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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2023: c.1610 Maggini viola
This large and beautiful-sounding viola features a one-piece spruce front with unusually wide grain
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Premium ❘ Feature
Violist Cynthia Phelps on studying with William Primrose and Donald McInnes
For some players, only the viola sound will do. But to bring out its full power, the New York Philharmonic violist sought help from a number of teachers, writes Ariane Todes
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Focus
The harmonious string quartet - a balance of four personality types
No one said that living in a quartet was easy - but the most successful groups develop a unique identity that survives vitriolic relationships and even personnel changes, writes Paul Robertson. From 2005
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Premium ❘ Debate
How should string teachers approach an advanced adult pupil?
Understanding the physique and psyche of a new adult pupil should not be taken lightly, writes Pauline Harding
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Blogs
‘When I am in tune, my body knows it’: playing with multisensory aphantasia
How do you tell a story with music when your mind cannot picture images? Violist and clinical telehealth therapist Neesa Sunar explains her tactile approach to music making
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Video
Masterclass: The Takács Quartet performs Brahms’s String Quartet no.3
Violist Richard O’Neill gives his thoughts on performing the work in the November 2021 issue
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News
Bulgarians and Italians take top awards at ANLAI violin making competition
The contest saw a hundred instruments by luthiers from ten countries assessed, with the award ceremony taking place in the historic Church of Santa Maria della Neve
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Review
Book review: Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire
Carlos Maria Solare reviews David M. Bynog’s latest book, the latest in the Notes for Performers series
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Focus
How it started, how it’s going: four top violists share their beginnings
In this compilation of extracts from our regular feature ‘Life Lessons,’ read about how four leading viola players started out on their instrument
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News
Violist Yuchen Lu wins 2021 Klein International String Competition
The 22-year-old Chinese musician wins $13,000 and a number of performance contracts
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News
Winners announced at SVA Violin Makers Competition
The contest, which takes place every two years, was held according to strict Covid-19 guidance
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Review
Book review: The Baroque Violin & Viola: A Fifty-Lesson Course
Simon Standage reviews Walter S. Reiter’s two-volume work on learning to play the period instruments
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News
Musicians criticise easyJet’s changed policy on instruments
Violins and violas among those to be barred as hand luggage from 10 February onwards
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Article
Yuri Bashmet: TikTok star?
The Russian violist considers how to tempt audiences back to the concert hall
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News
Violist Tasso Adamopoulos has died aged 76
The Paris-born musician was also a respected tutor at conservatoires in Lyon and Bordeaux
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Review
Book review: Get Beethoven!
Tully Potter reads the very readable autobiography of Paul Cassidy, violist with the Brodsky Quartet
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Focus
The Strad Calendar 2021: Francesco and Giovanni Grancino viola c.1665
The varnish of the Grancino is most beautiful and wonderfully well preserved
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News
Turkish viola player Ruşen Güneş has died
The 80-year-old, who lived in London, was a keen promoter of music from his homeland
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Focus
6 tips for improved coordination
Guidance from The Strad’s archive for greater synchronisation between left-hand fingers and bow
