Violin Lessons, Masterclasses & Violin Diploma Technique Book

Evan Elsley Violin Technique for Diploma Exams by a Diploma Examiner, University Violin Lecturer, Adjudicator & Performer. Book Teaser Pages 
Evan Elsley Violin Technique for Diploma Exams by a Diploma Examiner, University Violin Lecturer, Adjudicator & Performer. Book Teaser Pages 
Evan Elsley Violin Technique for Diploma Exams by a Diploma Examiner, University Violin Lecturer, Adjudicator & Performer. Book Teaser Pages 

Diploma Examiner

University Violin Lecturer

Eisteddfod Adjudicator

Talent Research

Performer

VIOLIN LESSONS

MASTERCLASSES

AND

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)

Traditional violin pedagogy creates great success for the few. This website focusses on the technical problems that disadvantage the majority.

PARENTS

Learning the violin is expensive and time consuming. Historically, traditional pedagogy includes trial and error, and often changing teachers.

Diploma attempts are expensive.
Re-sits undermine confidence.
Trial and error wastes time.
Most students will not progress past the grade levels.

MUSIC DEPARTMENTS

Music departments regularly struggle with a lack of consistent linear progress in their results from one year to the next. This creates ongoing administration problems and parental complaints that seem unresolvable.

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

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.