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How to prepare for a competition: Van Kuijk Quartet, Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition
Former violist of the Van Kuijk Quartet, Grégoire Vecchioni outlines the ensemble’s strategies which led to its success at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in March 2015
The following is an extract from ‘Strategies for Success’, The Strad’s article on preparing for competitions, published in the September 2015 issue
We were quite meticulous about our practice regime before the Wigmore competition. Cellist François Robin joined the quartet about six months earlier,so we started to schedule our practice time methodically at that point, deciding which of the quartets we knew the least well and which demanded the most detailed practice, and making sure we were all prepared before each rehearsal.
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