Teaching artist Ford Fourqurean gives his advice for young beginners, practice tips for students, and shares his interests and passions outside of clarinet playing.

A playlist of childhood dreams, from Robert Schumann and Igor Stravinsky to Giacomo Puccini and Broadway.

Here are quick and easily implementable tips to brighten your day to day practice routine, and ultimately make practice a restorative and fulfilling activity.

We sat down with our violin teaching artist Johnna Wu to hear about her path to becoming a professional musician, her background in improvisation and other genres of music, as well as her unique teaching philosophy.

A playlist for midsummer nights, from Felix Mendelssohn to the voices of the present.

How should we approach listening to and thinking about contemporary instrumental works of music? In times where electronic idioms dominate our ears, how do we approach listening to abstract acoustic works?