Ep. 9: Simone Porter on Attention as Prayer

Welcome to Practice Room Breaks, an artist interview series presented by IMSLP! Today we are joined by internationally renown violinist Simone Porter! TIME STAMPS: 00:49 - Simone introduction 02:05 - How did you start? 03:16 - Audience Questions: Performance Anxiety Tips, Comfort on Stage 06:32 - Being Transported on Stage 07:37 - Unexpected Moments on Stage that Taught You Something 09:21 - Piece that Changed How You Thought About Music 11:30 - Finding Inspiration After Burnout 12:58 - Books/Movies/Other Art Forms Feeding Your Inspiration 15:06 - Debut Album and Attention As Prayer 16:48 - Intertwining Renaissance with Contemporary - How? 19:36 - Heinrich Biber's Passacaglia - Description and Journey 22:02 - Performance of Excerpt from Biber's Passacaglia by Simone Porter 23:00 - One More Audience Question! Fighting a Piccolo? More about Simone: https://www.simoneporterviolin.com/ Purchase her debut album, ad tendo, here: https://www.simoneporterviolin.com/album Score to the Manuscript of Biber's Passacaglia on IMSLP: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/us...