Road to being a professional violinist?

1. find an excellent teacher.

2. tell your teacher your goal.

3. do what your teacher says no matter how mundane.

4. practice frequently.

5. perform and audition as much as possible so you become comfortable.

6. play in school, local youth orchestras, audition for all state, audition for honor orchestras, attend summer camps if possible (like interlochen)

7. get into a great music school. apply to as many as possible.

8. practice about six hours a day (outside of lessons and rehearsals) I'm not joking.

9. practice your orchestral excerpts. there are a ton. very daunting.

10. network, network, network. get to know people. talk to them. help them out and they'll help you out.

11. be dependable. show up early. set out chairs, help clean up. learn your part before the first rehearsal if possible. show improvement at every rehearsal. be a stellar student by not talking during rehearsal, etc.

12. be careful what you say about others. many careers have never been started because an influential person heard a nasty comment through the grapevine.

13. be prepared to have a lot of disappointment. you just keep on auditioning and trying to improve. it's a long hard road.

14. never stop taking lessons. even when you're ninety.

15. keep the passion. if that runs out then it just isn't worth it.

get a good, well-known teacher, and start playing in recitals. As your repertoire grows, put on your own recital. Get involved in an out-of-school orchestra. Start your own quartet and play lots of gigs. Work towards getting accepted into Interlochen, either for high school or an intense summer camp. Take in students; sometimes teaching is the best way to learn. Go to different summer camps and programs to get your name out and attend concerts. Try to get master classes with well-known players. Get into all-state orchestra. Finally, go to Juliard or some other big school for music.

.. i know that's a lot..

but, most importantly of all, you should be practicing at least 5 hours a day, but don't be tense. I recommend the books Playing (Less) Hurt and The Inner Game of Music

good luck!

It helps to start at five years of age. But anyway, if you are serious then you should be practising about 3 or 4 hours per day.Do you do this ?

Join any youth orchestra near you if you are already good enough.

it extremely is by no skill too previous as a results of commence taking part in an tool. i'm 22 and that i began taking part in the violin in common terms a 365 days in the past and the piano 3 years in the past. as long as you save training and enjoy it on the comparable time than there is not something you may not do. choose for it! do not enable each physique ever inform you that it extremely is previous due or save dreaming. If it extremely is unquestionably your dream then in common terms your will could make it genuine.

actually, I play too, and it's freakin awesome.

i suggest going to Julliard or some other big music school. Start by playing gigs with other students, and you will be noticed. Try your best and sign up for solo concerts! Good luck!!!!

Getting into a music school would be a good start and it would give you a chance to be seen by head hunters and give subject you to the right contacts.

What is your age?

violin experience?

Practice makes perfect. Get your own violin and just keep on practicing until there is no difference between you and your favorite violin player.

first you take violin lessons and then ask your teacher if you could play in recitals. That's your start.

i used to play violin for school i rented the instument from school and i hated the violin so 1 day me and my friends smashed it and we had to pay the school 70 bucks haha i hate the violin

get into music school first.