Welcome to
Michael Kimber’s
VIOLA HOMEPAGE
and
Please visit links below for information about:
• music for viola (and other instruments, too) by Michael Kimber,
a 2010 recipient of the American Viola Society’s Founders Award
in recognition of his compositions for viola
• solos, duets and more, from elementary through advanced levels
• Kimber’s widely adopted Scales, Arpeggios, and Double Stops
for viola and violin
• the internationally famous poly-pad shoulder rest for violin and viola
“secure, comfortable support with a shoulder pad you almost don’t feel!”
Now in its 22nd year, the poly-pad has found its way to every state in the
U.S. and to over twenty foreign countries and has been enthusiastically
adopted as the shoulder rest of first choice by many teachers, who praise
it for encouraging good playing posture in their students.
The poly-pad comes in six sizes, from XL for players looking for a
very high shoulder rest to the tiny lily-pad for the smallest violins.
It is available in two colors: traditional charcoal and slightly firmer cool blue!
Click on HOW TO ORDER to find out about any special offers
on Dr. Kimber’s music or poly-pads, or simply send an e-mail to
kimbermichael@qwest.net.
• Michael Kimber, violist and composer
• Biography
• Recent and Upcoming Performances
• “research” on one of Dr. Kimber’s most illustrious (???)
“ancestors”: Ludwig Wolfgang von Kimber, featuring
his newly unearthed Quartettino for oboe and strings!
• other items of interest to string players, including:
• The Practice Bow and The Fingerboard,
ingenious practice aids from violist Kathryn Plummer
• insights into melodic and harmonic intonation (.pdf)
• Michael Kimber’s 43-page DMA lecture recital paper (.pdf, 3.7 MB),
Intonation Variables in the Performance of Twelve-Tone Music
• The one-page abstract of Kimber’s DMA lecture recital paper (.pdf)
Created February 10, 1998. Updated May 10, 2012.
