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  ‘Literally the hardest thing I’ve ever had to learn to do’: Pedro Pascal to play cellist in upcoming film

  The Chilean-American actor will star in Behemoth!, a drama about a family of Los Angeles musicians

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  Combining virtuosity with opera: violinist Hannah Cho honours Vienna with Carmen Fantasie Brillante

  Violinist Hannah Cho presents a music video of Hubay’s Carmen Fantasie Brillante filmed in Vienna’s Palais Ehrbar, exploring the theatrical side of the repertoire

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  Yo‑Yo Ma joins Kakuma refugee collective Exile Key for ‘Yelele Mama’

  The cellist visited the the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwestern Kenya, resulting in a collaboration released in honour of World Refugee Day

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  Teaser trailer drops for Singaporean animated film ‘The Violinist’

  Set in Singapore and Malaya over the course of the 20th century, the animated feature film is a co-production between Singapore, Spain and Italy

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  From prison to performance: new film spotlights violinist Christian Howes’s artistic transformation

  A trailer for Redemption Time highlights violinist Christian Howes’s path from prison to an artistic career, in a collaborative film blending music, poetry and personal narrative

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  A violinist and three cellists walk into a studio: Emerald Strings rethinks ‘Bolero’

  Violinist and leader of Emerald Strings, Gregory Harrington, shares his thoughts behind a unique and viral performance of Ravel’s masterpiece

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  After hours at Guildhall Art Gallery: Vilde Frang and Lawrence Power perform ‘Capricci’

  The work will feature in the upcoming multimedia concert event at the Barbican, Darkness Visible, curated by Power’s production company, Âme

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  Merging cello and voice: Nicolas Altstaedt and Anna-Lena Elbert perform ‘Ophelia’s Song’ by Shostakovich

  The cellist and singer perform the haunting song at ConcertLab in Utrecht

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  Watch: a video performance from Timothy Ridout’s new album, Alto Appassionato

  Ridout and pianist Jonathan Ware perform ’Les Berceaux’ from Three Songs, op.23: no.1, by Fauré

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  Woven from Light: a listening guide to a world premiere work for violin and cello

  Following the world premiere of Woven from Light by David Philip Hefti, cellist Gabriel Schwabe offers a listening guide to the new work, written for himself and violinist Hellen Weiss

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  Happy birthday Florence Price! Mount Vernon Virtuosi CelloGang performs String Quartet in G major

  Florence Price was born on this day in 1887. Amit Peled and his cello students commemorate the American composer with an arrangement of her 1929 quartet for cello ensemble

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  Guitar textures on the violin: Tomás Cotik performs Albéniz’s ‘Asturias’

  Tomás Cotik performs Albéniz’s Asturias in a transcription for solo violin and discusses some of the technical challenges of bringing this guitar classic to the violin, reflecting on his personal connection to Spanish music, shaped in part by his Fulbright sabbatical year in Spain

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