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Featured Stories: Read opinion pieces and interviews from top players
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‘If this world is changing, so should our approach to teaching’: a case for a holistic education
Emilie Callesen Doulcet, director of the French Connection Academy, explains her organisation’s holistic approach to education – something she believes the traditional system lacks
From sword to bow: Marczi Zöldy
The young Hungarian soldier who became known as virtuoso violinist Marczi Zöldy at the turn of the 20th century was skilled in many areas, not least as a musician and a fencer. Grzegorz Kaproń tells his eventful, colourful life story
Session Report: cellist Steven Isserlis on recording sonatas by Schumann and Moscheles
Cellist Steven Isserlis chats to Peter Quantrill about his new recording of sonatas by Schumann and Moscheles, both written in 1851 during a period that marked a great flourishing of the arts
Opinion: SongHa Choi on ‘aura’ in live performance
In an age of instant digital access to recorded music, violinist SongHa Choi still believes that nothing can compare to the experience of a live performance
‘Once a musician, always a musician’: Itzhak Perlman and Peter Oundjian in conversation
Itzhak Perlman and Peter Oundjian talk about their friendship and shared musical values ahead of their reunion on stage with the Colorado Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
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‘Finding hope in a desolate landscape’: Rebecca Albers on Donghoon Shin’s Celan-inspired viola concerto
Minnesota Orchestra principal violist Rebecca Albers prepares the North American premiere of Donghoon Shin’s Celan-inspired viola concerto Threadsuns.
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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