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BlogsWhere music meets nature – Moab’s new artistic director Tessa Lark takes the helm
New artistic director Tessa Lark shares her vision for adventurous programming, genre-defying artistry and the unique community that thrives where music meets nature at Moab.
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BlogsCommemorating 50 years since Shostakovich’s death: violist Paul Neubauer and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott
The duo share their thoughts on a new album featuring the composer’s Cello Sonata arranged for viola, the recently discovered Impromptu and the monumental Viola Sonata
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Focus‘City of Music’ - a report from Harbin’s Schoenfeld International String Competition
The recent competition, which was held in July 2025, is described as ’a multifaceted platform bridging the cultures of East and West, Old and New, Local and Global.’ The Strad takes a look at the festivities
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BlogsRewriting the score: women’s voices from the Gilded Age
Chicago-based violinist Charlene Kluegel and pianist Katherine Petersen, who together form Duo FAE, uncover the feminist undercurrents of three Gilded Age composers in their new album.
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Nadia Sirota on Hindemith’s Trauermusik
Despite its short length, Hindemith’s Trauermusik was an eye-opening concerto for the US violist, revealing all the possibilities of the instrument’s sound world
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Article‘The two most memorable days of my entire professional life’: meeting Shostakovich in 1972
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death, Michael Downes speaks to the original members of the Fitzwilliam Quartet about their recollections of meeting the great Russian composer in York and performing his String Quartet no.13
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BlogsBeyond the standard repertoire: Justin Bruns on Lou Harrison’s radical violin concerto at Cabrillo
The Cabrillo Festival Orchestra concertmaster discusses the challenges and joys of performing Harrison’s joyfully unorthodox Violin Concerto with Percussion Orchestra – an iconoclastic work rooted in personal expression and cross-cultural sound worlds.
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Blogs‘Grief isn’t clean or perfectly in tune, it has rough edges’: cellist Tamar Sagiv on her new album
The cellist speaks to The Strad about her upcoming album Shades of Mourning, which explores the multifaceted nature of grief and mourning through original compositions
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BlogsMemories at Menlo with David Finckel and Wu Han
Davina Shum sat down with Music@Menlo’s co-founders and artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han to reminisce about previous editions of the festival, which has been a huge part of their lives for the last couple of decades
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Premium ❘ FeatureString players and injury: playing through the pain?
Violinist and teacher Philippa Bunting explores the – often extreme – impact that an injury can have on a musician, how the industry is dealing with the issue and what musicians can do to help themselves
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Premium ❘ Focus‘Only pursue music because you love it, not to please someone else’ - Joseph Conyers’ life lessons
The US double bassist reflects on his biggest influences and the necessity of leading by example
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BlogsThe cost of remembering: cellist Maya Beiser on her new concept album
The cellist discusses her new concept album, Salt, which reimagines the biblical figure of Lot’s Wife as a symbol of memory, defiance and female agency.
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BlogsThe polyphonic nature of Bach’s Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas: more than meets the eye and the ear
Laurent Matthys explores how Bach’s vertical harmonic elements intertwine with horizontal lines to create a contrapuntal masterpiece in the Corrente of Violin Partita no.2
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BlogsA week on tour with cellist Benett Tsai
Young Concert Artists Jacobs Fellow Benett Tsai recounts his preparation and performances during a homecoming tour from 23 to 29 June 2025
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: Violinist Rachel Podger on recording Biber sonatas
Violinist Rachel Podger tells Peter Quantrill about her new recording of Biber sonatas, and how the music has both a sense of the unexpected and the power to soothe and delight
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Strategies for coming back to your instrument
Returning to your instrument after a long break can be dispiriting, says cellist Davina Shum, but it’s important to take it by degrees, have faith in your ability and trust the process
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BlogsAcross the Americas: The Miró Quartet celebrates Alberto Ginastera
The Miró Quartet brings decades of commitment to its new recording of the complete string quartets of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera.
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BlogsTwo Czech pieces you should know: violinist Kryštof Kohout
Kryštof Kohout unearths two pieces by Czech composers Luboš Fišer and Váša Příhoda, ahead of their London premieres at Wigmore Hall
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Premium ❘ Feature'If you play without mistake I will make you a present' - From the Archive: August 1905
A reminiscence (possibly apocryphal) of the renowned Scottish fiddler Niel Gow (1727–1807), composer of more than 80 dance tunes
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NewsLetters from Lony: how letters from an Auschwitz victim became the subject for a chamber work
Ronald Corps’ setting of Lony Fraenkel’s letters to her family during World War II will be performed at the Three Choirs Festival on 1 August
