to develop as our starting point, whether we are addressing a particular passage or the interpretation of an entire work.
Bowing, tone production, intonation and vibrato are explored in their musical context, where technical decisions and interpretation are closely connected. Examining the details of a passage or phrase allows us to work on sound and musical expression together.
Alongside our work on the instrument, there is room to discuss performing on stage and the questions that arise in a professional life in music.
I offer individual lessons in person and online.
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Individual lessons in person, with the opportunity to work closely on sound, bowing and interpretation through the repertoire you are preparing.
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My own
teachers.
My first violin teacher was my father, Sven-Ole Svarfvar, who began teaching me when I was four or five. He was First Concertmaster of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and, for many years, First Concertmaster of the Norwegian Opera. Having studied with André Gertler at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, he was also a much-loved teacher alongside his work as a violinist.
My further studies took me to the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and The Juilliard School in New York; among the teachers I have studied with are Henryk Kowalski, Zakhar Bron and Robert Mann.
Nikolaj Znaider, Julian Rachlin and Janine Jansen have been especially important to my own learning, and I have also had the privilege of playing chamber music with them. What I have learned from my teachers and these encounters continues to inform my own teaching.
Christian SvarfvarConcert Violinist & Senior Lecturer
in Musical Performance
MASTERCLASS EXCERPTS
From mymasterclasses.
01Learn To Master Your Ricochet
Working with the bow’s natural bounce and controlling a ricochet stroke.
02Learn To Master Your Spiccato
Bow control and coordination for a clear, flexible spiccato.
03Learn To Master Your Vibrato
Working on vibrato and how it shapes the sound of a phrase.
04Learn To Master Your Chords
Bowing and sound production in double stops and chords.
INDIVIDUAL LESSONS
Lessons &
masterclasses.
Please get in touch with any questions about individual lessons or masterclasses. A little about your musical background and the repertoire you are working on will help me understand what you would like to explore.
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