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Peter Purich Part 1: Luthier, Innovator, Multi-Instrumentalist, Educator
Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman
English - September 17, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMusic Interviews Music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Peter Purich is an innovative violin maker known for his unique personalized chinrest design. He’s also a multi-instrumentalist who plays in many different styles, and a dedicated violin and viola pedagogue. Because this conversation was extra-long it has been divided into two episodes. Part 1 delves into his development as an instrument maker and innovator, and as a creative musician. He shows and describes some of his innovations with chinrest design. The episode ends with some improvisation and some great parenting advice! Part 2 will continue with a lot of specifics about playing and teaching the violin, and he shows some of his inventive instrument designs, his unique shoulder support, and some great wisdom.
I have added timestamps below, and like all these episodes this is available both as a podcast and a video, and the transcript will be published to this same link: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/peter-purich
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Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(01:29) Peter’s father and his start making instruments and bows
(06:12) Peter’s trip to Europe, Vienna Philharmonic instruments
(10:17) different kinds of woods, styles of violin bows
(13:44) research on carbon fiber
(19:25) Peter’s custom-made chin rests, vibrato, shifting, how to hold a violin
(46:34) Peter’s pedagogy
(49:30) Peter’s approach to improvisation and experiences with different styles and instruments
(51:30) I Musici chamber orchestra in Montreal, Yuli Turovsky
(54:30) Arthur Garami
(56:27) Gerald Stanick
(57:44) why it’s good to improvise with demonstrations
(01:09:36) teaching students improvisation
(01:11:59) parenting and Peter’s great advice