With a strong commitment to education, Viola player Valérie Bime-Apparailly (born in 1962 in Bordeaux) has written many beginner methods for string instruments, to universal acclaim. The first volume of themethod Je Débute Le Violon, aimed at children aged between 5 and 12, met with such success among budding musicians and their teachers alike, it simply had to be extended.

That has now been takencare of, with the publication of Volu...