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VideoEsther Yoo’s practice tips: chord pizzicato
Yoo shares how mimicking a guitar pick with the index finger and thumb can help violinists with strumming technique
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Premium ❘ ArticleSoundpost: Letters to the Editor September 2021
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: September 2021 issue
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FocusEsther Yoo’s instrument and bow
Read violinist Esther Yoo’s personal insights on the tools of her trade
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VideoPhysical and mental health: Artist Confidential with Esther Yoo featuring Miloš
’It’s a paradox, because we are normal human beings, but we are expected not to be normal human beings’ - Esther and Miloš chat about stigmas within the classical music world
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VideoArtist Confidential with Esther Yoo
Our August 2021 cover star Esther Yoo has launched the first episode of her video interview series, featuring cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan
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VideoViolinist Esther Yoo shares her first concert dresses
Our August issue cover star has been performing for most of her life. Here Esther Yoo shows her followers some very small dresses
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FocusEsther Yoo: ‘I try to share my journey so that people are aware of the challenges, not just the fancy end product’
Our August issue cover star Esther Yoo illustrates how she uses social media to share her musical knowledge and dispel the mystique of an international concert career
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Focus‘We aren’t going back to how it was’ - Esther Yoo on being a musician during the pandemic
In this extract from the August 2021 issue, Esther Yoo shares her experience of the sudden silence brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic and how her positive attitude helped her through dark times
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VideoEsther Yoo’s Violin Technique Tips: High Positions on the E-String
Filmed in South Korea, this video - the latest in the American violinist’s series of practice tutorials - walks us through Yoo’s tips on what to do with ‘pesky high E-string passages’.
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VideoEsther Yoo’s Practice Tips: Ricochet (Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto)
Launching a mini-series of video tutorials, the American violinist shares her practice tips on perfecting the ricochet in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
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Focus10 ways to motivate yourself to practise during lockdown
The 25-year-old American violinist Esther Yoo shares her tips on getting the get up and go to practise even during a lockdown
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ReviewZ.E.N. Trio: works by Brahms and Dvořák
Zhang Zuo, Esther Yoo and Narek Hakhnazaryan in an exploration of Zen and the art of chamber trios
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Julia Fischer, Leonidas Kavakos, Sigiswald Kuijken to perform in Southbank Centre's 2013–14 season
Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly today launched the London venue’s 2013–14 season, sounding alarm about developments in England’s cultural landscape. Referring to the government’s proposed English Baccalaureate qualifications, which leave music off the core areas of school study, she said: ‘We should be concerned that classical music may not ...