<p>What some call a T.A. - others call a Teacher. Case in point along the lines of N8Ma’s post re Robert and Nicholas Mann - by the way, BOTH tops in my estimation - violinist Joan Kwuon. While at Juilliard, “teaching assistant” to husband, Joel Smirnoff. When at CIM, faculty member, studio teacher. And - again echoing N8Ma - I know many, many students of Galamian and Delay who didn’t ask for their $$$ back or consider themselves slighted in the least when some lessons (etudes, prep work, scales, etc) were with teaching assistants. It’s rather more like the old art studio system (think middle ages) of master shop with assistants and pupils.</p>
<p>By the way, Musicprnt, although I know you wrote in jest, some of us didn’t find Galamian an “sob”. </p>
<p>Off my rant, apologies. For everyone looking - it is certainly a good idea to be clear about the studio instructor policies. Questions about who is teaching and how frequent are lessons with “main” instructor should be asked when there is any concern/confusion.</p>