MAVI – the shorthand moniker for the Max Aronoff Viola Institute – the string camp that I helped co-found 20 years ago with University of Puget Sound viola professor Joyce Ramée – is starting this coming Sunday up at Bastyr University, so it’s time for the pre-festival rehearsing to begin as well. Today was the first run of the Bartók Concerto with the amazing Dr. Duane Hulbert on the piano. It’s going to come together very well, and should be a lot of fun. Tonight brings a rehearsal of the seldom-heard string quintet Op. 18 in B-flat by a young Felix Mendelssohn. I’ve got some work to do on that before I’m ready to go. For now, some errands and grocery shopping, then practice time!