San Carlos Home Town Days 05-17-09

Stanford Mall 03-29-09

Palo Alto Hills Country Club 12-14-08

Oakwood 12-08-08

2008-12-14

MPAEF Hoe Down

Mountain View Art & Wine Festival 9-7-08

Stinson Gala

Carmel Violin Retreat 2008

Chicago highlights

Next public performance: Stanford Shopping Center, December 5, 2009

Next public performance: San Carlos Home Town Days festival

Next public performance: Saturday, December 13, at 2:00PM

OPEN HOUSE for New Enrollment

Next public performance: Mountain View Art & Wine Festival

Carmel Retreat 2008 a success!

Prague Performance with Betty Haag's Magical Strings of Youth

A place for Dr. Chu to add that latest news relevant to the group

Wednesday, August 05, 2009 - Saturday, August 08, 2009
Workshop with Mrs. Betty Haag-Kuhnke
Studio9/22/2009 2:00:00 AM - 9/22/2009 4:00:00 AM
Parent Workshop presented by Positive Coaching Alliance
Studio9/4/2009 2:00:00 AM - 9/4/2009 4:00:00 AM
PARENT Q&A Session with Dr. Chu for Fall 2009
Studio12/5/2009 9:00:00 PM - 12/6/2009 12:00:00 AM
Stanford Shopping Center & Bloomingdales Holiday Concerts
Stanford Shopping Center12/8/2009 12:30:00 AM - 12/8/2009 1:30:00 AM
6th Annual Concert for Oakwood Community of the Sacred Heart Schools
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Holiday concerts – December 5, 2009
Please join us for TWO performances on Saturday, December 5, 2009, at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto. 1:00PM – Outside Nieman Marcus Clock Tower Plaza 3:00PM – Inside Bloomingdales in the Children’s Department, 2nd floor Twenty young violinists, ages 4 to 10, will perform classical and holiday music selections. Note: 10% of your purchases at Bloomingdales will be [...]
Happiness is…
Today I had one of those moments that reaffirmed my totally irrational love of trying to teach kids to play the violin. It only lasted a few minutes, but it didn’t matter. It happened after the last several days of my thinking about how I could expand the sound repertoire of my students’ musical environment, [...]
Ad art
What’s your intention? That’s what this brilliant ad from lululemon athletica asks us: It shows a yoga class in session, with a room full of people facing us and seated with crossed legs on yoga mats, hands in front of their hearts in prayer position. Everyone is meticulously dressed in lululemon-brand yoga gear, and all their spines [...]
A visit with an old friend
Last night I sat down at the piano in my studio for the first time in a long time. My mom likes to remind me that I studied piano for more years than I did violin, and it contributed as much if not more to my overall music appreciation. She’s right (grumble). But I never [...]
Follow Your Bliss
In northern California, they say there are two seasons – brown and green. Summer is brown and winter is green. This refers to the dryness of our summer months, when the foothills around the Bay turn wheat-colored and stay that way until the rain comes in January and February. I visited Napa Valley earlier this month [...]
Child Whisperer
I have to share this incredibly insightful post from Pam Slim, entitled “Valuable Coaching Advice Straight From The Horse’s Mouth (And Nose)”. In it, she talks about how her experience at a horse whisperer workshop taught her valuable lessons about her own parenting behaviors. I started my violin school five years ago, knowing that I would [...]
Dr. Chu’s Shoes – Part Two
I wrote a blog post in 2006 entitled “Dr. Chu’s Shoes”. I hadn’t read the post recently, but I thought about it this past week when I put on high heels for the first time since May. My teacher was visiting, and out of habit I felt the need to dress up a little extra [...]
Letter to Parents
NOTE: I’m sharing this letter, originally addressed to the parents in The Music Within Us program, publicly here, because it represents my deepest commitment to the service I hope to offer in this life. May you all find the courage to ask life’s most important questions: WHO are you? And HOW do you choose to [...]
Have you found your tribe?
Here are some excerpts from Seth Godin’s recent book called Tribes (pp. 66-69, emphasis added): Imagine two classrooms with similar teachers. One has fifteen students, the other, thirty-two. Which group gets a better education? All other things being equal, the smaller class will always do better. The teacher has more time to spend customizing the lesson to [...]
Keep listening
A friend of mine, who I’ll call Steven, lives in Shanghai. He may or may not be able to read this blog, depending on whether or not it’s a day when the Chinese government decides to block access to all blogs, YouTube, and foreign news media. I wonder what it must be like to get [...]

Recommended violin recordings 2005-2006.pdf


Wooden Pyramid of Success.pdf

Blog post on NYT Play as Self-Control Article
Nurture Shock - new science on modern parenting
Carol Dweck Growth Mindset website
Can the Right Kinds of Play Teach Self-Control?

Twitter / violindoc

Twitter / violindoc
Twitter updates from Lisa Chu / violindoc.
violindoc: "A vocation that is not mine, no matter how externally valued, does violence to the self." - Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
violindoc: "A vocation that is not mine, no matter how externally valued, does violence to the self." - Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
violindoc: "You have not grown old, and it is not too late / to dive into your increasing depths / where life calmly gives out its own secret." - Rilke
violindoc: "You have not grown old, and it is not too late / to dive into your increasing depths / where life calmly gives out its own secret." - Rilke
violindoc: "But what you love to see are faces / that do work and feel thirst" - Rainer Maria Rilke
violindoc: "But what you love to see are faces / that do work and feel thirst" - Rainer Maria Rilke
violindoc: "Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" - Mary Oliver, poet
violindoc: "Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" - Mary Oliver, poet
violindoc: @pamslim http://bit.ly/2jwXz4 Great post! Thanks for digging it up and reminding us all to come out from behind our curtains...
violindoc: @pamslim http://bit.ly/2jwXz4 Great post! Thanks for digging it up and reminding us all to come out from behind our curtains...
violindoc: Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. - Martha Graham
violindoc: Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. - Martha Graham
violindoc: So why do THE ARTS not appear in any of Google's 16 "big ideas" to change the world? http://bit.ly/RkvME (link via @srikumarsrao)
violindoc: So why do THE ARTS not appear in any of Google's 16 "big ideas" to change the world? http://bit.ly/RkvME (link via @srikumarsrao)
violindoc: RT @pamslim: a beautiful love letter to her 2-year-old daughter, and reminders about living a full life: http://bit.ly/DOkYX
violindoc: RT @pamslim: a beautiful love letter to her 2-year-old daughter, and reminders about living a full life: http://bit.ly/DOkYX
violindoc: RT @eekim: Moving post from @violindoc on listening and perseverance http://j.mp/wKsAt -- thanks for the link love!
violindoc: RT @eekim: Moving post from @violindoc on listening and perseverance http://j.mp/wKsAt -- thanks for the link love!
violindoc: "Something ignited in my soul, fever or unremembered wings, and I went my own way, deciphering that burning fire." -Pablo Neruda
violindoc: "Something ignited in my soul, fever or unremembered wings, and I went my own way, deciphering that burning fire." -Pablo Neruda
violindoc: "Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us." - Pema Chodron
violindoc: "Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us." - Pema Chodron
violindoc: RT @chrisguillebeau via @pamslim: Inspiring! 7 Life Lessons My 1-year-old Taught Me While Backpacking Abroad http://tinyurl.com/mu56b5
violindoc: RT @chrisguillebeau via @pamslim: Inspiring! 7 Life Lessons My 1-year-old Taught Me While Backpacking Abroad http://tinyurl.com/mu56b5
violindoc: "Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits." - Twyla Tharp http://tinyurl.com/le5m6b
violindoc: "Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits." - Twyla Tharp http://tinyurl.com/le5m6b
violindoc: "The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."-B. Kingsolver
violindoc: "The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."-B. Kingsolver
violindoc: RT @cmartell via @juliestuart: How focused training in the arts enhances brain function: http://tinyurl.com/pnjhob
violindoc: RT @cmartell via @juliestuart: How focused training in the arts enhances brain function: http://tinyurl.com/pnjhob
violindoc: "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself." - Kahlil Gibran
violindoc: "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself." - Kahlil Gibran
violindoc: "We leave the beckoning blank page of our life...empty because we don't have confidence in the...first sentence that confronts us." D. Whyte
violindoc: "We leave the beckoning blank page of our life...empty because we don't have confidence in the...first sentence that confronts us." D. Whyte
violindoc: "When you truly possess all you have been and done...you are fierce with reality." - Florida Scott-Maxwell
violindoc: "When you truly possess all you have been and done...you are fierce with reality." - Florida Scott-Maxwell
violindoc: "love...consists in this: that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke
violindoc: "love...consists in this: that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke
violindoc: "Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am." - Parker Palmer
violindoc: "Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am." - Parker Palmer

11/20/2009 2:13:45 PM