Death of star violin teacher, 98
mainThe violin educator Kató Havas died on the last day of 2018, at a Biblical age.
Raised in the Budapest of Bartok and Kodaly, she made a Carnegie Hall debut in 1938 and, while raising a family, developed a New Approach to Violin Players which, with Yehudi Menuhin’s endorsement, was translated into a dozen languages. She went on to address Stage Fright: Its Causes and Cures but her principal concern was player injury – how to protect people who play violin and viola from serious physical impairment.
She was a treasure to her profession.
Fantastic lady. Rest in peace!
A charlatan if there ever was
She taught a way of playing that is physically comfortable, based on gypsy technique. There’s nothing charlatan about that.
Every enlightened being who ever came to this earth to innovate and inspire has been mocked as a ‘charlatan’ by the pedestrian and the banal. . .
Most inspiring lady who gave me the confidence to believe in my playing and teaching and enjoy my career . Life changing course in Oxford Rip KH
Simon Scott – how disrespectful to make that type of comment on an obituary thread. It’s in very poor taste.
Dead or alive.
The truth is the truth
I, after surviving a nasty car accident in 1994, have Kato Havas to thank for helping me rebuild my life. I took up the violin again after 35 years or so and with her help now play the violin with a beautiful sound (not my comments, but those of other violinists). Doctors told me, after diagnosing moderate brain damage, that I would never work or be the same again.
This (with the help of my wife and Kato Havas),, I have proved to be incorrect.
Simon Scott have you ever attended a workshop of Kato’s in Oxford if so in what way did you not derive any benefit ?