Just in: 4 in 5 violin parents don’t play the violin
mainPress release from the 2016 Menuhin competition:
The first MENUHIN COMPETITION SURVEY reveals that 82% of the entrants’ parents do not play the violin, with over 45% of the parents never having played any musical instrument. 66% of all the applicants are female and 28% of those who applied do not own their own violin. Another interesting result was that over 50% of the Juniors (under 16s) began to learn the violin under the age of 5.
Full survey here.
Revealing, or just depressing?
But are of Asian descent…… ; D
…gay and Jewish.
It would be interesting to discover whether they be Asian or Western, how many of these poor brain washed kids are being used as trained monkeys to gratify ( $$) ambitious parents,teachers.
What is interesting here is that the concept is directly related to competitions. What about those who did not take that route for a career? Bell, Hahn, Mutter, Capucon, Midori and Jansen come to mind. And of those, only a couple had a parent who played the violin. Perhaps it is more about the realization that a child has something special and gets the support of the parent.