Joseph Conyers, assistant principal bassist of The Philadelphia Orchestra, hosts an episode of video highlights from master classes for string players. Noah Bendix-Balgley, first concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker, explains a passage from the first movement of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. Ludwig Quandt, the orchestra’s first principal cellist, also coaches a segment from the second movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Bassist Ödön Rácz from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra works through a selection from Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite.

Want to know more? Throughout the episode, Conyers will be responding to questions submitted on Facebook and YouTube.