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ArticleFernando Grillo in performance
Double bassist Fernando Grillo, who died on 26 July aged 67, performs two of his own works: Taiacis (1981/82) and Gstüss (1975).
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ArticleArgentina's first stringed-instrument gallery set for opening
A museum in Buenos Aires is to open a new permanent exhibition hall dedicated to stringed instruments in October. Officials at the Isaac Fernández Blanco Museum of Spanish–American Art believe that the new gallery will be the first such exhibition space in Argentina. Among the instruments to be displayed is ...
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ArticleViolinist, 17, wins Schleswig-Holstein competition
Munich-based violinist Louise Wehr has won the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s competition for young musicians, which this year was devoted to the violin. The 17-year-old received €5,000 as well as the €500 audience prize at the competition’s final on 3 August.Born in 1996, Wehr (pictured) performed Chausson’s Poème and Bach’s Partita ...
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ArticleConversations with great artists: Isaac Stern
The legendary violinist talks about his musical background and philosophies
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ArticlePittsburgh Symphony concertmaster joins Carnegie Mellon faculty
Noah Bendix-Balgley, concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO), is to join the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University School of Music in September 2013. The 28-year-old violinist (pictured), who has occupied the concertmaster’s chair since 2011, will coach student quartets. Bendix-Balgley was the first violinist of the Athlos Quartet from ...
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ArticleToby Saks (1942–2013)
Cellist and teacher Toby Saks died on 1 August at the age of 71. A soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue, she founded the Seattle Chamber Music Society in 1982 and served as artistic director of the Seattle Chamber Music Festival for more than three decades.Born in 1942, Saks began learning ...
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ArticlePerlman and Ashkenazy record Franck
Heated discussions about the volume of the violin in the recording provide fascinating insight into the recording process
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ArticleBeyond classical: Sarah Neufeld
The Arcade Fire violinist creates the music for Forcelessness, a ballet
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ArticleColumbus Symphony recruits new concertmaster
The Columbus Symphony in Ohio, US, has named Canadian Jean-Sébastien Roy as its new concertmaster. His appointment ends an 18-month search by the orchestra. Roy, who performed as guest concertmaster with the orchestra in the 2012–13 season, will lead the orchestra from the beginning of the 2013–14 season in October.Roy ...
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ArticleStolen £1.2m Stradivarius violin recovered
UK police have recovered a 1696 Stradivarius violin, more than two and half years after it was stolen from Korean violinist Min-Jin Kym. The instrument, discovered intact with some very minor damage including a small crack on the front, was recovered in its case on 18 July, along with a ...
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ArticleUS music camp to teach beginner strings to amputee children
A new music camp for amputee and limb-different children who want to learn stringed instruments or piano launches next week in Cincinnati, US.The Cincinnati Adaptive Music Camp will provide students with any adaptive devices, such as special fittings or instrument platforms, that they need to be able to ...
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ArticleThe way they played: Erica Morini
The Italian violinist plays the third movement of Bruch's First Violin Concerto.
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ArticleThe way they played: Jacqueline du Pré
The cellist plays Brahms's Second Cello Sonata with Daniel Barenboim.
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ArticleBeyond classical: Kevin Burke
The Irish fiddler, and subject of Double Acts in The Strad's August issue, performs with Michael O'Domhnaill.
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ArticleTwo violinists share top prize at Cooper International Competition
Kyumin Park, 16, from South Korea, and 18-year-old William Ching-Yi Wei, from Taiwan, were joint first-prize winners of the Cooper International Violin Competition in Cleveland, US.Park (pictured) and Wei each received $10,000. The second prize of $6,000 went to Ming Liu, 18, from China. All three violinists, who performed in ...
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ArticleGreat teachers on film: Leonard Rose
Cellist Leonard Rose (1918-1984) was famous for having had a deep burnished tone and was naturally gifted in left-hand technique. This 1978 film, edited for viewing by Steven Honigberg, documents Rose's teaching theories for posterity. Click here to see Rose perform Bloch's Schelomo Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleComedy moments: Victor Borge accompanies Anton Kontra
The comic pianist mugs his way through Monti's Czardas
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Newark students complete late maker's cello in two-week project
In a special project to benefit the UK-based Rowan Armour-Brown (RAB) Trust, a group of students from the Newark School of Violin Making have completed an unfinished cello by Brian Laurence, who died in 2012. Laurence, who was based in Doncaster, began making the cello in 1989 when he ...
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ArticleThe way they played: Leonard Rose
The cellist performs Bloch's Schelomo with Lorin Maazel and the Cleveland Orchestra
