All Isaac Stern articles
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FocusWatch: Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition winners’ concerts
Watch the performances in the ’Tribute to Isaac Stern’s Centennial SISIVC Winners’ Concert’ from 26 to 28 August 2022
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ReviewBook review: Have Violin, Will Travel: The Louis Persinger Story
Tully Potter reviews a biography of the US violinist and pedagogue who taught Menuhin, Ricci and Stern among others
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VideoViolinist Nancy Zhou performs live tribute for Isaac Stern Centennial
The 2018 Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition winner is joined by pianist Zhen ’Victor’ Chen in works by Gershwin, Bartók and Chen Yi
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Article‘He was always looking for the most exquisite colours’ - Cho-Liang Lin remembers Isaac Stern
Taiwan-born, American violinist Cho-Liang Lin took part in several of Isaac Stern’s late chamber music recordings. Here he shares his impressions with Tully Potter
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ReviewBook review: The Lives of Isaac Stern
Tully Potter reviews a biography of the legendary American violinist, published in his centenary year
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Article‘He taught me how to stand up for what I believed in’ - Midori remembers Isaac Stern
Midori shares her memories of her mentor Stern, in honour of the great violinist’s 100th anniversary
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VideoViolinist Isaac Stern plays Wieniawski Polonaise no.1 in 1955
Isaac Stern performs Wieniawski’s Polonaise no.1 in D major on the Jack Benny Program with pianist Alexander Zakin in 1955. Read: ‘He could hear and see talent, and he loved it’ - Pinchas Zukerman remembers Isaac SternRead: ‘My father hated competitions’: David Stern at the Shanghai Isaac Stern Competition ...
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Article‘He could hear and see talent, and he loved it’ - Pinchas Zukerman remembers Isaac Stern
Zukerman shares his memories of his mentor Stern, in honour of the great violinist’s 100th anniversary
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NewsNancy Zhou wins Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition 2018
The US violinist triumphed in the all-female final to take home the $100,000 first prize
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NewsObituary: Fredell Lack, 19 February 1922 - 20 August 2017
Child prodigy violinist who went on to be one of America’s most prolific teachers
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ArticleMayu Kishima performs Paganini at Shanghai Isaac Stern Violin Competition 2016
Japanese violinist Mayu Kishima, who today has been named the winner of the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition, performs Paganini's Caprices nos. 24 and 11 in the contest's Quarter Final round.
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NewsMayu Kishima wins Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition $100,000 first prize
The announcement follows two days of finals during which six violinists performed a concerto and a virtuosic work with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
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NewsShanghai Isaac Stern Violin Competition reveals scores of eliminated semi-finalists
The violinists are competing for a top prize of $100,000 from 14 August to 2 September 2016
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NewsShanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition announces six finalists
The violinists are competing for a top prize of $100,000 from 14 August to 2 September 2016
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NewsShanghai Isaac Stern Violin Competition reveals scores of eliminated quarter-finalists
The violinists are competing for a top prize of $100,000 from 14 August to 2 September 2016
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NewsShanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition announces 18 semi-finalists
The violinists are competing for a top prize of $100,000 from 14 August to 2 September 2016
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Article'You must play as naturally as you sing': violinist Isaac Stern in China
One sings very naturally. You must figure out how to make that sound on your violin' In this clip from the 1979 documentary 'From Mao to Mozart', violinist Isaac Stern demonstrates to a young student the importance of listening and playing like a singer. Watch: Violinist Isaac ...
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FocusViolinist Isaac Stern in China
Captured in the 1979 Academy Award-winning documentary 'From Mao to Mozart', Isaac Stern had a transformative effect on China's classical music scene, writes Nancy Pellegrini
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ArticleViolinist Isaac Stern and cellist Yo-Yo Ma perform the Brahms Double Concerto
A 66-year-old Isaac Stern performs Brahms Double Concerto in A minor, op.102, with Yo-Yo Ma and the NHK Symphony Orchestra at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo in 1986. Watch: Isaac Stern on what makes an artist Watch: Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose and Eugene Istomin perform Brahms Watch: ...
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ArticleViolinist Isaac Stern on what makes an artist
It takes a very peculiar combination of humility and arrogance. You need arrogance to believe in ideas of your own and humility enough to know you will never find the final answer' The great violinist Isaac Stern talks about musicianship and what it takes to be an ...