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How to find your true path in music: seven things I wish I knew as a student
Musicians are trained at conservatories to play their instruments well, but what happens after their studies? Violinist Helena Maria Falk examines how musicians can find their true calling – and how often this involves life away from the practice room
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‘The cello is another storyteller’: Ayanna Witter-Johnson on her new album
The cellist and composer shares how the relationship with her cello and her heritage informs her album New Roots, as well as what she hope to get out of a new residency at LSO St Luke’s
Writing for strings gives the possibility of hearing many voices: Olivia Belli
Pianist and composer Olivia Belli shares how writing for strings provides countless opportunities for expression her compositions, including her work DAIMON, inspired by The Odyssey
New video: Ilya Kaler and Rasa Vitkauskaite perform Florence Price’s ‘Adoration’
The work features on The Bridgetower Project, which aims to highlight the legacy of Afro-European violin virtuoso George Bridgetower.
Signum Quartet performs Vítězslava Kaprálová
The ensemble performs Kaprálová’s song ’With a White Kerchief He Waves’, arranged by Xandi van Dijk
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‘Your first instrument is your body’ - Matthew Jones’s life lessons
The Welsh violist and violinist and head of chamber music at Guildhall School of Music & Drama on his teaching approach and unconventional journey
Henry Saint-George on performing in New Zealand - From the archive: September 1916
In his column ‘Fiddling About: A record of many wanderings’, violinist and author Henry Saint-George recalls his experiences of playing in New Zealand
Postcard from Port Angeles: Music on the Strait
US correspondent Thomas May returned to Music on the Strait, a chamber music festival on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula, where voice and strings shared the stage before a second day devoted to instrumental chamber music
Pulling at the heartstrings: why record music that has been recorded many times before?
There is no shortage of recordings featuring staple violin repertoire, so why record them again? Violinist Sonia Lee makes the case for why performers and listeners keep coming back to old favourites and how there is always more to say in these pieces, as she releases her album Heartstrings Highlights
The Ukrainian violin sonatas nobody plays – and how to play them
Violinist Oleksii Hamov on Naum Lapynsky’s 1935 Sonata and Mykola Silvansky’s Sonata in A minor (1978): two little-known works whose performance challenges had not previously received detailed analysis in Ukrainian musicology – and what they demand of a duo
‘A commentary on my musical identity and journey’: catching up with Jacques Forestier
The Canadian violinist speaks to The Strad about his career since his joint victory at the 2024 Joseph Joachim Violin Competition, ahead of his debut album release of works close to his heart
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