<p>Aychoi84:</p>
<p>Most of the best teachers are very busy and some are much better performers and teachers than they are organizers or communicators. I have heard of one major teacher accidentally triple booking themselves for lessons with prospective students (and the teacher did manage fit all three in for a lesson). </p>
<p>Some teachers just simply don’t respond to email. In fields other than music, I find that is the case, as well. Many older people are not terribly comfortable with technology and find that it takes an enormous amount of their time and energy to respond to everyone that emails them. We too have sent many emails that have not received responses. More maddeningly, many of ours were sent to admissions offices where you would hope that one of the skills people would have is the ability to respond to emails! Even when we have gotten email responses from some teachers, they have often been somewhat erratic (for example, three weeks later; or do not respond to the question asked at all). Frustrating at times, but not caused by anything that you or we have done.</p>
<p>NEC is a wonderful place for violin, so you are fortunate to have that option and are wise to have taken advantage of it. Best of luck there.</p>