Sofya Y. violin Cambridge, MA

Sophia was born in Moscow, Russian. During her childhood she was raised in Siberia, where she received her first violin lessons at age 6. Violin lessons were not the only lesson that was twice a week, she also received private piano, music literature, music history, theory and dance. Sophia's parents encoraged her to learn everything about classical  music because they themselves were successful musicians with awards. This is how Sophia's musical journey began with love for music and patience for hard work. 

After graduating music school in Moscow, Russia, Sophia moved to Anchorage, AK, where she had her first professional job as the musician in Anchorage symphony orchestra at age 15.  At that moment she realized that music was her destiny and that nothing would make her give up her precious instrument.

In 2007, Sophia graduated San Francisco State university with Bachlor in Music Performance. She received several scholarships, awards, solo concert and experiences.

Now, She is teaching here in Boston area and looking forward to archive music goals in near future, while dedicating herself to teach younger kids and share her knowledge to help other musicians to improve in their techniques and sound.

I learned several methods from many wonderful teachers who had successful students. I use basic technique such as scales with different strokes to improve sound and technique, it's just one of the example of the exercises. Of course there are so much in to it, your right and left hand, intonation, quality sound, tune, vibrato and I can go on on on I can show you and explain  you step by step. It's very important to have supervisor for new students.

I enjoy teaching classical music, however, I enjoy playing  Bosa Nova tunes. Basically the method I would use is similar to Russian school of music method including reading notation, writing, singing, intonation, scales, music theory, some background for music composer.

My specialty is classical music, romantic music, playing and teaching concertos and sonatas. But this is not it, also I am teaching Brazilian and Russian music and how to express those tunes.

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