Violist and music professor, Ettore Causa: "So I know how much mental power you also need in order to, beside the fact that everything is not going right, you have to believe: 'Ok, I'm going to make it. I don't know when, but it's going to work.' So I know how that feels. I remember it so vividly. In that way I'm good to tell that to students. I say: 'Look, I know it's depressing. I know you feel that this is too much, but if I'm here, you can do it too.' That's my point of view.

Hear more about how Ettore's love for the viola, performing and how he inspires his students at Yale and also internationally during his masterclasses