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NewsRussian cellist Alexey Seleznev has died
The musician was active in conservatoires and in promoting the careers of talented young cellists
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NewsJavier Comesaña wins 2021 International Jascha Heifetz Competition
The Spanish violinist, 22, receives the €10,000 first prize
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NewsCellist Lev Evgrafov dies aged 86
One of the Soviet Union’s most celebrated cellists, he was often accompanied by his mother on piano
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VideoKeila Wakao’s prize-winning performance at the 2021 Menuhin Competition Junior Finals
The 15-year-old Japanese violinist performs works by Bloch, Bates and Wieniawski
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NewsEgmont Trio takes first prize at ‘Beethoven in His Time’ Competition
The group, founded in 2019, receives €15,000 and a Naxos recording
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FocusSentimental Work: Carolin Widmann
For the German violinist, Schubert’s Fantasy in C major is a transcendental experience – and not just because of its myriad technical challenges
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VideoGil Shaham on the advice he received from mentors
As part of the Dorothy DeLay MasterClass Series, organized and directed by the violinist and teacher Dmitri Berlinsky, violinist Gil Shaham talks about his teachers Samuel Bernstein and Dorothy DeLay, advice he received from Isaac Stern and more. Watch Perlmans on the golden era of the violin school
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VideoJuilliard School: Emerging Artists and Art Forms
This video from the Juilliard School features new interdisciplinary works from composers, VR artists and performers working with new performance technologies. This is part of Emerging Artists and Art Forms, a platform for students who share an interest in experimental art and interdisciplinary collaboration. All works feature live performances with ...
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GalleryFermata Festival Gallery
When the UK went into lockdown in March 2020, and artists across the country found themselves suddenly looking at an empty work diary, many took on other jobs, from delivery driving to brick-laying, to make ends meet. A sizeable number of classical musicians searched for a new outlet for their ...
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VideoEffortless Beethoven from Maxim Vengerov
A performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto from the 2011 Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, of which Vengerov was jury chairman
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ArticleGermany pledges €2.5bn for Covid-hit arts sector
The money will give assurances to events organisers in the event of forced cancellations due to Covid-19
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Article‘Like hitting a brick wall again and again’ – Yulia Chaplina on Prokofiev’s F minor Violin Sonata
Alongside violinist Thomas Gould, pianist Yulia Chaplina performed music by Prokofiev and Weinberg to a live audience at London’s Kings Place this week
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VideoJoshua Bell plays Piazzolla with Chamber Orchestra of Havana
Summer from the composer’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, part of a 2016 performance at New York’s Lincoln Center
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ArticleBBC Proms 2021 lineup announced
Stars of the strings world will join live audiences this summer at the world’s biggest classical music festival
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VideoBomsori plays Wieniawski Violin Concerto no.2
The violinist’s 2016 performance from 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań, Poland
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NewsBomsori: 'I always thought, “I am just not brilliant enough for Wieniawski"'
The South Korean violinist tells us why playing Wieniawski made the composer and his music feel more ‘human’
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Premium ❘ FeatureBomsori: Singing from the heart
For Korean violinist Bomsori, the past year has been one of her busiest yet, with numerous live and streamed performances and her first solo recording for Deutsche Grammophon. As she takes her next steps on the road to international renown, she shares her guiding principles with Andrew Mellor
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Premium ❘ FeatureJoseph White: Making history
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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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: Symphony of three
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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Premium ❘ Feature12 Ensemble: In the driving seat
Formed in 2012, conductorless London-based string group the 12 Ensemble has taken an unconventional path to making a name for itself, as artistic directors Eloisa-Fleur Thom and Max Ruisi tell Toby Deller
