Q&T with Nancy Buck – State of the Union (Vol. I)

VJC Q&T podcast host Russell Schmidt has shared a journey in music education with violist Nancy Buck since they first met in 1995 at Bowling Green State University’s new faculty orientation. And for more than two decades, Nancy and Russ have maintained a joyous partnership on and off the concert stage. Nancy is a nationally-renown artist/teacher who presently serves as an Associate Professor of Viola at Arizona State University. She is also the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the Arizona Violacademy.

Nancy recently stopped by the MSW-Tempe studio to share questions and tangents with Russ. In this, the first of two podcasts together, they discussed the pervasive impact a great mentor teacher can have, the factors that shifted her path from violinist to violist, and even the unexpected benefits that may fall to the first student of the day to get a lesson.

Learn more about Nancy Buck here:

https://music.asu.edu/profile/nancy-buck

Learn more about the Arizona Violacademy, for which she serves as Artistic Director and Co-Founder, here:

https://astaaz.org/event/violacademy/

Learn more about some of the people, institutions, and other subjects mentioned in the podcast here:

Heidi Castleman – https://www.juilliard.edu/music/faculty/castleman-heidi

Otto Erdesz – https://josephcurtinstudios.com/otto-erdesz-remembered/

Howard Johnson – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson_(jazz_musician)

Elizabeth Oakes – https://music.uiowa.edu/people/elizabeth-oakes

Vincenzo Sannino – https://tarisio.com/cozio-archive/cozio-carteggio/vincenzo-sannino/

Rayburn Wright – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayburn_Wright

Arizona State University School of Music – https://music.asu.edu/

Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts – https://www.bgsu.edu/musical-arts.html

Canton Symphony Orchestra – https://www.cantonsymphony.org/

Cleveland Institute of Music – https://www.cim.edu/

Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra – https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/community-education/oakland-symphony-youth-orchestra/Oberlin Conservatory of Music – https://www.oberlin.edu/conservatory

Plymouth Church UCC of Shaker Heights (OH) – https://www.plymouthchurchucc.org/

San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra – https://www.sfsymphony.org/EducationCommunity/SFS-Youth-Orchestra

Strings (magazine) – https://stringsmagazine.com/

Tendonitis (a.k.a. Tendinopathy) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendinopathy

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