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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments
US violinist Stella Chen won first prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition. The 26-year-old, who studies at the Juilliard School with Li Lin and Catherine Cho and at the New England Conservatory with Donald Weilerstein, receives €25,000, a CD recording, engagements and the four-year use of the 1708 ...
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NewsNew Products: July 2019
Turning heads The past few years have seen an explosion in the number of musicians who, instead of using traditional paper parts, play from a digital file displayed on a tablet computer. Now, a team of audio engineers from the University of Jaén in the Spanish city ...
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FeatureA Royal Occasion – Postcard from Windsor
A castle setting, an enticing top prize and some highly promising string players were what Tom Stewart encountered at the Windsor Festival International String Competition final in March
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn focus: a 1782 cello by William Forster II
Bradley Strauchen-Scherer examines an instrument from Britain’s foremost dynasty of violin and cello makers
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Regluing split corner-blocks
A reliable method for rejoining blocks split for a restoration, particularly useful for cello repairs
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Baroque to the future
Luthier Mathijs Heyligers has recently completed a project to give the same Baroque set-up to a chamber orchestra’s entire string section. What happened – and how did it change the sound?
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Rodney Friend on Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Spanish dance and Heifetz are two of Rodney Friend’s biggest influences in this popular showpiece
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: July 1939
Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky gives a first-hand account of his flight from Russia into Poland
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NewsNew Products: June 2019
Straight to the point Can changes to an overlooked part of the cello anatomy help improve your sound? Matt Schiebold, founder of Cube Acoustics, and cellist with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra in Ohio, US, set out to create an endpin that matched the rest of his instrument ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: June 1929
In his monthly Random Notes column, the anonymous ‘Ike’ discusses the arrival of the talkies, and the collective panic they’ve caused among cinema musicians
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Philip Dukes on Mozart Sinfonia Concertante
Idiosyncrasies, ensemble and eloquence help Philip Dukes to bring out the magic of Mozart in the first movement of this much-loved concerto for violin and viola
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: The fine-tuned universe
The harmonic properties of a string’s afterlength have been examined in the past – but what about the ‘before-length’, from the peg to the top nut? André Theunis and Gunnar Gidion find some surprising results in their investigations.
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Charlélie Dauriat
A glimpse into the workshop of the luthier based in the Château de Gourville, France
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Making a mould and rib structure for a copy of an old instrument
A method that compensates for the differences in outline of the front and back plates
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn focus: c.1870 viola by Carl Mettus Weis
Jens Stenz examines a c.1870 viola by the Danish maker
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Premium ❘ NewsTop lots from the London sales
A record-breaking Gofriller and possibly the oldest British viola drew Kevin MacDonald’s attention in the March auctions
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the Month: June 2018
Bringing a unique, personal approach to music for a friend
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DebateOpinion: How should a musician respond to a string breaking on stage?
Nobody can blame a musician for their string breaking on stage. But, says Charlotte Gardner, the way a performer responds is certainly within their grasp
