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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
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Premium ❘ Article'The word "sightreading" engenders a roll of the eyes, a slump of the shoulders': Letters to the Editor June 2021
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: June 2021 issue
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: June 1951
Could cellists eventually be supplanted by machines? That’s the fear of writer M.B. Stanfield as the 20th century enters its second half
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FeatureAccessories 2021: Covid-19 Safety for Orchestras – Playing Safe
Orchestras are among the musical ensembles to have suffered most during the pandemic. Pauline Harding finds out how some have been adapting their outlooks, products and processes in this new era of germ evasion and online streaming
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FeatureAccessories 2021: Low-latency Performance Technology – Adventures in Time and Space
The internet has been a lifeline for musicians in the pandemic, but latency – the delay as sound data is processed and transmitted – is a killer for those wanting to perform together in real time. Tom Stewart finds out how teaching institutions are fighting back with technology that can ...
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VideoIntroduction to the hardanger fiddle
Violinist and hardanger fiddle player Ragnhild Hemsing demonstrates the beauty of Norway’s national instrument
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NewsJoseph Joachim violin competition announces competitors
The 36 hopefuls will be required to play solo and chamber repertoire, as well as direct an orchestra to be in with a chance of winning the €30,000 top prize
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VideoMaría Duenas’s prize-winning performance at the 2021 Menuhin Competition
In this, her prize-winning performance from the Senior Finals of the 2021 Menuhin Competition in Richmond, the 18-year-old Spanish violinist María Dueñas plays Lutoslawski’s Subito; Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.4 in D major K.218, Andante cantabile; and Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole in D minor, Op. 21, Allegro non troppo. Read Menuhin Competition ...
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BlogsReturning to performing after suffering from long Covid
Berenice Beverley Zammit, Graduate Teaching Assistant for Music Performance Psychology at the Royal College of Music, shares advice on getting back into practice after suffering from long COVID
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VideoPerlman on the golden era of the violin school
As part of the Dorothy DeLay Masterclasses, organised and directed by Dmitri Berlinsky, violinist Itzhak Perlman and his wife Toby Perlman, Founder of The Perlman Music Program, join Berlinsky for a discussion about the great violinists and what makes them so special. Watch Prince Philip and the Queen listen to ...
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VideoZlatomir Fung plays Fauré with AI piano accompaniment
The My Pianist app appears in place of a live musician in this performance by the winner of the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Compettion
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NewsCellist becomes youngest ever winner of George Enescu competition
Jaemin Han, 15, performed Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto at the final in Bucharest, Romania
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ArticleAudiences return to UK concert halls
Performances by the LSO, Steven Isserlis and the Heath Quartet among the first to welcome spectators since late last year
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Focus‘He turned to me, a mere 22-year-old student, and asked my opinion’ – Julian Lloyd Webber on Pierre Fournier
In celebration of his 70th birthday last month, British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber shares memories with Julian Haylock of some of the cellists who shaped him
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NewsFrom Baroque violist to CEO
To mark the release of The English Concert’s new Handel recording, the group’s chief executive tells us how playing the viola has shaped his management style
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VideoJunior Semi-Finals from the Menuhin Competition Richmond 2021
The video features performances from five internatiional candidates, aged 13-15
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NewsAnne-Sophie Mutter says her appeals to politicians have failed
The violinist accuses the German government’s pandemic reposnse of showing ‘downright disregard’ for musicians
