Curated OER
How To Play Violin/Fiddle - The Swan - Position Shifting
Listen as Paul plays "The Swan," which requires a lot of position switching. This video does not include a lesson, just a clip of the song being played.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Mad Hot Tango: Caeli Smith
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 15-year-old violinist Caeli Smith plays a wonderful movement from Astor Piazzolla's L'histoire du tango, called Bordel 1900. [0:49]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Listening With Your Eyes: Matthew Lipman
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 16-year-old violist Matthew Lipman plays La Campanella" from the Second Violin Concerto by Niccolo Paganini. [4:12]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: From the Top at Carnegie Hall: Gypsy Airs: Anna Ji Eun Lee
From the Top at Carnegie Hall video featuring a performance by 12-year-old Anna JiEun Lee on the violin. [4:41]
PBS
Pbs: From the Top at Carnegie Hall Video Podcast
Here you will find thirty video podcasts of performances from Carnegie Hall including violin, piano, and other orchestra instruments. Most of these artists are teenagers.
BBC
Bbc Orchestra Guide: Strings Violin
Presented by the BBC, this page features the violin. You can read a brief description of the violin, listen to various samples of the violin and read an interview of a professional violin player.
Other
National Film Board of Canada: The Chinese Violin
Animated film, with soundtrack, of a young girl who moves with her father from China to Canada and begins a new life. Learn what role music plays in her immigration experience. [8:23]