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R. Todd Ehle
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Please visit www.toddehle.com where I have posted these videos in a manner that is easier to navigate. There are also practice tips, favorite quotes, etc. (PLEASE NOTE that there are apx. 30 videos here that I have not yet added to my web site. I will attempt to update it soon).

You can also visit www.fiddlercove.org where Al Justice has posted these videos, as well as the wonderful bowing videos by Calvin Sieb (they are highly recommended!).

Todd Ehle is a professor of violin at Del Mar College, a Junior College in Corpus Christi, TX, where he has taught students of all ages and abilities for the past 10 years. Before arriving in TX, Mr. Ehle taught violin at the Wausau Conservatory of Music, a community music school located in Wausau, WI. Todd spent seven years studying with Professor Richard Fuchs at the University of Northern Colorado. Mr. Fuchs is a protege' of Paul Rolland (a Hungarian-Born violinist and formerly professor at the University of Illinois. Rolland authored 'The Teaching Of Action In String Playing' - much of which influences Todd's videos).
Todd spent four months working with William Starr, renowned Suzuki pedagogue and author of 'The Suzuki Violinist'. Following his work with Mr. Starr, Todd spent a year with Margery Aber, founder of the American Suzuki Institute in Stevens Point, WI.
Todd attended the Eastman School of Music (did not graduate) where he was a student of Catherine Tait, the Meadowmount School (student of Kevin Lawrence) and the Bowdoin Music Festival, where he studied with Lewis Kaplan. He was also a long-time student of both Harold Wippler (former concertmaster of the Denver Symphony and teacher of Eugene Fodor) and Ernest Papavasilion (former violinist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, NYC). Todd would also like to give credit to his first violin teacher, Mrs. Pat Zick, who put up with him for so many years, and also taught him so much in the process!
***Possible interest to students of violin pedagogy (and TOO MUCH INFORMATION to others); Todd's teachers have a very interesting "family tree". As mentioned before, Fuchs was as student of Rolland, who studied with Imre Waldbauer. Waldbauer was a student of the great Hungarian violinist, Jeno Hubay.
Suzuki was a student of the German violin pedagogue, Karl Klingler. Klingler studied with the great Hungarian-born violinist Joseph Joachim (Brahms dedicated his violin concerto to Joachim).
Harold Wippler studied with Efram Zimbalist who was a pupil of the great Leopold Auer (also Hungarian, but the head of the famous 'Russian school' of violin and teacher of Heifetz, Elman and Milstein) and Todd's teacher, Ernest Papavasilion, was a pupil of Raphael Bronstein, also a pupil of Leopold Auer.
Tait, Lawrence and Kaplan all were students of Ivan Galamian (teacher of Perlman, Zuckerman, Chung and so many more) Galamian's violin family tree can be traced all the way back to both Vivaldi and Corelli.
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Channel Comments (363)
AdeliaGabyashi (1 day ago)
Hello!! "Big" thank you for your videos! :) I was so happy to find such an YouTube channel!
Would you make a video how to play 6th please?
Thank you!
reey1234 (5 days ago)
Please accept my friend invite, I have to send you a message about an online collaboration :)
CtlBrandon (1 week ago)
I saw your vids before and I've been getting back into the violin and I'm using them. Thanks a lot for your help.
zenryoku237 (1 week ago)
i think you should be a youtube partner. it's good for u, and us
xToatsies (1 week ago)
Thanks so much for all the helpful lessons and videos, they have helped me tremendously! I hope you come out with more soon. :)
argirisp (1 week ago)
hello professor...thank you very much for your helpful videos!!!I would like you to give me some advice for how i can put gradually the left hand to sautille bowing and finaly play a note for each bowing of this technique!!thank you!!!
bduncan43 (1 week ago)
Todd,

I'm an adult learner - started last December. I've been progressing fine, particularly on the left hand. I have a good teacher and use your great videos a lot. Many thanks for those.

My violin and bow are plenty good, but I can't get a good tone. I liken it to a deaf person talking - you can understand it, but it's kind of "thick," like many adult beginners sound, I guess.

I recorded myself today, as I do periodically, and realized that it's less that the tone itself is so bad than it is a matter of my attack on each note. Maybe I've missed it in your vast repertoire of videos, but do you talk about that somewhere? #15 on tone production is good but maybe there's more to say? If so, I'd like to suggest it as a topic.

Thanks for all you put into this,

Bill
CineMutt (1 week ago)
I appreciate your vids very much. My teacher seems almost incapable of clearly explaining or demonstrating anything having to do with the physical playing of the instrument. (I'm looking for another teacher). Your clear, calm style is helpful and a great relief!
michcota (1 week ago)
Hey, I've been messing around by myself on the violin for about two years now. I haven't been able to find time or afford lessons and I happened to stumble upon your channel today. Your videos have already helped me already so much, thank you so much for taking the time to put these awesome, free videos on Youtube.

Cheers,
Michael
bduncan43 (1 week ago)
Todd, do you realize that the playlist for holding the violin is marked "private"? At least that the response I get when I go to it from the link on your web site...
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