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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:40 Musical Background
7:00 Being a Child Prodigy
9:20 Performing All 24 Paganini Caprices at 10
23:16 Expanding Repertoire
26:10 How Many Hours of Practice
28:46 French Immersion School
33:01 Studying with Her Father
34:36 Donald Weilerstein
36:00 Having a Lesson Once A Week
40:46 Ilya Kaler
43:23 Soovin Kim
47:40 Current Endeavors
52:58 Future Career Aspirations
58:47 Practice Tip of the Week - Mercedes
1:02:06 Recording Recommendation of the Week - Mercedes
7 Aug 2026
Jaewon Seo - A Musical Soliloquy 26
Jaewon Seo, violinist of the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and Welcome
0:32 Musical Upbringing
4:24 Moving around a lot as a kid
8:15 Family Musicians
9:50 Studying with Pinchas Zukerman
11:30 Cleveland Institute of Music
13:25 Ivan Zenaty
16:53 Rice University
21:20 Ivan Galamian
22:19 Orchestral Excerpts
26:02 New World Symphony
27:53 Grand Rapids Symphony Audition
31:38 Full Time Orchestra Life
32:14 Memorable Performances
34:33 Teaching
36:45 Friendship with Kerson Leong
38:12 Biggest Difficulty in Musical Career
39:29 Hobbies Outside of Music
41:12 Practice Tip of the Week - Jaewon
43:34 Recording Recommendation of the Week - Jaewon
31 Jul 2026
Charles Berofsky - A Musical Soliloquy 25
Hosted by Steven Song 🙂
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction and Welcome
0:48 Musical Beginnings
2:47 Piano Teachers
7:59 Not Looking at the Keyboard
8:44 Parents as Musicians
10:20 Eastman School of Music
12:37 New England Conservatory
13:36 Munich Conservatory
15:07 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Fellowship
18:06 Summer Music Festivals
20:00 Chamber Music Career
20:58 Sightreading
21:36 Playing Tchaikovsky Piano Trio together
22:42 Berofsky Piano Quartet
23:52 Difficulties of Playing Piano
25:09 Practicing Amount
27:25 What Makes Piano Difficult
28:32 Violinist and Pianist Difficulties
29:43 Steven changing Bow Grip at Music Academy of the West
30:53 Different Approaches to Piano Playing
36:36 Future of Classical Music
40:52 Career Aspirations
42:44 Career Advice
43:43 Early Inspirations
45:08 Memorable Performances and Musical Breakthroughs
46:20 Being Your Own Best Teacher
50:14 How Music Theory, and Improvisation Help Performance
54:21 Learning New Music
56:46 Practice Tip of the Week - Charles
1:00:09 Recording Recommendation of the Week - Charles
1:02:44 Bach and Schumann
1:04:05 Juilliard DMA with Robert McDonald
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