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FeatureMasterclass: Right and left-hand touch in non-classical violin playing
Understand the use of touch in your playing and you’ll be well on your way to finding the best approach for non-classical styles, explains Julie Lyonn Liberman Taken from the October 2005 issue
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BlogsViolinist Ruth Rogers on recording Letters from Burma
Ruth Rogers, leader of London Mozart Players, talks about the orchestra’s new music video Letters from Burma, streaming this Refugee Week to raise money for Myanmar refugees
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FocusLuis Cabrera: How to play transcriptions on the double bass
To coincide with the launch of his new album, the double bassist considers some ways of approaching transcriptions on his instrument
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NewsUK passport approved for Sheku Kanneh-Mason
The decision by the Passport Office came just hours after the cellist posted an appeal on Facebook
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NewsSheku Kanneh-Mason refused UK passport
The British cellist was applying for a second passport with the approval of the Home Office only to have his original document cancelled and no replacement issued
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NewsViolinist Roberta Verna named as Copenhagen Philharmonic concertmaster
The 22-year-old has previously held the same position at the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra
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Focus‘His interpretation has never been equalled here’ – violinist Joseph White’s 1875 New York debut
Cuban-born violinist Joseph White’s 1875 debut with the Philharmonic Society of New York was both a triumph and enormously significant – as the orchestra’s first performance with a soloist of African descent. Yavet Boyadjiev explores the event itself and the circumstances surrounding it
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FeatureStrength in Diversity: Minorities in US Orchestras
Half a century has passed since the New York Philharmonic hired its first black musician, and yet the percentage of Black and Latino players in top US orchestras remains woefully low. Vivien Schweitzer reports on the organisations taking action towards greater inclusivity
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BlogsJocelyn Pook on commemorating the children of Terezín through music
The composer shares the motivation and process behind her new album Drawing Life, inspired by the drawing and poetry of the children held in the Terezín Concentration Camp
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NewsKonstantin Ishkhanov launches Israeli Classic Strings Competition
Winners of the competition for violin and cello in Tel Aviv will share a prize fund worth €210,000
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News‘We are going to become more and more parochial’: Julian Lloyd Webber hits out at post-Brexit visa rules
The British cellist said it will become ’really difficult’ for musicians ’to carve out a great international career’
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FocusChevalier de Saint-Georges: violin virtuoso, composer, champion fencer and French revolutionary officer
This month we’re remembering musical groundbreakers, including violinist Joseph White, whose debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1875 made history as the first time a black soloist had appeared with that orchestra. Read about White’s historic debut in our June 2021 issue. The ...
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Focus‘It doesn’t sound like three instruments but a hundred’ – Sitkovetsky Trio
For the Sitkovetsky Trio, the challenge of recording Ravel’s Piano Trio was combining three disparate solo voices to sound as one – but the reward was a performance far greater than the sum of its parts, the players tell Tom Stewart
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NewsViolist Yuchen Lu wins 2021 Klein International String Competition
The 22-year-old Chinese musician wins $13,000 and a number of performance contracts
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NewsWinners announced at ISB Double Bass Competition
The International Society of Bassists’ virtual event took place on 7 and 8 June at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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DebateOpinion: An integrated whole
By divorcing technique from the music, we prevent the bow from becoming an extension of our right arm and hand, writes John Crawford
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NewsQuartet and violinist receive 2021 Concert Artists Guild prizes
The winners will receive concert opportunities in New York and London following the virtual competition
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BlogsViolinist György Pauk on his early career and the challenges facing young players today
The leading soloist and Royal Academy of Music professor celebrates 80 years of violin playing in his new autobiography
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NewsSheku Kanneh-Mason loaned 1700 Gofriller cello
The instrument ‘presents a kaleidoscope of tonal qualities’ and ’has an uncanny capacity to respond’ according to the cellist
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VideoMusic for Self-Isolation - Documentary
Music for Self-Isolation began as a project to raise spirits and create music for those forced into self-isolation. In just 6 weeks, Frank Horvat, Associate Composer at the Canadian Music Centre, composed 31 short solo and duo works for a variety of instruments and voice. The project has evolved, over ...
