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Featured Stories: Read opinion pieces and interviews from top players
Featured Stories
Mindset beyond technique: why mental training matters for musicians
Why do performances sometimes fall short of what musicians can achieve in the practice room? Joanna Latała explores how mental training – long embraced in elite sport – offers practical methods for transforming preparation into reliable, expressive performance
Raising individuals, not imitators: Guy Johnston on the art of teaching
Cellist Guy Johnston, president of ESTA UK, has recently completed his studies on the ESTA Education PG Cert course in practical instrumental teaching. Eve Kennedy speaks to him to hear more about his teaching work and his experience of the course
The violin technique that shouldn’t exist: MinutePhysics explains Roman Kim’s harmonics technique
Roman Kim reveals how a long‑forgotten idea led him to develop a harmonic technique once thought impossible, explored here with Daniel Kurganov and MinutePhysics
Promise and possibility: the Isidore Quartet
The Isidore Quartet players tell Pauline Harding about their sudden propulsion into professional string quartet playing, a beloved mentor whose loss has inspired their debut album, and their emotionally raw collaboration with the composer Billy Childs
Postcard from Genoa: Premio Paganini Competition
Janet Banks visited north-west Italy for the finals of the 58th Premio Paganini Competition, where three young violinists contended for the top prize and a chance to play the famous ‘Il Cannone’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’
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The Artemis Bass Initiative: championing equity for women and non-binary bassists
Nina DeCesare, Susan Cahill and Susan Hagen speak with The Strad about how the Artemis Bass Initiative is tackling gender disparities in the double bass world through mentorship, visibility, and professional development
From lockdown to lightsabre duels: R2ViolinCello on rebuilding epic film scores for just two instruments
Cellist Rowena Calvert of the husband-and-wife duo shares the background, motivation and technical challenges of arranging symphonic orchestral film scores for two stringed instruments, as the duo releases its new EP Mission Impossible
Violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing: finding new colours and perspectives in Bach
The violinist reimagines Bach’s iconic works through fresh arrangements, personal storytelling and a vibrant palette of contemporary sound, in her new album Colors of Bach
Jupiter Quartet performs Ginastera’s String Quartet no.1
The ensemble performs a furious and volatile Vivacissimo in its first video performance with new violinist, Mélanie Clapiès
Finding my voice: Benedetti Ambassador Danya Rushton
Ahead of the Benedetti Foundation’s appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Appeal, violist Danya Rushton shares how the Foundation has helped her find her unique voice and identity through connection with music and like-minded musicians
Taking the next step: an interview with Trio Azura
The Strad speaks with members of the award-winning trio, which has been selected as Young Concert Artists’ first ensemble-in-residence
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