Ray Chen - superstar violinist wants you to practice

About this episode

Violinist Ray Chen discusses his experiences and insights on performance and practice while performing live.

Violinist and social media guru Ray Chen wraps up this season of Classical Music Happy Hour with an in-studio live performance. He chats with Manny about video games, performance anxiety, and his practice app Tonic. In our game, he joins Manny in our game called Is It a Composer or Is it Cheese?

People in this episode

Host: Manny

Guest: Ray Chen

Topics covered

• violin performance
• social media
• practice techniques
• video games
• performance anxiety
• music games

Keywords

• Ray Chen
• violinist
• performance anxiety
• Tonic app
• music games
• social media

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tonic

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