From the Stage to the Studio

Cornelia Watkins, cellist and author, is a lecturer at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, and teaches privately from her home in Madison, WI. She previously taught graduate pedagogy and preparatory cello at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Ms Watkins speaks regularly at music teaching conferences and written articles for multiple music publications including The Strad and American String Teacher. She is the author of two books about teaching and playing: Rosindust: Teaching, Learning and Life from a Cellist's Perspective and the present volume. Laurie Scott is Associate Professor of Music and Human Learning at The University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, she serves as the director of The University of Texas String Project and the Musical Lives string program at UT Elementary School. Previous to this appointment, Dr. Scott served as professor of violin and viola and director of music education studies at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. A former school orchestra director, she now mentors young professionals toward successful lives as string educators. Her former students have become exemplary string educators, professional studio and symphony musicians, and passionate arts advocates.

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Stephen Clapp
Preface

PART I | THE PERFORMING MUSICIAN
Introduction When Your Calling in Life Is to Perform, Why Learn to Teach?
1 Musicality
2 Listening
3 Technique
4 Practicing
5 Performing

PART II | THE ART OF TEACHING
6 Teaching Principles
7 Sequencing
8 Fostering Student Independence
9 Comprehensive Teaching
10 Your Teaching Philosophy

PART III | THE MUSICIAN AS A TEACHING PROFESSIONAL
11 Establishing a Teaching Studio
12 Groups, Ensembles, Classrooms, and Other Teaching Situations
13 Quandaries and Options
14 The Cyclical and Reciprocal Nature of Teaching and Learning

Conclusion
Appendixes
Index