Viola Boot Camp

Spend your Winter Break with the NIU Viola Studio!  We are opening our studio class for you to observe and participate in.  Weekly one-hour sessions will focus on a variety of technical and musical topics, with presentations and performances by NIU viola students and professor Anthony Devroye.    

Registration is free of charge. Email adevroye@niu.edu to receive the Zoom code for the class; include your name, year in school (if applicable), and name of current private teacher and/or youth orchestra program. 

 Class schedule: 

12/2 Calisthenics I: Left-Hand Workouts 

12/9 Calisthenics II: Bow-Arm Workouts 

12/16 Unlock Your Bach: performing unaccompanied Bach on viola 

12/23 Calisthenics III: mastering double-stops for intonation and finger strength 

12/30 Beyond Bach: unaccompanied viola music of Reger and Hindemith 

1/6 Audition Excerpts: approaching the orchestral audition process 

1/13 Calisthenics IV: extreme scale practice 

1/20 “Perfect Storm”: music of Shulamit Ran