My violin teacher always found a pianist for me whenever I played a recital, contest, or master class. His wife was a piano professor at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and taught accompanying, so she supplied him with gifted pianists. I did not fully appreciate this until the seventh grade, when I had one of the music teachers in my school accompany me on one of the Rode concertos. She pounded out the beat for me, as if I had not learned the piece