All Focus articles – Page 42
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FocusDegrees: Davina Clarke
Violinist, former Historical Performance Masters student at the Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
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FocusDegrees: Find your chamber teacher
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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FocusDegrees: Find your cello teacher
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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FocusDegrees: Find your double bass teacher
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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FocusDegrees: Sven Arne Tepl
Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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FocusDegrees: Alice Waten
Chair of Strings Department at the Sydney Conservatorium, Sydney, Australia
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FocusInside the top-secret world of string manufacturing
Ariane Todes gets an exclusive peek inside a string factory
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FocusIn life, if you do something you have to go for it. Pursue your dreams with eternal optimism
Viola player and pedagogue Nobuko Imai offers a few choice words of wisdom
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FocusExciting to see Simon Fischer's new book on show at Frankfurt Musikmesse!
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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FocusAmsterdam rehouses some beautiful gambas in its newly renovated Rijksmuseum
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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FocusIvry Gitlis's new film comes out this weekend: something to smile about!
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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FocusGrammy nominees announced. Kim Kashkashian and Antonio Meneses among artists up for awards
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FocusCharlie Chaplin the violinist
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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FocusThe Beatles and strings – part two
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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FocusPractice Diary: The Miró Quartet - part one
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
Charles Beare tells the story of the discovery and identification of the 'Huberman' Stradivari violin
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FocusSzigeti as teacher: Frances Kramer
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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FocusThe cello wisdom of Gary Hoffman
Singing when you practise can save you years, the cellist tells Ariane Todes
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FocusSzigeti as teacher: Andrew Watkinson
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 ...
