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ArticleZoë Keating's Sun Will Set - video
The video to Canadian cellist Zoë Keating's piece Sun Will Set, from her album One Cello x 16: Natoma.Read our cover interview with Zoë Keating in the January 'Fresh Thinking' issue of The Strad.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free ...
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ArticleZoë Keating performs Lost from her album Into The Trees
California-based cellist Zoë Keating performs her composition Lost from her album Into The Trees.Read our cover interview with Zoë Keating in the January 'Fresh Thinking' issue of The Strad.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial.
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ArticleDanish violin maker Lise Jørgensen dies aged 51
Danish violin maker and restorer Lise Ingeborg Jørgensen has died aged 51 following a long battle with cancer. Jørgensen became interested in violins while at school, and at 19 began training at the Pauli Merling Violin workshop in Copenhagen under the guidance of maker and restorer Poul ...
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ArticleViolist Maxim Rysanov performs Bach Cello Suites
Russian-born violist Maxim Rysanov performs Bach's Cello Suites nos. 1, 4 and 5. In the January issue, the viola player discusses practising Bach's Cello Suites arranged for viola. Click here to read about his detailed warm-up regimen. Rysanov's recording of Bach's Cello Suites nos. 2, 3 ...
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ArticleAaron Rosand
Acclaimed for his performances of romantic repertoire and his sweet tone, the American violinist and pedagogue Aaron Rosand has recorded prolifically and appeared with many major orchestras all over the world. He helped to lead the Romantic Revival in the 1960s, often performing forgotten works at Butler ...
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ArticleString appointments at London's Royal Academy of Music
Dominic Seldis, Giovanni Guzzo and Richard Ireland to join in 2014
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ArticleAlina Ibragimova
The Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova launched her career at the age of six, playing in the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Four years later, her family moved to England, where she completed her education, winning the London Symphony Orchestra Music Scholarship in 2002. A former member of the BBC ...
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ArticleAlisa Weilerstein
Often likened to the prodigy Jacqueline du Pré, American cellist Alisa Weilerstein made her debut, aged 13, playing Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme with the Cleveland Orchestra. Since then she has performed as soloist with several major symphony orchestras around the world, while also remaining an ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter
Exempted from school to dedicate herself full-time to music, German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter was invited by conductor Herbert von Karajan to perform with the Berlin Philharmonic aged 13. By now she has played all over the world, with practically every major symphony orchestra. Although she is ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata
12 cover stars from The Strad 2013 January Félix Lajkó – the boundary-busting horse-whispering fiddler from Hungary February Alisa Weilerstein – Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations March the Calder Quartet – Beethoven's String Quartet op.95 April Christian Tetzlaff – Mozart Violin Concerto no.4 May ...
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ArticleAugustin Hadelich
Aged 15 in 1999, German violinist Augustin Hadelich stopped playing for almost a year after a fire on his family's farm severely burned his upper body. Nevertheless, he managed to resume his solo career, going on to win gold medal at the 2006 Violin Competition of Indianopolis. ...
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ArticleRachel Barton Pine
©Lisa Marie Mazzucco Born in Chicago, the American violinist Rachel Barton Pine debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 10. Despite a serious injury on a train in her twenties, which forced her to take a two-year career break, Pine has since performed with ...
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ArticleYuri Bashmet
The Russian violinist, violist and conductor Yuri Bashmet has steadily forged a reputation as a bold contemporary artist, unafraid of risk-taking. A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Vadim Borisovsky and Fyodor Druzhinin, he was the first violist to perform a solo recital in ...
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ArticleLisa Batiashvili
A student of Ana Chumachenko and Mark Lubotski, Lisa Batiashvili gained international recognition at age 16 as the youngest-ever competitor in the Sibelius Competition. The Georgian violinist has collaborated in chamber music and concerto performances with cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Steven Osborne and in 2006 premiered ...
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ArticleJoshua Bell
The American violinist Joshua Bell began his musical education by attempting to pluck out music on stretched-out rubber bands. Soon afterwards, aged four, he started violin lessons. Taught by pedagogues including Donna Bricht, Mimi Zweig and Josef Gingold, he made his first major professional appearance, aged ...
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ArticleNicola Benedetti
Nicola Benedetti's success from a young age has made her one of the most high-profile violinists in the world today. Born to a half-Scottish, half-Italian mother and an Italian father, Benedetti was brought up in West Kilbride, Scotland. She started the violin aged five and received instruction ...
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ArticleBernard Greenhouse
One of the very few long term students of Pablo Casals, the American cellist Bernard Greenhouse initially pursued a solo career for twelve years. Today, however, he is best remembered as one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio, with whom he played between 1955 ...
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ArticleLeon Bosch
Born in Cape Town, but now a British citizen, Leon Bosch graduated from the University of Cape Town before continuing his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He made his London solo debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1984 and has since appeared ...
