Today, I’m excited to have violinist, Dr. Lynn Kuo, on to discuss performance preparation, repertoire selection, avoiding injury, and much more.

Lynn’s Violin 2.0 Bootcamp is coming up soon, so if you like what you hear today, I encourage you to find out more at Lynn's Website.

Lynn is Assistant Concertmaster of the National Ballet of Canada and is Founder/CEO of Violin with Dr. Lynn, serving as an online educator for violinists motivated to become stronger, more fearless performers. And in Winter 2020 was the Visiting Assistant Professor of Violin at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

As a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, Lynn has performed worldwide and has given numerous world premieres of acoustic and electroacoustic solo and chamber works written by international composers.

Lynn holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Toronto, having dedicated her research to holistic health and injury prevention in orchestral string musicians.

Lynn’s self-produced album LOVE: Innocence, Passion, Obsession is available wherever you listen to music.

I highly recommend checking out Lynn’s social media channels, where she regularly posts violin tutorials on a plethora of topics and features Lynn’s other interests: karate and salsa dancing.

We Cover:

• How Lynn’s parents tried to convince her to go into law instead of music.
• Why Lynn received 3 degrees from the same institution.
• Assessing career and earning potential in music.
• Her belief in how you can forge your own path no matter where you go to school.
• How a summer program experience was central to her school choice.
• How not all great teachers have a digital footprint.
• What to pay attention to when receiving feedback from a teacher.
• The importance of a mentor in the music school preparation process.
• How to choose the repertoire for your audition.
• The first step Lynn takes when she is preparing a new composition.
• Reverse engineering your audition preparation.
• The non-traditional settings where Lynn has performed mock auditions.
• Tapering before an audition.
• Lynn’s day-of audition strategy.
• Avoiding injury.
• Developing a career as a soloist and collaborator.
• The importance of maintaining visibility.
• Lynn’s Violin Bootcamp 2.0.
• Her favorite classical and salsa music.

Links Mentioned:

• Lynn's Violin Bootcamp 2.0
• Lynn's Instagram
• Lynn's YouTube Channel
• Mahler 5 conducted by Claudio Abbado

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Theme Music:

‘Elegua’ from Axiom Asunder by The Majestic Jazz Orchestra

Composed by Buzz Jones.