Violin Diploma Examination Specialist

VIOLIN LESSONS

MASTERCLASSES

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THE BOOK

"Violin Diploma Technique: Principles of Talent" is based on my extensive experience as a diploma examiner. It defines five intuitive techniques that only the most successful candidates possess. Without them in some degree, candidates will plateau at grade levels. These techniques, once defined, are easily recognisable and address the most urgent question asked of examiners: "How can students pass diploma examinations?" 

EVAN ELSLEY (bio link)

I am a diploma examiner, university violin lecturer, performer, adjudicator, and author. 

PARENTS

Learning the violin is expensive and time consuming. Historically, traditional pedagogy includes trial and error, and often changing teachers. Most students will not progress past the grade levels. 

• Diploma attempts are expensive.
• Re-sits undermine confidence.
• Trial and error wastes time.

MUSIC DEPARTMENTS

Music departments regularly struggle with a lack of consistent linear progress in their results from one year to the next. To remedy this situation, students do not need to be technically talented, just conscientious.

TURN PRACTICE INTO RESULTS (link)

These five techniques produce consistently high-level results at every stage of violin development by using a logically sequenced timeline. Accelerated progress for young students strengthens their future scholarship and diploma prospects. At the 2025 AMEB session, an eight year old obtained a 6th Grade Credit after learning for 18 months with one lesson a week. 

Time invested without progress is the most expensive mistake in violin education.

• Examiner-Level Structured Pedagogy (Limited Availability).

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Also available for reference at:

• NATIONAL LIBRARY of AUSTRALIA
• STATE LIBRARY of NSW