All Focus articles – Page 42

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    Degrees: Kelly Lefaive

    2013-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Violinist, former Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance student at the University of Toronto, Canada

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    Degrees: Lim Yau

    2013-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Head of Orchestral Studies and Chamber Music at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Singapore

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    Degrees: Lucia Mac Partlin

    2013-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Violinist, Second Year Bachelors student of Traditional and Classical Music at CIT Cork School of Music, Ireland

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    Degrees: Tobias Kruse Lautrup

    2013-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Cellist, Graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark

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    Degrees: Welcome

    2013-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Welcome to Degrees 2016 – your international guide to further education for string players, published by The Strad. We have details of courses in 50 countries worldwide, including the main string teachers on each, to help you make an informed decision about where to study next.At this crucial ...

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    Degrees: Find your viola teacher

    2013-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Sometimes the most rewarding way to pick a degree course is by the teacher you want to study with. Use our list of some well-known names in teaching and playing around the world to start your search

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    What happens inside a string factory?

    2013-04-23T00:00:00Z

    An exclusive view of how strings are manufactured

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    Inside the top-secret world of string manufacturing

    2013-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Ariane Todes gets an exclusive peek inside a string factory

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    Ivry Gitlis's new film comes out this weekend: something to smile about!

    2013-04-08T00:00:00Z

    The great violinist Ivry Gitlis stars in a new film that opens in French cinemas tomorrow. Click below for more: http://www.thestrad.com/latest/news/ivry-gitlis-movie-star-legendary-violinist-back-on-screen-at-the-age-of-90-in-new-french-comedy

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    Amsterdam rehouses some beautiful gambas in its newly renovated Rijksmuseum

    2013-04-08T00:00:00Z

    The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam reopened on 13 April after a ten-year renovation programme. As well as its famous collection of Dutch art, the museum displays a number of special collections, with a dedicated music room housing violas da gamba and other instruments. Find out more here

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    Exciting to see Simon Fischer's new book on show at Frankfurt Musikmesse!

    2013-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Violin pedagogue Simon Fischer, The Strad's long-serving regular columnist, has just had his new book, The Violin Lesson, published. You can buy his other publications, Basics and Practice, at The Strad Library

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    In life, if you do something you have to go for it. Pursue your dreams with eternal optimism

    2013-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Viola player and pedagogue Nobuko Imai offers a few choice words of wisdom

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    Grammy nominees announced. Kim Kashkashian and Antonio Meneses among artists up for awards

    2013-02-18T00:00:00Z

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    Charlie Chaplin the violinist

    2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

    The great screen comedian, who died on Christmas Day, 1977, was an accomplished amateur violinist who composed many of the scores to his films. Ariane Todes looks at the central role the violin played in his life

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    The Beatles and strings – part two

    2012-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Love Me Do, the Beatles' first single, was released in October 1962. We marked its 50th anniversary with an investigation by Kate Mossman into how the Fab Four brought string music into their work

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    Practice Diary: The Miró Quartet - part one

    2012-10-03T00:00:00Z

    In the November issue, second violinist William Fedkenheuer explains how the four players prepare for a recording of Schubert's Quartettsatz. Here he goes into more detail regarding tempo and intonation

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    Lost and found

    2012-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Charles Beare tells the story of the discovery and identification of the 'Huberman' Stradivari violin

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    Szigeti as teacher: Frances Kramer

    2012-09-23T00:00:00Z

    In the October 2013 issue, violinist Arnold Steinhardt recalls how he spent the summer of 1962 studying with Joseph Szigeti at his home in Switzerland. Just three years after Steinhardt's year with the great musician (pictured), violinist Frances Kramer wrote this account, published in the November 1965 edition, ...

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    The cello wisdom of Gary Hoffman

    2012-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Singing when you practise can save you years, the cellist tells Ariane Todes

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    Szigeti as teacher: Andrew Watkinson

    2012-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Watkinson, violinist and teacher at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, remembers how he met and studied with Joseph Szigeti in 1970:'I was 16 years old at the time, and I’d secured a university place, but I was looking for something to do as a gap ...