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ArticleSenior Lecturer in Violin – The University of Queensland, Australia
This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading School of Music as Senior Lecturer in Violin. The position is designed for an established violinist to build on their record of achievement in teaching, performance, research, service and engagement at a world top-50 university. At this level the incumbent may ...
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Article‘I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else in the world’ - Barbara Hannigan and her collaboration with the Emerson Quartet
Soprano Barbara Hannigan talks to The Strad about her final collaboration with the Emerson Quartet in their new CD Infinite Voyage
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Article‘Composer fun is the best fun!’ - Post-festival Q&A with the Smorgaschord festival directors
The cellist and composer reflect on their festival’s third edition
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Article‘Unusualness in all its splendour’: Q&A with the Smorgaschord festival directors
The three-year-old festival is dedicated to pushing boundaries, explain Eliza Millett and Sebastian Black
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ArticleHow Nicolò Amati’s ‘Romanov’ viola survived its own turbulent history
An instrument of archaic charm and bold dimensions, the 1677 ‘Romanov’ Nicolò Amati viola harks back to the tenor violas made a century before by Nicolò’s grandfather Andrea.
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Article‘My whole person was struck by extraordinary tones’: G.B. Viotti on the ‘Ranz des Vaches’
In the March 2023 issue, violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved discusses his love for this short piece by Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824).
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ArticleMaking Matters: Off-Beat Violins
Luthier Andrew Carruthers demonstrates the sound quality of his ’X’ and ‘O’ violins, the ‘Tabolin’ and the ‘Ripple cello’
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Article‘It was like the earth moved beneath me’ - violinist Leonidas Kavakos on playing the ’Willemotte’ Stradivari
Kavakos describes his first encounter with the 1734 violin, made when Antonio Stradivari was 90 years old
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Article2022-23 Tianjin Juilliard Season Highlights
Tianjin Juilliard’s 2022-23 season opened in September with a performance led by Ken Lam,
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ArticleInterview with Ken Lam: A New Chapter for the Tianjin Juilliard Orchestra
Ken Lam is our inaugural director of orchestral studies and resident conductor of the Tianjin Juilliard Orchestra
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ArticleCellist Steven Isserlis on using vibrato to improve phrasing
Steven Isserlis gives a cello masterclass on Schumann's Fantasiestücke op.73, recorded at the International Musicians' Seminar, Prussia Cove. The student is Ani Kalayjian
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ArticleCellist David Finckel on vibrato
Cellist David Finckel introduces the subject of vibrato as part of a series of video demonstrations on cello technique. Vibrato, he says, 'connects the listener to the player's innermost feelings about the music. It should be something that reinforces the music, not something that is painted on top ...
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ArticleTechnique: How to vary and enhance your cello pizzicato
Soloist and chamber musician Christoph Richter talks about good pizz technique with particular attention to the range of sound demanded by Debussy's Cello Sonata. From The Strad's November 2015 issue
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ArticleViolinist Ray Chen gives left-hand pizzicato lesson
Violinist Ray Chen gives a video lesson on mastering left-hand pizzicato, as demonstrated in Paganini's Caprice no.24.
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ArticleVictoria Chiang demonstrates shifting exercises for viola
'You have to be able to move freely without your shoulder getting in the way' Peabody Institute of Music viola professor Victoria Chiang helps a student with shifting exercises during a National Philharmonic Masterclass in 2013. Explore more Technique like this in The Strad Playing Hub
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ArticleDeconstructing the Andrea Amati ‘King’ cello
In an article from June 2015, Matthew Zeller examines five centuries of alterations made to the world’s oldest cello, housed at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota, and asks what they reveal about the evolution and development of the standard cello form
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ArticleViolist Tabea Zimmermann on the pressure of competitions
The German musician speaks to Amanda Holloway about launching her own career with competition wins, and about her attitude to her students entering contests today
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ArticleProfessor of Cello (Successor to Antonio Meneses)
Bern Academy of the Arts offers a chair in Cello, approx.12 hours weekly, teaching BA and MA courses and chamber music. Candidates must have teaching experience on higher education level and be active on the international music circuit. Start: September 2023 with occasional dates in Bern before then. For more ...
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ArticleNetherlands Philharmonic Orchestra appoints new concertmaster
Violinist Ionel Manciu has been announced as first concertmaster of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra