Sound Innovations for Orchestra

Teachers keep coming back to Bob Phillips' Sound Innovations for String Orchestra, Book 2 across all four string parts, with the violin book leading adoption year after year. The Sound Development series at intermediate and advanced levels gives you focused technical work without disrupting your rehearsal flow. Creative Warm-Ups by Phillips offers structured but flexible material for that critical opening ten minutes of rehearsal.

Bob Phillips brings over 25 years of pedagogical innovation to string education, with expertise in large group teaching and stylistic variety. His Sound Innovations series across all six levels has become a classroom standard, shaped by his direct experience training teachers and conducting student ensembles. Peter Boonshaft earned the George M. Parks Award for Leadership in Music Education and serves as Director of Education for Jupiter Band Instruments. Beyond his work here, his weekly blog for music educators and his national clinician schedule reflect his commitment to addressing real problems teachers face. Kirk Moss brings academic rigor alongside classroom experience as Vice Provost at University of Northwestern and a past national president of the American String Teachers Association. His coauthorship of the Sound Innovations series method books draws on decades of leadership in string education, including his five chairmanships of the ASTA National Orchestra Festival.