Imagine learning music in a new way, with highly skilled professional musicians from around the world, directly in your home.
Online group classes introduce students to new ways to learn, hear, see and connect with each other, growing curiosity and practice in between private lessons.
Virtuosity.online is across generations, levels, geography, time zones and across barriers.
About
Using online conferencing software, Virtuosity.online’s group classes are for all levels of students. Our curated series includes technical development, performance experience, movement awareness, mindfulness, creative expression and career development.
Classes are designed for multiple levels, including beginning students, professional musicians and all teachers. Virtuosity.online faculty generously share their experience, artistic insight and passion for musical expression.
Virtuosity.online provides access to professional musicians and other students who may have been where you are now. Curiosity for new ways to grow and learn in our craft unites us.
Our story
We believe curiosity is the impetus for the growth of all musicians and that new ways to learn and connect are at our fingertips. The great pause (fermata) experienced around the world in 2020 inspired us to launch Virtuosity.online, strengthening and growing connections and our craft, together.
Our founder
Founder and Director, Kevin A. Lefohn, melds a career as a conservatory-trained professional violinist, university professor, performing arts executive, and creative entrepreneur with 10 years of online instrumental teaching experience. He founded Virtuosity.online as a response to a quest to grow connections among musicians to follow the path of a constantly curious mind.
“With curiosity we seek answers for ourselves. The most meaningful answers come from personal exploration. A musician’s ‘practice journey’ is inherently personal. It can be energizing, at times lonely and frustrating, and yet infectious. The path of a musician’s practice journey deeply affects their life and achievements. Whether it is spending ‘curiosity time’ on instrumental technique, musical interpretation, honing the art of personal practice, increasing awareness of physical movement, or simply mindfulness, the answers we discover are most powerful when shared in the presence of others, those who you welcome online into your own home, even if you are wearing your favorite pair of mismatched socks.”
Read Kevin’s full bio here.
“The studio class format of the online classes is a fantastic complement to individual private lessons. Students inspire one another and challenge each other to grow their musicianship in a friendly, supportive environment.”
—Dr. Raúl Gómez, Music Director of Metropolitan Youth Symphony
“I know of no other online resource that holds comprehensive technique and master classes in this way. These classes fill such a big need among teachers…affordable and ongoing classes that cover a large range of topics for the string player. I have already benefitted so much as a teacher.”
—Ruth Sadilek, Violinist, Pianist, and Private Teacher
“The online classes have allowed me to connect with an incredible community of musicians. I have been inspired and challenged by people I would not otherwise have met. It's been amazing to see groups of such diverse age and ability levels come together and learn from one another.”