Liya Petrova’s approach to learning the Carl Nielsens Violin Concerto was rather untraditional. In her case, the key to learning it was research rather than practice.

A lot of time passed between my buying the score and actually beginnin to practice. Instead I read everything I could find about Carl Nielsen and the work. After that I studied the score for ages before I finally picked up my violin to practice it”, Liya Petrova tells us about her approach to Nielsen’s score.

Watch Liya Petrova talking about her approach to the Carl Nielsen Violin Concerto