Finn daigh
private music instructor and performer
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Ferndale, MI
near Woodward Heights/Hilton
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Learning with Finn Daigh
The Finn Daigh method is one designed to be adaptive to each student. It emphasizes a focus on listening, ear training, consistency, and independence in learning. Each student will be equipped with the traditional techniques and skills to play their instrument to their fullest capability, but will also be equipped with the mental and emotional tools that are unavoidably required to study the violin.
Finn takes importance in fostering a creative and collaborative environment for their students: focusing on connection and expression instead of the toxic modern day obsession with competition. This approach is how students can learn to deeply find the purpose in their playing, and through this, can accept inevitable failures, create repairs, and find success in moving forward with their education and creativity.
Creativity is innate in every student of every age. Not only is it innate, it is essential to our very existence. What do we do when we are in need of a cure to monotony? When we need a path for our exitement? Or an answer for our saddness? Amongst our own humanity, our intelligence, our experiences, lies the timeless desire to be heard. The answer to these qualms is not joy, it is expression.
Teaching and Performing Experience
Classical Training
Non-Classical Training
Finn has a bachelors of music, specializing in violin performance from Wayne State University.
There, they studied under the tutelage of assistant concert-master to the Detroit Opera Theater, Dr Laura Roelofs, as well as the assistant concert-master to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Mr Hai-xin Wu. After graduation, Finn went on to study further educational and playing methods with Dr. Stephanie Allen. Her symphonic experience includes performing with the Michigan Philharmonic, under the direction of Nan Harrison Washburn, and the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Kypros Markou. They have also played in numerous string quartets, chamber ensembles, and duos performing for private events.
Finn took the side road almost immediately upon picking up the violin. Though she studied classically from the beginning, Finn has always taken a preference to playing by ear, playing with friends, learning new styles, and learning new ways to learn. With experience in folk, country, bluegrass, blues, rock, celtic, punk, alternative, noise etc, Finn has performed as a session musician on albums, music videos, and on stage with many bands. Some of her favorite experiences include Warped Tour, the Michigan Renaissance Festival, and touring with bands.
Teaching Experience
Finn started teaching in 2005 through their high school. After graduating, they started teaching professionally with music stores in 2009. After years of studying various teaching styles, playing with numerous musicians of many genres and instruments, and undertaking the beginnings of her own method book, Finn branched off in 2023 and began her own small, independent business as a private teaching studio located in Ferndale, MI.
Finn has developed a teaching style that is deeply rooted in the timeless training of the pedagogues that preceded them. Notably, the teachers that directly preceded, including Sally O'Reilly and Ivan Galamian, as well as Carl Flesch and Fritz Kreisler. Finn also takes on direct inspiration from other pedagogues and musicians that she has studied and admired, most notably the practices and ideologies of Dorothy Delay and Victor Wooten.