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Featured Stories: Read opinion pieces and interviews from top players
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‘Music can allow time to absorb what just happened’ - Q&A with composer Mary Kouyoumdjian
Ahead of its premiere recording by the ensemble Alarm Will Sound, composer and documentarian Mary Kouyoumdjian discusses her sonic documentary, Paper Pianos, which tells the story of four refugees
Outside the practice room: the value of summer festivals
Violinist Hector Scott shares what a summer in rural Vermont taught him about performance, perfectionism and why musicians sometimes need to escape the institutions that trained them
Colorado Music Festival: 50 years of music beneath Boulder’s Flatirons
Davina Shum reports back from the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, a hidden gem of a festival that celebrated music making with a sense of community, conviviality and commemoration of America in its myriad identities
Beyond Technique: recording Beethoven, finding flow
With the release of the Rautio Trio’s latest Beethoven album, violinist Jane Gordon explores how her holistic approach to playing has helped her embrace creativity when recording with fortepiano
Session Report: cellist Alban Gerhard on recording the Dvořák and Elgar concertos
German cellist Alban Gerhardt tells Jessica Duchen about challenging entrenched performance habits and returning to the composers’ markings in his recordings of the Dvořák and Elgar concertos
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That vacation feeling: violinist María Dueñas takes inspiration from Aspen’s nature at her festival debut
The violinist spoke to Davina Shum ahead of her Aspen Music Festival debut about how Colorado’s magnificent landscapes helped inform her recital programme of Schubert, Mozart and Brahms
Artists as athletes: why musicians should look after their bodies like sportspeople
Violinist Laura Frautschi shares her experiences and approaches to maintaining a high level of physical and mental endurance as a musician, drawing parallels between the demands of professional musicians and elite athletes
Opinion: Theatre improv games in teacher training
Actors’ improvisation games should also be used for training string teachers to help strengthen their in-the-moment communication skills, says violinist and teacher Carmen Lasceski-Custers
Analysis August 2026: The Sphinx Organization thirty years on
Three decades since its creation, the Sphinx Organization has helped countless Black and Latino musicians in their musical careers. But how much has the landscape changed in that time?
Brett Dean: the music from within
Australian composer and violist Brett Dean has long drawn on his experience from playing inside the orchestra to shape his own music. He tells Jessica Duchen about how his writing and playing continue to inform each other
A Trio in search of its composer: the Brahms Trio that may not be Brahms
A piano trio once attributed to Brahms has largely vanished from the repertoire. But after living with the work in preparation for a new recording, Trio E.T.A. discovered why the question of its authorship remains so compelling. Cellist Nadja Reich shares the ensemble’s approach
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