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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov performs Vivaldi with 2016 Wieniawski Competition winners
Maxim Vengerov performs Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins in B minor with the first, second and third prize winners of the 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, held in October 2016. Performing with Vengerov are first prize winner Veriko Tchumburidze, second prize winner Bomsori Kim and third ...
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ArticleIoana Cristina Goicea gives winning Tchaikovsky performance at Michael Hill Violin Competition
Ioana Cristina Goicea performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in the Grand Final of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, held on 10 June 2017 at Auckland Town Hall in New Zealand - which she won. The 24-year-old Romanian violinist receives NZ$40,000, a recording contract with the Atoll label, ...
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ArticleViolinist Ivry Gitlis improvises with Gypsy musicians
Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis improvises with Gypsy musicians in a clip from the 1970s. Watch: 93-year-old violinist Ivry Gitlis performs Kreisler Read: 8 opinions on performance and career by violinist Ivry Gitlis
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ArticleLuke Hsu performs Wieniawski at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition
Luke Hsu, one of three violinists selected to progress to the final of the 2017 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand on 10 June, performs Wieniawski's Faust in the quarter-final. The violinists are competing for a top prize of NZ$40,000, a recording contract with the ...
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ArticleCellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia performs in the final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017
Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia performs Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto with the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Stéphane Denève in the final of the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition – where he won third prize of €17,000 and concert opportunities. Currently pursuing a master's degree at the Hochschule für ...
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ArticleCellist Victor Julien-Laferrière gives winning performance at Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017
French cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière performs Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto with the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Stéphane Denève in the final of the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition - where he won the grand prize of €25,000 and concert opportunities. A former student of Heinrich Schiff at the ...
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ArticleHow to cope with repertoire overload - cellist Michael Petrov
This year's Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize winner shares his tips for physical and mental preparation, and time management
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ArticleCellist Alisa Weilerstein on optimal body movement while playing
The cello is a big, unwieldy instrument and it is easy to let it control you, if you are not careful...' Cellist Alisa Weilerstein speaks with Paul Katz at Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music about using body motion to optimal effect when playing. The interview was ...
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ArticleYuya Okamoto performs in the final of the Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition
Japanese cellist Yuya Okamoto performs Dvorák's Second Cello Concerto with the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Stéphane Denève in the final of the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition - for which he won second prize. The 22-year-old former prize winner of the Competition of Japan and Witold Lutoslawski ...
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ArticleRenaud Capuçon performs Korngold's Violin Concerto
Renaud Capuçon performs Korngold's Violin Concerto with the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern conducted by Christoph Poppen in 2008. Watch: Renaud Capuçon rehearses Beethoven’s Violin Concerto 2017 Watch: Capuçon brothers – violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier – perform together at the BBC Proms
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ArticleJoshua Bell performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in 2016
Joshua Bell performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Jirí BÄ›lohlávek in 2016. Read: Joshua Bell on performing and directing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto for the first time Watch: Joshua Bell performs Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto no. 3 Read: ‘I often have to battle negative thoughts ...
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ArticleHow I manage my nerves on stage: violist Tabea Zimmermann
The German violist reflects on managing self-doubt, concentrating on the positive and breathing
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ArticlePinchas Zukerman performs Brahms and Bach violin concertos
Pinchas Zukerman performs Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor followed by Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in celebration of Zubin Mehta's birthday in April 2016. Zukerman conducts from the violin for the Bach, while Mehta takes to the podium to conduct the Brahms. Read: ...
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn performs Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending
US violinist Hilary Hahn performs Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending with Camerata Salzburg at the George Enescu Festival in October 2013. Read: Violinist Hilary Hahn on practice and interpretation Watch: Violinist Hilary Hahn on owning the stage
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ArticleHow to balance the left-hand when playing chords and double stops
The Berlin University of the Arts and London Royal Academy of Music viola professor speaks about left arm set-up when playing multiple notes simultaneously
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ArticleNicola Benedetti performs Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto in 2017
UK violinist Nicola Benedetti performs Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto with the Gothenburg Symphony conducted by Thomas SøndergŠrd in April 2017. Watch: Violinist Nicola Benedetti on the physicality of playing Watch: Violinist Nicola Benedetti gives Ysaÿe masterclass
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ArticleViolinist Janine Jansen performs Kreisler's Marche Miniature Viennoise
Violinist Janine Jansen performs Kreisler's Marche Miniature Viennoise with pianist Magda Amara on Podium Witteman in May 2016. Read: Janine Jansen receives 1707 Stradivarius violin on ten-year loan Watch: Violinist Janine Jansen performs Brahms aged 13 Watch: Janine Jansen performs Brahms Violin Concerto
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ArticleBaroque set-up is of secondary importance for getting results in Bach - violinist Christian Tetzlaff
The German artist speaks to Andrew Mellor about finding new depths of discovery in Bach's Solo Sonatas and Partitas
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ArticleLawrence Power on the special qualities of the viola
Of all the stringed instruments, the viola is the greatest compromise acoustically…it shouldn’t really exist' Leading British violist Lawrence Power speaks about the special qualities of his instrument and performs excerpts from Esa-Pekka Salonen's Pentatonic Étude for solo viola and Walton's Viola Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra ...
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ArticleBecoming an early music specialist is not a cop-out. Here’s why...
Violinist and Illyria Consort founder Bojan Cicic offers advice for young players looking to investigate early music performance techniques more seriously
