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ArticleViolinist Jennifer Pike performs Mendelssohn at BBC Young Musician Final aged 12
12-year-old Jennifer Pike performs the third movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis in London's Barbican, winning the title of BBC Young Musician of the Year 2002.Read: Pizzicato technique is often neglected, says violinist Jennifer Pike
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NewsCity of Birmingham Symphony names Kate Suthers second violin section leader
The Australian born violinist will join the orchestra in late May
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ArticleMaxim Vengerov plays the ‘Schneiderhan’ Stradivarius violin - first prize for the Menuhin Competition 2016
There is nothing like a 301-year-old violin sound. I was very lucky, as at the age of 10, I was given the use of a half-size Strad. You immediately think that you are now going to be an amazing violinist because you are playing a Strad, with its ...
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NewsViolinist Janine Jansen to step down as artistic director of her chamber festival
Cellist Harriet Krijgh, aged 24, will take over the annual event in Utrecht from 2017
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ArticleViolin smashed onstage in Eight Songs for a Mad King
The King, played by Peter Tantsits, smashes a violin in the climax to International Contemporary Ensemble's production of Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King.
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ArticleBerlin Philharmonic masterclass by violinist Helmut Mebert
It's important we play these accents with energy and increased speed of bowing, and then withdraw at the end so that the sound resonates' Berlin Philharmonic violinist Helmut Mebert gives a masterclass for the 2011 YouTube Symphony Orchestra on the first violin part of Mendelssohn's Symphony no.4, ...
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NewsThe Juilliard School teams with medici.tv to broadcast live masterclasses
The three sessions this month feature cellist David Finckel, and conductors Harry Bicket and Fabio Luisi
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman on making the music 'speak'
I know I played every note...' In this clip from Christopher Nupen's film Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist the great musician discusses playing Paganini's Caprice no.5 very fast in a concert hall with a lot of echo. Read: Never practise for more than five hours per day, says ...
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NewsMontreal International Music Competition 2016 names 24 shortlisted violinists
The candidates will compete for $86,000 in prizes – including a top prize of $30,000
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BlogsMenuhin Competition candidates perform at London's St Pancras Station
The two violinists will be competing in the Menuhin Competition 2016 next month
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NewsViolist Pavel Nikl leaves Pavel Haas Quartet due to family illness
The emsemble founding member is replaced by Š kampa Quartet violist Radim Sedmidubský
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ArticleThe great cellist Pablo Casals in conversation
I am still learning every day. Every day I complete the same practice routine that I completed at 18 - scales, arpeggios, thirds and finishing with a Bach suite'Cellist Pablo Casals speaks about his life and career as his head is sculpted at the age of 94.Watch: Great ...
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NewsNotes for Schumann's Piano Trio no.1 bought for six-figure sum
Composer’s sketches previously owned by private US collection now available to public
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NewsConductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt dies aged 86
Friends and colleagues honour early-music pioneer and founder of Concentus Musicus Wien
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NewsViolinist Marc Bouchkov to receive 2016 Rheingau Music Festival award
The 24-year-old violinist will receive €15,000 in prize money
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FocusHow t'ai chi can help cellists
Ross Harbaugh talks through some exercises designed to develop balance and technique
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ArticleHow effective is a modern violin and Baroque bow in period performance?
Dr Tomas Cotik, violin soloist, Amernet String Quartet member and professor at the University of Miami, performs the Largo from Bach's Violin Sonata no.3 on his modern violin and a Baroque bow. He describes his decision to use this combination for the recording below:'I usually play a modern ...
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FocusCellist Mischa Maisky on studying with Piatigorsky and Rostropovich
Both great musicians taught Maisky that the cello is merely a means to an end
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ArticleCellist Mischa Maisky performs Rachmaninoff's Vocalise
Cellist Mischa Maisky performs Rachmaninoff's Vocalise with his daughter Lily Maisky at the Moscow Conservatory in 2008. Read: Cellist Mischa Maisky on studying with Piatigorsky and Rostropovich
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ArticleTabea Zimmermann performs Bartók's Viola Concerto
Tabea Zimmermann performs Bartók's Viola Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Semyon Bychkov in June 2010. Read: Violist Tabea Zimmermann on technique, teaching and competitions
