Teaching – Page 24
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Premium ❘ FeaturePlaying chamber music is the best way for children to learn an instrument
Group activities and chamber music making are the best ways for young players to develop confidence – and enjoy learning, as pedagogue Sheila Nelson argues
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ArticleMusic teacher loses temper with violinist
A music teacher loses his temper with a group of chatting students - with destructive and comic results. A video bound to resonate with frustrated teachers the world over...Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues ...
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FeatureStudying the violin with Ivan Galamian
Since his death Ivan Galamian has passed into legend as perhaps the greatest teacher the string world will ever know. Barbara L. Sand asked some of his ex-pupils whether their former master really lived up to his reputation
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FocusAsk the Experts: how to help a student with a short fourth finger
Strad readers submit their problems and queries about string playing, teaching or making to our experts
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FocusViolinist Eugene Fodor on studying with Jascha Heifetz
American-born Fodor counted among his teachers not only Heifetz, but also Ivan Galamian and Josef Gingold
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BlogsHow violinist Pinchas Zukerman helped me develop my musical voice
25-year-old violinist Asi Matathias discovered the paradoxically liberating power of discipline during his studies with the charismatic performer
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GallerySimon Rattle conducts the first Young Orchestra for London
As part of the Berlin Philharmonic’s week-long London residency in February 2015, the Barbican and Southbank Centres joined forces with the London Symphony Orchestra to launch a new mixed-ability Young Orchestra for London.The ensemble comprised 100 students aged between 11 and 21, of Grade 3 standard and above, ...
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ArticleChristopher Walken shares a Pablo Casals anecdote in the film A Late Quartet
Casals emphasised the good stuff. He encouraged. As for the rest, leave that to the morons, who judge by counting faults. 'I can be grateful,' he said, 'for one singular phrase, one transcendent moment''Christopher Walken describes a meeting with the great cellist Pablo Casals during a scene in ...
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ArticleViolinist Zakhar Bron gives Beethoven masterclass
Most important is that you play with strong expressive character'Violin professor Zakhar Bron gives a masterclass on Beethoven's Romance op.50 in F major. Read more about Bron's teaching philosophies in The Strad's January 2015 issue, out now.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureViolist Yizhak Schotten on studying with William Primrose and Lillian Fuchs
The University of Michigan professor remembers his studies with two very different viola teachers
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ArticleViolinist Ida Haendel gives Royal College of Music masterclass
You need to be more present; you don't want the audience to forget you are here!' Violinist Ida Haendel gives a masterclass for four students at London's Royal College of Music, covering Ravel's Tzigane, Brahms's Violin Concerto, and Enescu's Third Violin Sonata. Read Haendel's views on Brahms's ...
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FocusCellomania: Amsterdam’s Fifth Cello Biennale
With appearances from Mischa Maisky, Gary Hoffman, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Anner Bylsma and 2Cellos, this year's event was not to be missed, writes Heather Kurzbauer
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FocusMusic examiners should be fair and encouraging
As an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Ita Herbert has spent years coaxing the best out of her candidates in the UK and overseas
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ArticleViolinist Zakhar Bron gives masterclass on Bach's Partita no.2
We can play it faster or slower, but most important is to keep the dance-like feel in any speed'Respected tutor Zakhar Bron gives a violin masterclass on Bach's Partita no.2 at the Verbier Festival Academy. The full 104-minute video is available to buy as a download or DVD ...
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ArticleViolinist Zakhar Bron gives Bach masterclass
The playing should never be cramped or colourless. The tutti sections shouldn't be colourless either, but the solo sections must prove † in competition with the ensemble † their sense of individuality'Respected teacher Zakhar Bron gives a masterclass on Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041.Bron is interviewed ...
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov on Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy
You must show off all your virtuosity. You are playing as if you have played this 100 times and it feels too easy † you need to attract more attention'Violin virtuoso Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy. The full 55-minute video is available to buy ...
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FocusViolinist Nona Liddell on studying with female orchestral pioneer Jessie Grimson
Grimson, one of the first women in the Queen’s Hall Orchestra, London, gave her final pupil, Liddell, a solid technique that she still relies on
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FocusViolin professor Maya Glezarova turns 90: former students pay tribute
Mikhail Kopelman, Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Liana Gourdjia recall their studies with the doyenne of the Russian School of violin playing
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman answers student questions
I only get nervous when I suffer a memory lapse. That's when my real creative powers are at work - I'm writing new music and it's not always good!' In 1982 violinist Itzhak Perlman visited the Collegiate School in New York and gave frank and often humorous ...
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FocusCellist Alison McGillivray on studying with Baroque specialist Jennifer Ward Clarke
The Concerto Caledonia performer and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland professor remembers how her teachers encouraged her youthful interest in the Baroque