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BlogsHow to be successful in an orchestral audition - LSO violinist Maxine Kwok
London Symphony Orchestra first violinist Maxine Kwok offers tips for string candidates on preparing for orchestral auditions in this interview from 2014
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Blogs‘Music and Mozart have been life savers’ - The Engegård Quartet
Violist of the Engegård Quartet Juliet Jopling shares how the indomitable spirit of Mozart’s string quartet music has helped the ensemble through difficult times
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BlogsForgotten in HIStory: shining a light on female composers through the ages
Violinist Ellie Consta reflects on her journey to uncover works by forgotten female composers as the founder and artistic director of Her Ensemble: the UK’s first women and non-binary string ensemble
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BlogsHow I write for strings - composer Danielle Eva Schwob
Composer Danielle Eva Schwob reflects on the challenges of writing for stringed instruments, as well as why collaboration is important to ensure music-making is a mutually beneficial experience for all
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BlogsSongs without words: arranging popular classics of Azerbaijan for violin and guitar
Violinist Nazrin Rashidova writes about transcribing popular Azerbaijani songs with an aim to explore and expand the repertoire for violin and classical guitar
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Blogs‘I have never entered a competition hoping to win’ - Emma Wernig
Violist Emma Wernig shares her experiences of finding musical freedom within the stressful environment of competitions
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BlogsImprovising on Bach's solo violin works
In this post originally from 2015, violinist Hugo Ticciati discusses the art of improvisation and using Bach as a basis for musical meditation
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Blogs5 pieces of advice for playing Bach by violinist Lisa Batiashvili
The artist shares her ideas about performing works of the great Baroque composer
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BlogsEnter the basement of Violin Torture
Experimental luthier Tyler Thackray’s interest in deconstructing stringed instruments has earned him a huge following on Instagram
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Article10 tips for improvising on a stringed instrument
Grammy-winning American jazz violinist Zach Brock gives advice for classical string players wanting to explore the world of improvisation
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Blogs‘We will be picking up the threads of an ongoing conversation’ - composer Edmund Finnis
Ahead of the premiere of his String Quartet no.2 with Manchester Collective, Edmund Finnis explains the importance of close collaboration between composers and performers to communicate musical intentions clearly and foster a deeper mutual understanding
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BlogsLearning to Speak Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV565 through the lens of a solo violin transcription
Violinist Gregory Harrington shares his process of transcribing Bach’s iconic organ work for solo violin
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Article‘Like hitting a brick wall again and again’ – Yulia Chaplina on Prokofiev’s F minor Violin Sonata
Alongside violinist Thomas Gould, pianist Yulia Chaplina performed music by Prokofiev and Weinberg to a live audience at London’s Kings Place this week
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BlogsMarcus du Sautoy explores the symmetry of Stradivari
The Oxford professor for the public undestanding of science attempts to discover what makes Stradivari so special
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BlogsDesmond Cecil: my search for the perfect violin
Excerpt from Desmond Cecil’s newly published memoir: ‘The Wandering Civil Servant of Stradivarius’
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BlogsDesmond Cecil: My time with violinist Max Rostal
Excerpt from Desmond Cecil’s newly published memoir: ‘The Wandering Civil Servant of Stradivarius’
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BlogsTomás Cotik: How I interpret Bach
Ahead of his 2020 album release of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, the violinist presents a new blog series, in which he discusses the contradictions between the opposing trends and traditions in Bach interpretation, and his personal solutions to them
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BlogsRecording Bach’s Violin Concertos with John Eliot Gardiner
Kati Debretzeni, leader of the English Baroque Soloists, explains the thought processes behind her recent Bach recording
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Blogs11 ways to be a better chamber musician
Violinist, composer and chamber music festival founder Natalie Klouda writes the advice she would like to have been given when she was starting out
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BlogsViolinist Jack Liebeck and composer Stuart Hancock interview each other
Having just worked together on recording a new violin concerto, the composer and soloist sit down to discuss the challenges and rewards of the process
