Just picked this up off of Sheridan’s blog – too good to pass up. It really is viola playing in a nutshell – you watch and listen, waiting for the seemingly inevitable car wreck…
Sheridan, by the way, was a classmate of mine at the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with BSO principal violist Richard Field, while I was in Roberto Dìaz’s studio. She’s now the principal violist of the Dayton Philharmonic.
BTW – lest there be a misunderstanding, the talented young woman below is not Sheridan, she’s an unidentified student at Oberlin College.