A Personal Seven-Year Violin Odyssey

March 4, 2006 at 3:52 PM

I would like to accomplish the following within the next seven years:

Master the following 7 etude series, in the following order

Dont (opus 37) 24 studies
Kreutzer 42 studies
Rode 24 studies
Fiorillo 36 studies
Dont (opus 35) 24 studies
Gavinies 24 studies
Paganini 24 studies

Master and perform the following 25 concerti:

Tchaikovsky violin concerto
Beethoven violin concerto
Sibelius violin concerto
Mozart violin concerto #4 (using my own cadenzas)
Mozart violin concerto #5 (using my own cadenzas)
Brahms violin concerto
Elgar violin concerto
Mendelssohn violin concerto
Bruch violin concerto
Saint-Saens violin concerto
Korngold violin concerto
Walton violin concerto
Vivaldi A minor violin concerto
Vivaldi 4 violin concerto
DeBeriot G major violin concerto
Bach Double violin concerto
Bach E major violin concerto
Bach A minor violin concerto
Bach G minor violin concerto
Samuel Taylor-Coleridge violin concerto
Anthony Davis MAPS Violin Concerto
Cordero violin concerto
RovelleQuartz violin concerto #1 (not yet created)
RovelleQuartz violin concerto #2 (not yet created)
1 TBD

Master and perform the following seven showpieces
Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole"
Ernst's “Last Rose of Summer”
Kriesler's "Praeludium and Allegro"
Wienawski's "Scherzo Tarantelle"
“U.S. National Anthem” (using my own original arr.)
Fight of the Bumblebee
Yanni’s “Keys to Imagination” violin cadenza

Master and perform the following selected sonatas

The 6 Bach Unaccompanied Sonatas
The 6 Bach Accompanied Sonatas
The 8 Handel Sonatas for violin & piano
Pick 2 Beethoven sonatas
Pick 1 Mozart Sonata
Franc Sonata
2 TBD

Deepen knowlegde and performance abilities in the following different styles of music, with emphasis on jazz:

Jazz
Blues
Bluegrass/American-Fiddle
Salsa
Indian
Celtic

Develop a core repertoire of about 50 violin solo Christian melody arrangements

and a few other things like greatly enhancing sight reading abilities, developing a core set of orchestral audition excerpts, and developing some compositional skills

maybe earn a DMA in the process.... LOL

To be realistic, those goals are my "pie in the sky reference" if I make just 20-30% of them in the next seven years I'll be very happy.

I'll use this log to comment on my progress on this personal oddessy! :)

From Linda Lerskier
Posted on March 4, 2006 at 7:31 PM

Woah! Good luck! A bit of a heavy load eh? You'll need all the luck you can get to master all that. :)

From Sydney Menees
Posted on March 5, 2006 at 4:51 PM

I hope you have a lot of time to practice every day! Good luck on your odyssey!

From Jim W. Miller
Posted on March 5, 2006 at 11:22 PM

Hmmmmm. What's with the TBDs? You've got some mathematical basis for all this.

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