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

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 second of two podcasts together, they discussed why playing with others must be an “ears-over-eyes” experience, what it means to contribute texture to music, and even how varieties of chocolate might relate to a performing artist’s concept of sound.

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 topics mentioned in the podcast here:

Johannes Brahms – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms

Elizabeth Buck – https://music.asu.edu/profile/elizabeth-buck

Steven Cornelius – https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/steven_cornelius

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

Shinichi Suzuki – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Suzuki_(violinist)

Georg Philipp Telemann – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Philipp_Telemann

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

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

Oberlin Conservatory of Music – https://www.oberlin.edu/conservatory

Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Governor%27s_School_for_the_Arts

University of California, Berkeley – https://www.berkeley.edu/

Afro-Caribbean Music – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Caribbean_music

Chamber Music – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_music

Dance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance

Dark Chocolate – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_chocolate

Kinesthetic (or Physical) Intelligence – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_intelligence

Milk Chocolate – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_chocolate#Milk_chocolate

Mona Lisa – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa

Plasma –