All violinist articles – Page 7
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ArticleUltimate violinist's stunt
A fiddler performs violin with his left hand and piano with his right - while another violinist takes on the task of bowing. The ultimate coordination challenge.
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BlogsJoshua Bell on performing and directing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto for the first time
The star soloist and Academy of St Martin in the Fields music director will perform and direct the work with the ensemble in London in November
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Blogs‘Today's violinists make too much effort to produce a large sound,’ says Sasha Rozhdestvensky
The Russian violinist and Royal College of Music, London professor believes today’s playing has become more tense
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ArticleViolinist Joshua Bell performs Eleanor Rigby with Frankie Moreno
Violinist Joshua Bell performs an arrangement of The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby with Frankie Moreno.Read: Joshua Bell on the Stradivarius of his lifeWatch: When they were young - Joshua Bell
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ArticleViolinist Anne-Sophie Mutter performs on Letterman
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter performs 'It Ain't Necessarily So' with pianist André Previn on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2012 in celebration of her 35-year career. Watch: Anne-Sophie Mutter films her performance with a head cam
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NewsYoung violinist and her sister killed in Florida car crash
Brittany and Alexis Musumeci were hit by a vehicle travelling in the wrong direction
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NewsViolinist Jean Ter-Merguerian has died aged 79
The French-Armenian musician was a respected performer and teacher at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory
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NewsNoah Bendix-Balgley steps down officially as Pittsburgh Symphony concertmaster
The 31-year-old violinist will concentrate fully on his other role as Berlin Philharmonic concertmaster
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ArticleViolinist Jascha Heifetz...and goat!
It may be childish, but it tickled our funny bone...A mash-up between Jascha Heifetz performing the finale of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and a particularly vocal (and remarkably in tune) goat.Watch a video of Heifetz imitating bad playing.
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ArticleViolinist Jascha Heifetz imitates bad playing
Violinist Jascha Heifezt gives a wincingly accurate impression of a bad performance he once heard of Vieuxtemps' Fourth Violin Concerto - proving not only his gifts as a performer, but also as a sharply observant comic. Read former Heifetz pupil Sherry Kloss's article: Studying the violin with ...
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NewsViolinist Dennis Kim appointed concertmaster of Buffalo Philharmonic
The Korean-born musician takes up his post this month
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ArticleViolinist Ray Chen reviews fans' up bow staccato videos
Violinist Ray Chen shares his humorous reviews of videos sent in by string players in response to his up bow staccato masterclass.Read The Strad’s 6 ways to improve your staccato.Watch Ray Chen performing Ysaÿe’s Solo Sonata no.6 at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium in 2009 – ...
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NewsRheumatologist, violinist and instrument collector Ephraim P. Engleman has died aged 104
Dr Engleman worked until his death at the University of California, and practised his violin for an hour a day
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Focus6 ways to develop a smooth legato
Tips from The Strad’s Archive on producing a fluid and beautiful tone
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ArticleViolinist David Oistrakh performs Ravel's Tzigane
Violinist David Oistrakh performs Ravel's Tzigane with pianist Frida Bauer. For an entirely different interpretation, watch Patricia Kopatchinskaja perform the work.
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NewsViolinist Daniel Hope wins 2015 European Cultural Prize for Music
The award this year celebrates the 25th anniversary of German Reunification
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NewsViolinist, aged 10, expelled from school for carrying knife for ‘trimming bow hairs’
The student’s parents have requested that a judge overturn the expulsion to prevent ‘defamatory stigma’
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ArticleViolinist Viktoria Mullova performs Prokofiev's Second Concerto
Viktoria Mullova performs the second movement of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto no.2 conducted by Jeffrey Tate. The violinist is releasing an all-Prokofiev album, including the Second Concerto, this week.
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NewsDmitry Smirnov wins 2015 Tibor Varga Violin Competition Sion Valais
The 21-year-old Russian also received the audience prize at the Swiss event
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ArticleViolinist Nemanja Radulović performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy
Nemanja Radulović, who has been named Violin Newcomer of the Year at the 2015 ECHO Klassik awards, performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra at Thétre Antique d'Orange in France. The 30-year-old Serbian signed an international contract with DG at the beginning of 2014. ...