Celia Cobb
ReviewBook review: Expressive Violin Technique: How to Teach and Acquire It
Celia Cobb explores Bruce Douglas Berg’s method to help intermediate to advanced players and teachers ‘combine expression with technique’
ReviewBook review: Together on Strings
Celia Cobb goes through Esther Klein and Michael Dartsch’s collection of 23 ‘German and international’ song arrangements for young string players
ReviewBook review: Violin Junior
Celia Cobb reviews Ros Stephen’s latest collection of method books aimed at younger players
ReviewBook review: Wee Violin: World Music Preparatory to Twinkle
Celia Cobb reads Crystal Boyack’s introductory work for very young students of the violin
ReviewBook review: Violin in Action
Celia Cobb reviews Kristina Mirkovic’s four-volume course on violin playing, including books on scales, positions, and intervals and arpeggios
ReviewBook review: Pizzicato Performance Collection: Fifteen Pizzicato Works for the Beginning String Orchestra
Celia Cobb reviews Doug Spata’s book of pizzicato works for string orchestra, including a teacher’s edition
ReviewBook review: Whole Notes: Life Lessons through Music
Celia Cobb reads a compelling memoir by Australian cellist, violist and teacher Ed Ayres
ReviewBook review: London College of Music Violin Handbooks
Celia Cobb casts her eye over the newly released, and completely overhauled, volumes by the LCM
ReviewBook review: Unconditional Teaching
Celia Cobb reviews the latest in Paul Harris’s illuminating series of books on music education
ReviewBook review: Exercises and Scales for Violin Positions: Handbook for Violin Lessons
Celia Cobb reviews a guide to shifting and position-work by Ines Ana Tomić
ReviewBook review: 1 Teaches 2 Learn: Private music teaching and you
Celia Cobb reviews a book (and e-book) filled with interviews and advice from a lifetime of string teaching
ReviewBook review: My Violin Needs Help!: A repair diagnostics guide for players and teachers
Celia Cobb reviews a manual that explains the basics of violin maintenance to the layperson
ReviewSingende Saiten: Die schönsten Solostücke für Violine oder Bratsche
Celia Cobb examines an unusual method for practising with different clefs and key signatures
DebateOpinion: Best of both worlds
If we work together and communicate effectively there is no reason why a student cannot benefit from lessons with more than one instrumental tutor, writes Celia Cobb
ArticleOpinion: Managing a good ending
When a child wants to stop instrumental lessons, teachers have a duty to bring matters to a positive close, argues violin teacher Celia Cobb
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Book review: ABRSM Initial Grade: Exam Packs 2020–2023
Celia Cobb reviews thenew publications by the UK’s Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
