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ArticleElysian Quartet, Scots chamber orchestra to premiere works in 2014 New Music Biennial
New works for chamber orchestra and string quartet have been commissioned as part of the first UK-wide New Music Biennial. Taking place over the course of 2014, the year-long series of world premieres has been put together by the PRS for Music Foundation, in partnership with Arts ...
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ArticleLegendary cellist and pedagogue János Starker dies at the age of 88
The renowned cellist and pedagogue János Starker has died at the age of 88. The Hungarian-born musician, who emigrated to the US in 1948, taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music for over 50 years. Among the hundreds of students he taught in his career ...
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ArticleA masterclass on Strauss's 'Don Juan' viola part
The Berlin Philharmonic's Martin Stegner offers his advice
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Article2011 interview with cellist János Starker
Two years before his death on 28 April 2013, János Starker gave a 20-minute interview to fellow cellist and educator Laurinel Owen at the Kronberg Academy, covering a wide range of topics regarding playing, teaching, and his own career.Read more about the Kronberg Academy in our German-focused April ...
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ArticleMaia Cabeza wins Leopold Mozart violin competition in Augsburg, Germany
Maia Cabeza has won first prize at the Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition in Augsburg, Germany. The US–Canadian violinist, who was born in 1992, received 10,000 euros. Cabeza (pictured) studied with Ida Kavafian and Joseph Silverstein at the Curtis Institute, and is currently studying with Ulf ...
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ArticleKian Soltani triumphs at the International Paulo Cello Competition in Finland
Kian Soltani, from Austria, won the 15,000-euro first prize at the International Paulo Cello Competition in Finland. He performed the Lutoslawski Concerto in the final concert at the Helsinki Music Centre. Soltani (pictured) was born in 1992 and is a student of Ivan Monighetti at the ...
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ArticleLondon-based Fournier Trio wins 2013 Parkhouse Award
The Fournier Trio has won the 2013 Parkhouse Award in London. The award, given every two years, is for chamber ensembles of piano and strings whose members have been performing together for at least two years. The prize for the winning ensemble includes three concerts in major ...
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Follow-up experiment for blind testing study to assess instruments' projection
A controversial 2010 experiment, which attempted to find out how easily players could distinguish new violins from old Italians, is to have a follow-up. The study's authors have announced that the new experiment will take place in September at a venue on the outskirts of Paris, France. Instead of ...
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ArticleTabea Zimmermann plays Schumann's great Märchenbilder
Our May issue is devoted to that versatile, under-appreciated instrument: the viola. Tabea Zimmermann is one of its leading champions today, with her teaching, performing and commissioning, and here she performs one of the highlights of the repertoire, Schumann's Märchenbilder.To download the May edition of The Strad click ...
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ArticleRuggiero Ricci plays Ravel's Tzigane
The first performance of Maurice Ravel's Tzigane took place on 26 April 1924. Here's a performance by the late violinist Ruggiero Ricci, given in 1984.You can read The Strad's tribute to 'the master soloist and prolific recording artist' in the December 2012 issue, and a two-CD recording from ...
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ArticleVeteran US concertmaster William Steck dies at 79
US violinist William Steck has died at the age of 79. A veteran of the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Dallas Symphony and Atlanta Symphony orchestras, he was best known as concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in Washington DC, which he led from 1982 to 2001. Born in ...
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ArticleRoyal Philharmonic Society honours Buskaid and Sphinx founders
The UK's Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) has awarded honorary memberships to Buskaid founder Rosemary Nalden and Aaron Dworkin, the founder of the Sphinx Organisation. British violist Nalden (pictured) founded Buskaid in 1992 to raise money for a string project in South Africa. Since 1999 she has ...
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ArticleTitanic bandleader's letter sells for £93,000 at auction
A letter written by Titanic violinist and bandleader Wallace Hartley has been sold for £93,000. Hartley wrote the letter on board the Titanic just days before the liner's maiden voyage ended in tragedy in the North Atlantic on 14 April 1912. The letter, addressed to Hartley's ...
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ArticleDragonetti Double Bass Concerto – first movement
On 23 April 1846 Domenico Dragonetti was buried at the Roman Catholic chapel of St Mary, Moorfields, London. Here's the first movement of his Double Bass Concerto ('revised' by Eduard Nanny), with US bassist Gary Karr as soloist. This video allows listeners to follow the solo part ...
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ArticleLong-serving LA Philharmonic bassist Richard D. Kelley dies at the age of 76
US double bassist Richard D. Kelley, who performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for more than 50 years, died on 16 April at the age of 76. He had joined the orchestra in 1956 aged 19, when Eduard van Beinum was its music director. During his 57-year ...
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ArticleMenuhin's guide to the violin
The legendary violinist explains his theories on the skills of playing
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ArticleAlban Berg Violin Concerto: UK premiere
Alban Berg's Violin Concerto received its world premiere on 19 April 1936. It was commissioned by American violinist Louis Krasner, who performs the solo part in this UK recording, made some weeks later, with Anton Webern conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra. 'There is an excruciatingly difficult double-stopping cadenza of ...
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ArticleGilles Apap on playing a Mozart cadenza
French violinist Gilles Apap (born 21 May 1963) talks about meeting Yehudi Menuhin and playing his own cadenza for Mozart's Concerto no.3 in G major K216. The performance begins at 1:54 and the cadenza at 4:28.
