Masterclasses offer the audience a behind-the-scenes look at the art and craft of classical music performance.  Over the course of a two-hour session, student groups perform a movement of a piece they are preparing for an upcoming performance and receive advice on how to improve it, focusing on the finer details of ensemble, phrasing, style, and overall shape. 

Master teachers often include anecdotes about the composer and demonstrate how to play certain passages, pointing out and offering solutions to common technical issues. The group will play the movement again, repeating some passages to attain perfection. 

FREE — Reservations recommended

Masterclasses will not be livestreamed.

Called by The Boston Globe, “an intelligent, agile and breathtaking violinist,” Danwen Jiang has performed as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician worldwide. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with, among others, André-Michel Schub, Lilian Kallir, Igor Kipnis, Eric Rosenblith, Stanley Drucker, Regina Carter, the Guarneri, Juilliard, Tokyo, Emerson and Shanghai String Quartets, Boston Players, and American Chamber Players.

An in-demand violin pedagogue, Danwen has participated in numerous festivals throughout the U.S. and the world. She is a Professor of Violin and recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts School of Music. In 2018, she received the Honor Teacher Award from the Hong Kong International Violin Competition, in which her student won First Prize in the Adult Professional Division. Danwen frequently gives masterclasses at major music schools across the United States. Internationally, she has taught as visiting professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart in Germany, Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the University of Sydney in Australia, and Vancouver Academy of Music in Canada.