All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 108
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Violinist James Dong takes first prize at Gisborne International Music Competition
Violinist James Dong has won first prize at the Gisborne International Music Competition in New Zealand. The 19-year-old, who studies with Ole Bohn at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, received NZ$8,000. Second prize went to New Zealand trumpeter Thomas Eves. Cellist Minjin Lee, from Singapore, took third prize. Dong ...
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Adès, Birtwistle, Larcher receive prizes at British Composer Awards
Three of the winners at this year's British Composer Awards received their prizes for string compositions. The 2012 awards, given by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, were announced at a ceremony in London's Goldsmiths' Hall on 3 December. Harrison Birtwistle, who has previously been recognised three ...
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Baltimore Symphony to develop amateur musicians programme
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has received $950,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the growth of its BSO Academy programme for adult amateur musicians. The BSO Academy began in June 2010 as a week-long immersive programme giving amateurs the opportunity to learn from and play alongside members ...
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Pioneering violin teacher Eta Cohen dies at 96
Violin pedagogue Eta Cohen, who developed a pioneering teaching method for beginners, has died at the age of 96. Born in Sunderland, UK, to Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania, Cohen studied the violin locally and began teaching after leaving school at the age of 17. She taught privately and ...
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ArticlePlaying cello in the field
In the January 2013 issue we profile Hungarian violinist Félix Lajkó, who has played to Lipizzaner stallions in Vienna. Well here's a cow-whispering Dutch cellist, Harriet Krijgh.
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Kim Kashkashian and Antonio Meneses among artists up for 2013 Grammy awards
The nominees for the 2013 Grammy Awards have been announced, with a scattering of top string players in the mix. Kim Kashkashian is nominated in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category for her ECM recording Kurtág/Ligeti: Viola Music. Antonio Meneses features in the same category for his disc of cello ...
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Cellist Han-Na Chang appointed music director of Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra
The South Korean cellist and conductor Han-Na Chang has been named as the new music director of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra. The 29-year-old will begin her new position in September 2013, taking over from Michalis Economou. Chang, who won first prize at the Rostropovich International Cello Competition in Paris ...
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Cremonese violin making recognised by UNESCO
UNESCO has placed Cremonese violin making on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Lutherie in the Italian city was one of 27 activities and traditions that were added to the list after a UNESCO committee meeting in Paris this month. Others include traditional straw-hat weaving ...
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BlogsLeonidas Kavakos Masterclass
The Greek virtuoso shared his wisdom with Guildhall students. Ariane Todes reports back
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ArticleTeppo-Hauta Aho: Kadenza
In the December issue, bassist David Murray reports on the Bass2012 convention in Copenhagen, where a concert of Teppo-Hauta Aho's music was a highlight. Here's Enrico Fagone performing at the concert.
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Jazz bassist Charlie Haden to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Grammys
Jazz bassist and composer Charlie Haden has been named as one of the recipients of this year's Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards. Haden was honoured for his work with artists including Ornette Coleman, Chet Baker, John Coltrane and Dexter Gordon. The award citation described the 75-year-old as 'an all-American jazz ...
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Los Angeles Philharmonic appoints Robert deMaine as principal cellist
Cellist Robert deMaine has accepted the job of principal cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The latter's music director, Gustavo Dudamel, offered deMaine the position after the cellist completed a trial week with the orchestra earlier this year. DeMaine, who has been principal cellist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra ...
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ArticleBartók: Divertimento for string orchestra
In the January 2013 issue, Bradley Creswick discusses playing the first violin part of Bartók's Divertimento. Here's a performance of the first movement by I Solisti di Zagreb
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FocusCharlie Chaplin the violinist
The great screen comedian, who died on Christmas Day, 1977, was an accomplished amateur violinist who composed many of the scores to his films. Ariane Todes looks at the central role the violin played in his life
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Italian student uses Facebook in search for violin stolen in Florence
A 20-year-old Italian violin student has set up a Facebook page to appeal for the safe return of her stolen instrument. The violin, a 1989 Guadagnini-model Claude Lebet valued at €15,000, was snatched at Florence's Santa Maria Novella station on Monday 17 December. The Catania-born owner, Gemma Raneri, ...
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Ligeti Quartet channels Noël Coward in theatrical performance
As part of its Park Lane Group concert in London's Purcell Room on 11 January, the Ligeti Quartet gives the world premiere of a work that asks its performers to act as well as play. Hay Fever, by London-based composer and mezzo-soprano Laura Bowler, is inspired by Noël Coward's ...
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DebateRise to the challenge
It's new repertoire that will attract 21st-century audiences to the concert hall, argues violinist Joel Smirnoff – and string players should be spearheading the revolution
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ReviewShostakovich: Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor op.99. Barber: Violin Concerto op.14
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Authoritative performances marred by unhelpful recorded balanceMusicians: Dylana Jenson (violin) London Symphony Orchestra/David LockingtonComposer: Shostakovich & Barber Dylana Jenson’s career has been a patchy saga of early success in the 1980s scuppered by the removal of a loaned Guarneri. ...
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ReviewSouvenir. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for strings in C major op.48, Souvenir de Florence op.70 Nielsen At the Bier of a Young Artist, Suite for string orchestra op.1
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Surround sound brings a new aural experience to music for string orchestraMusicians: Trondheim SoloistsComposer: TchaikovskyRecorded in the round, all four pieces here place the listener in the centre of the aural picture, but the distribution of the players around the ...
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ReviewHaydn: String Quartets op.76 nos.1–6
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Haydn performances where the jokes too often fall flatMusicians: Wilanów QuartetComposer: Haydn The award-winning Wilanów players invest their wealth of experience and artistic sensibility in these recordings of Haydn’s popular op.76 set. Their readings are civilised, warm-toned and technically ...
