Tag: violin performance

STATE CHAMPION – CONGRATULATIONS, ROHITH!

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Warmest congratulations to LHS violinist Rohith S. for winning the OUTSTANDING PERFORMER AWARD at the Texas State Solo & Ensemble Competition in Austin! Rohith stands out as the only musician in his highly competitive school district (FBISD) to receive this honor in 2026.

Only the top 2% – 3% of musicians who make it to state are nominated for the Outstanding Performer Award. This medal is the highest award for high schoolers in Texas and is granted to State Champions across disciplines, including athletics, academics, and fine arts.

Rohith is President and Concertmaster of the Dulles HS Orchestra, Concertmaster of Fort Bend Honor Orchestra, Vice President of DHS Tri-M, is a TMEA All-State Orchestra violinist, and is the founder of the Do Re Mi Project’s Houston chapter.

We are especially proud of Rohith’s longtime work with Barton House to facilitate performances for Alzheimer’s care patients. Rohith has been an LHS student for over 10 years (with lessons online since LHS moved to Washington!), and we so vividly remember the excitement of his first performance at Atria Senior Living in 2015!

Rohith, we are SO PROUD OF YOU, your artistry, and your leadership. Your musical joy makes the world a better place. Bravo!

Many thanks to Rohith’s wonderful family for the support and enthusiasm they bring to every lesson!

Ms. Haley Talks Pedagogy at the Eastman School of Music

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Photo credit: Dr. Lisa Caravan. Shared with permission.

Last week was so full of teaching inspiration! It was a dream come true to speak about pedagogy with string performance students at the Eastman School of Music (mobile users, click through to your browser to view the photos). Eastman’s performance majors (both graduate and undergrad students) already had so much insight into teaching and it was such a privilege to spend time with them! Many thanks to Dr. Lisa Caravan and Eastman’s Music Teaching & Learning Department for sponsoring my visit. It was especially exciting to hear that Dr. Caravan and her students headed to ROCMusic to teach immediately following our class together! If you haven’t heard of ROCMusic, click this link and check it out!

Ready for a Region Boost? Check out the LHS MS Region Tutorials in Collaboration with Cellist Mark Yee!

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MS Region auditions are just around the corner and we’re so excited to give everyone an extra boost. We’ll be offering the FBISD Region 13 MS etude and scale performances and tutorials on violin and cello for 50% off this week only! Click HERE to access the videos through the LHS Vimeo site! Young musicians can rent the videos to rewatch at home an UNLIMITED number of times before Region auditions on November 2nd and 3rd.

LHS is thrilled to collaborate with cellist Mark Yee to create exceptional cello tutorials and performances for this year’s audition material! You can read all about Mark, a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music (B.M., Cello Performance) and Eastman School of Music (M.M. and Performer’s Certificate) at this link.

Best of luck to everyone for fabulous auditions again this year! Be sure to follow @LaurenHaleyStudios on Instagram for audition tips and to keep up with the latest studio news!

LHS Violinist Anna M. Accepted into the Fort Bend Symphony!

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Huge congratulations to LHS violinist Anna M. on her successful audition for the Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra!

Anna’s first performance as a violinist in the FBSO will be the orchestra’s “Russian Fireworks” concert on Sunday, October 6th at 2 pm at the Stafford Center. Click here to get tickets to this performance, which will feature works by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov!

Congratulations, Anna! We’re so proud of your awesome work!

LHS Young Musicians Make Top Orchestras at School Auditions!

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Congratulations to everyone on your stellar spring auditions! We are so excited to celebrate the successful varsity and JV audition results below!

Christian, viola (Clements HS)

Anika, viola (Dulles HS)

Seline, violin (Austin HS)

Hamsini, violin (Elkins HS)

Morgan, viola (Baines MS)

Jordan, viola (Travis HS)

Ryder, viola (Travis HS)

Berkay, violin (Quail Valley MS)

Zayn, viola (Garcia MS)

Taruni, viola (Elkins HS)

Rishab, viola (Fort Settlement MS)

Archana, violin (Clements HS)

Olivia, viola (Ridge Point HS)

Amanda, viola (Ridge Point HS)

Catherine, violin (Dulles MS)

Elizabeth, violin (Dulles MS)

Pramiti, violin (Fort Settlement MS)

#AuditionGoals (photo by Albertine Wang)

Happy News from Eastman!

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The Eastman School of Music bookstore will carry Kids Aren’t Lazy: Developing Motivation & Talent Through Music.  Kids Aren’t Lazy has been included in reading lists for select pedagogy courses (graduate and undergrad) at ESM this semester and last.

In other news, click HERE to check out a list of brilliant Eastman alumni who have been nominated for Grammy Awards! You can catch the Grammys this Sunday, February 10th.

Last but not least, click HERE to read about Eastman in a list of the 20 Best Colleges and Conservatories for Music in the US (listed alphabetically). Here’s a small snippet from the article:

“Time and time again, Eastman has availed itself as one of the top conservatories in the world. You don’t have to look too deeply into the school to see why.
The faculty rate among the very best around the globe. You can take a look at any department and see what makes this school so incredibly amazing. . . . What we especially like about the school is its close-knit relationship to the University of Rochester, one of the premiere research universities in the country.
Eastman is exceptionally difficult to get into . . . but for those who want the balance of an incredible education with musicians on par with those studying at schools such as Juilliard, you cannot beat the Eastman experience.“

Kids Aren’t Lazy Now Available at Gold Violin Shop!

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We’re delighted to announce that Kids Aren’t Lazy: Developing Motivation & Talent Through Music is now available from Gold Violin Shop in Houston, Texas. It’s an honor to partner with Philip Gold, a highly respected luthier whose string instrument shop has been a Houston staple for decades. Read more about Mr. Gold and his shop in the Houston Chronicle, HERE.

Kids Aren’t Lazy is also available from Barnes & Noble, Amazon (Kindle and Paperback), Amati Violin Shop, Cardiff Violins, Johnson String Instrument, Carriage House Violins, The River Oaks Bookstore, and the Sugar Land Art Center and Gallery. To read the recent review of Kids Aren’t Lazy in the European String Teachers Association (ESTA UK) Magazine, Arco, click HERE.

Announcing the February 2019 LHS Winter Showcase Concert!

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Happy New Year!

We’re excited to invite LHS musicians, families, and friends to the 2019 LHS Winter Showcase Concert on Sunday, February 24th, 2019 at 6:00PM in the Virtuosi of Houston Studio. We’re thrilled to welcome back pianist Evelyn Lam to collaborate with LHS young musicians. All are welcome to join us for a reception following the performances. See you there!

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An Evening of Chamber Music with LHS, December 2018.

LHS Young Musicians Shine!

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We’re thrilled for everyone’s amazing performances this past Saturday at the LHS Evening of Chamber Music at the Virtuosi of Houston Studio! From Seitz to Lalo to Brahms (with a little bit of Twinkle!), LHS musicians performed both solo works and ensemble favorites.

As this semester comes to an end, we’re so excited to reflect on the leadership we’ve seen from LHS young musicians. From concertmaster solos (Jessica, Lizzie!) to principal viola solos (Jordan, Anika!), from coaching younger orchestras (Olivia, Jordan!) to leading ensemble performances in the community (Sugar Strings!), from being first chair (Morgan, Jessica, Jordan, Anika, Lizzie, Amanda, Christian…we’re surely missing a few young musicians in this list, let us know!), to performing in the Houston Youth Symphony (Christian, Archana, Catherine, Elizabeth!) from making region (LHS violinists/violists in ALL FOUR region orchestras!) to teaching lessons themselves (Molly, Lauren!), we have seen everyone grow tremendously.

This week, we send lots of luck to Seline (violin) and Dhruv (viola). Both are traveling to Chicago this week as members of the top orchestra at Austin HS. Dhruv and Seline will be performing in their orchestra at the Midwest Clinic. Have fun, guys!

Smile, everyone! Photo by Karen Needham
Amber (left) and Emily (Photo by Karen Needham)
Cheers! Photo by Karen Yang. Catherine (left) and Lizzie with Ms. Haley and Ms. Lam

LHS Musicians Make Region, Perform this Weekend!

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We’re proud to announce that LHS violinists and violists will be performing tomorrow in ALL FOUR Region groups! (Mobile users, click through to website to view concert details.)

Special shout-out to Lizzie (6th grade, Dulles MS) for winning the Concertmaster spot (and solo!) in the MS Philharmonic. Musical leadership runs in the family — Lizzie’s twin sister, Catherine, will perform as Principal 2nd Violin in the MS Symphony!

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Image courtesy of The Sugar Land Moms