(classical music)
-: We had the violinist from San Francisco Symphony join us
and lead a chamber music masterclass with students.
-: What do you think you would like
to have different when you're playing?
-: Usually you don't get opportunities like this.
I remember when I was growing up playing,
I really had no chance to get good feedback.
So, this is a really great opportunity.
-: You've gotta bring this piece to life a little bit more.
-: It's pretty incredible that we had
one of the Marsalis brothers come here
even a couple weeks ago, followed right by
one of the best symphonies on earth is pretty incredible,
and that the Lied Center can do all this
for the city, I think it's pretty amazing.
(classical music)
(percussive music)
(humming)
(percussive music)
-: Everything after that is a little bit backed off.
-: Gotcha.
-: One of the musicians, the percussionist,
has local ties here to Nebraska.
He actually reached out to us and said, in particular,
that he wanted to lead a masterclass with students.
(tambourine clanging)
-: I was born in Beatrice.
Still to this day a diehard Cornhusker fan, go Big Red.
Really surreal for me to come back here
and be on campus, finally, in an official capacity,
and get to play at the Lied Center tonight.
(percussive music)
Well, I teach a lot.
In the Bay Area, I teach at the Aspen Festival,
and I teach in Switzerland every summer.
But this has a more emotional meaning to me,
because I didn't even know I could do what I'm doing
professionally when I was a senior in high school.
And so, I want to show that it's possible for anyone
to go this path if they really want to.
-: You know, it's a great chance to get some rep out,
and hear a professional's opinion on the rep,
but also just to hear his philosophy
of music and how he handled things
when he was a student and a professional.
-: When I'm on a panel, and when there's people behind
this very intimidating screen in an audition,
you can sure as heck believe people
are rooting for you, not against you.
The Lied Center for the Performing Arts
is a great program here, from what I can see.
I know some of my other colleagues
were doing a panel speech.
-: When I was in fourth grade, I wasn't good at sports,
but I was really good at trombone,
and it was so good to be good at something
and to receive recognition from the other kids at my school.
-: It's true, when you can look out into an audience
at the end of Mahler Two, and people are ugly crying.
-: Yeah.
(laughing)
-: It's great.
-: It's a total treat for me, especially as one of
the younger members of the orchestra, to speak to students,
because I was sitting in those exact chairs
about, what feels like, 10 minutes ago.
And I just hope that anything that I've experienced
since leaving college can be useful to them
as they figure out their paths in music.
-: It was just so amazing that there's this box of wood
under your chin that you can make noises on
and you actually get to kind of correspond
over hundreds of years with J.S. Bach.
-: The people that they bring in always have
a interesting perspective that I haven't
considered before, studying an instrument.
And I always learn a lot from the people that they bring.
-: Yeah, I couldn't thank the Lied Center enough
for this opportunity, and I'm really
looking forward to playing here tonight.
(camera clicking)
(laughing)
Awesome.