Hello, I have a 10 year old daughter who has played about 3 years and her passion for violin has been growing day by day. She has been wanting to be a violinist since year 1 and because both my wife and I are not musicians, we are not sure when we should move up her instructor to a professor level.
For some background reference, my daughter is attending a local conservatory (~ 100 music students) and has been under the director of string department for about a year.
She has won couple of local competitions and we are aiming for international competitions next few years.
Assuming that our daughter is still passionate by age 12~13, we would love to take some trial lesson from professor and enter the studio. Is it ideal to just wait until teacher brings up the topic or should we try to give our teacher a hint?
I'm asking because the transition to our current teacher hasn't been very smooth so I don't want to make same mistake since the teacher community is very small.