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BlogsAt the edge of the storm: string quartets in a turbulent decade
On its new album Edge of the Storm, the US-American Telegraph Quartet explores string quartets born of war, exile and renewal.
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BlogsPulling strings: the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival scores
Richard Linnett reports back from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, which presented a showcase of classics mixed with modern and ’newish’ music
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BlogsNYO-USA in Asia: music beyond borders
From Tokyo’s Suntory Hall to Beijing’s NCPA and the Seoul Arts Centre, the National Youth Orchestra of the USA journeyed across Asia this summer with Gianandrea Noseda on the podium. Violinist Rebekah Koh and cellist Collin Runnoe talk with Thomas May about the experiences that will stay with them long ...
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BlogsViolinist Zina Schiff: my lifelong journey to record the violin works of Hovhaness
The violinist shares influential memories behind recording the works of US composer Alan Hovhaness, now immortalised in a new album
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Premium ❘ FeatureTabea Zimmermann: climb every mountain
German violist Tabea Zimmermann chats with Pauline Harding about auditions, competitions, her teaching philosophy, what she’s learnt from contemporary music – and how a combination of working with students and performing has enabled her to reach ever greater heights of string playing
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Premium ❘ FeatureGary Karr: 1941–2025
The great and influential US double bassist died in July. His former student David Murray, now bass professor at the Butler School of Music, looks back at ‘a legend, artist, teacher and friend’
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Milan: Antonio Mormone International Prize
The Antonio Mormone competition’s violin edition took place over an exacting thirteen-month period. Lauren Wesley-Smith attended the finals in Milan to hear the top three contenders
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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
