Christian Howes: Prodigy to Prison to Violin Virtuoso
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2013
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After finding him accidentally on youtube providing mimic instruction, I stumbled into this interview. Really deep thinker, and truly fascinating. But more importantly, simply a wonderful person.
"what an incredible re-frame, instead of asking people to buy my art, ask them to provide me the opportunity to serve", "Business opportunity is what generates artistic expression, not the other way around.". Thank you for the insight and inspiration Christian. I admire and respect you, great job man!
Could write paragraphs on this interview .So good . I watch Chris on You Tube and so much more of what he offers us . THANK YOU BOTH GENTELMAN .
truely inspiring.i just found him 2 days ago...and i instantly became better since watching him teach the fiddle
Loved this interview. 'Inspiring' is an over used word. This guy actually deserves the title.
What a beautiful story! Thank you, Jonathan Fields, for the way you handled this interview with this respected and loving man, Christian Howes! I salute you both! Life does not come easy and we as the listeners were privileged to hear a true story and felt a deep respect for this great jazz violin player! Thank you for being so honest and sincere in you guys’s talking. 👏👏🎻🎻
A wonderful interview -thank you to both of you -thank you for the pertinent questions, for the honesty in answering, the sharing of this journey with us.
Thank You 🙏🙏
I love Christian Howes and his music 🌿💜🌿
What an inspiring story! Thank you!!!
My daughter started learning violin with her 6th birthday present, but progressed not being pushed by us parents, instead inspired by seeing her elder sister play, who also taught her violin at first. She wanted to learn new pieces each week, smiling and tapping her feet with good intonation and rhythm already from having started learning piano from myself at age four and a half. The risk is that kids are being taught boring pieces or taught in a boring way, in which case they are likely to lose interest. She wants to play jazz, rock, blues etc, so I have bought her an electric violin for her 9th birthday and switched her to ABRSM Grade 5 Jazz Piano.
What an incredible interview. As a jazz bassist, this really spoke to me and I want to say thank you to Christian Howes for sharing his story.
thank you Austin!
Austin Wilson n
Great interview , love this statement . You are not ready till you have done it! How true . Thanks for your insight .
This was a great interview. Chris made a difference in my life as a teacher and violinist this summer. I joined his Creative Strings workshop. I appreciate him as a music and a teacher. He inspires me to do my best.
I have long admired this phenomenal jazz violinist. Here,cone to find out his utterly humble and revealing admission of the balance of discipline with his own “demons” early in life that led him down a path of substance abuse and prison life for years--and yet he turned it all around and reformed himself to become the master of jazz and rock that he is. Awe-inspiring. I admire him all the more.
Congratulations Christian for overcoming your early-life issue and becoming the fine musician that you are and more importantly, the fine human and role model for folks trying to recover their life issues.
I have been a Fiddle Hell workshop instructor for ten years, and was fortunate to attend your F.H. Workshop in 2015. It was excellent!! I look forward to being in a musical setting with you again.
Jonathan: Sad to say you conducted a very poor interview. You were very fortunate that Christian overcame your lack of preparation, and your interjecting your feelings, rather than asking open-ended questions, etc. Christian knew what the audience wanted to know and led you there.
Great interview with a great musician; thank you for posting it!
Great experience. Thanks for the program and the upload. Great musician.
What a remarkable interview this is! I love hearing about your journey! I hope this interview will be heard by all that will benefit.
I can relate to parts of the experiences during the mid-to late teen years and early 20s.
Without adult mentors, or us having ears open to listening, there are so many pitfalls to derail a musician playing out in halls, clubs and dives.
Getting out there to play takes a lot of courage and ambition, and satisfied the need for gainful employment.
Thank you for sharing!
Wonderful interview
i knew Chris for a couple of years; we were colleagues in the "local professional orchestra" as he calls it. i knew he was into some crazy stuff then, but it was still a surprise when the drug bust happened. what frustrated me was that he was playing better than me, yet it seemed like he hardly practiced. i think there's more to it than just good nurturing; you have to have the talent, and he has a lot.
Lovely & sincerely open
Inspiring. Thanks for the reminders Chris!
Total respect for this man for several reasons. Transparency, owning mistakes, realizing that others in the same position as him would not fair as well for being viewed differently by the systematic ways people groups are viewed worldwide (without using the words, I believe he is well aware that things may have gone quite differently for him if he were of Afro decent), learning and using what is used from negative experiences, honoring his parents publicly, using what God has given him to serve others, etc. Til this day, I have always tried to fulfill a need already there instead of attempting to create a need to serve my own desires. His worldview to offer use his talent to serve others in a Godly viewpoint. "Will you give me the opportunity to serve you," is a great statement. Most recently, someone has systematically shut the door of giving myself and my husband to serve others with our gift, and only thinks she got away with it. God uses even situation when you've done nothing wrong, yet penalized for it within a system put together by people, for His purpose when all is said and done. So we seek (and have found) other ways to serve others with what God has given to us. Not just music though that is a big part of it, but just who we are: Intelligent, God loving people folks. Thanks for sharing your story, Christian Howes. LOVE your first name, btw :)
Such a remarkable personality. Very inspiring video
I studied with Christian Howes in London for a workshop on violin in 1996, and I never knew this history. It was a great workshop that was run by him and his family.
Awesome, fascinating story. Glad Chris made it and found success.
Great video! I feel very lucky to have met and learnt with Chris, he's an awesome guy and his talent and passion for inspiring and teaching others is equal to his amazing musical abilities! If you are a string player then definitely check out his Creative Strings Academy.
Inspirational! I enjoyed this!
So worth the time to watch! He should be speaking at universities.
OMG!
How wonderful!
Very Cool and interesting interview
Wow!!!Congratulations God Bless you😍🙏🌹🌺💖
You're an artist!!!
I love this guy 💕💕💕🌹
Thanks for this. 😊
Amazing story.
Dude....no wonder why your playing has a lot to say! Im touched. Your journey was difficult but really I think you are a totally complete person.
wow a really bright guy great converssation
Christian is so clear.....so many good statments of his intent, or drive were talked about. I am touched by Christian's abiity to see his life with such clarity, especially his sensitivity towards his parents. To come through an incarceration, and still be so high functioning speaks volumes about his focus, and intensity. I wish him well, and hope to hear him play live somewhere, somehow. Thank you for allowing his story to come through in this interview.
Wow AMAZiNG WHAT a LEGEND 😎GUY🎻
This helped me so much. Ima try to serve a need instead of just selling my album. :) thanks
Who are the other jazz violinists that are in his class? He's the best I have heard.
Chris IS amazing - but others are out there in his class include Jason Anick, Evan Price, Zach Brock, Sara Caswell, Scott Tixier, Regina Carter, Mads Tolling, Jean-Luc Ponty, Didier Lockwood (who passed away to early 2years ago), Florin Niculescu, Rob Lakatos, Mark Feldman, Jenny Scheinman, I could goo on - but ALL of these listed, while not better than Christian ARE definitely in his 'class'. CHECK THEM OUT!
@@MusicKit Thanks.
“Fear of being self promoting and taking the center stage”
Hes so honest and humble Didnt have to do this to mention his bad days Look s like the interviewer is taking plleasure from his passing bad time
Laws are harsh in America...4yrs in prison for a first time offender/ honor student et.. for a minor drug charge - geeze! dude, move to Canada.....drug charges are a slap on the wrist..
my dude!! hahaha
The wisdom of this world is foolishness to God we have to have faith in God
I agree but in what context are you making your assertion?
@@curiousgeorge555 Jesus said, whoever seeks to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake shall find it. Jesus said blessed are you poor but woe to those who are rich now. Christian is successful now and certainly makes good music but "what would it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?"
Felicia Day interview brought me here.
This is a fucking interesting interview.
It's also flat out interesting.
Them the brakes
Kevin James, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Jim Belushi, even Bill Maher. His facial similarity to these guys is almost distracting. But meaningful interview!
you refer to prison too often jealous of him
...So, "the world"....is America...??
So...Confused?
@@dmcmac9619 ...who isn't confused when they look at America these days?
Love this bloke but in my humble opinion talent is not dished out equally no way