All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 157
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ArticleAlina Ibragimova
The Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova launched her career at the age of six, playing in the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Four years later, her family moved to England, where she completed her education, winning the London Symphony Orchestra Music Scholarship in 2002. A former member of the BBC ...
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ArticleAlisa Weilerstein
Often likened to the prodigy Jacqueline du Pré, American cellist Alisa Weilerstein made her debut, aged 13, playing Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme with the Cleveland Orchestra. Since then she has performed as soloist with several major symphony orchestras around the world, while also remaining an ...
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ReviewAmerican Classics. Higdon: Amazing Grace, Sky Quartet, Viola Sonata, Dark Wood, String Trio
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Mixed results on a disc of contemporary American chamber musicMusicians: Serafin Quartet: Kate Ransom, Timothy Schwarz (violin) Molly Carr (viola) Lawrence Stomberg (cello) with Eric Stomberg (bassoon) Charles Abramovic (piano)Composer: Jennifer HigdonJennifer Higdon is one of America’s most respected and widely performed contemporary ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter
Exempted from school to dedicate herself full-time to music, German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter was invited by conductor Herbert von Karajan to perform with the Berlin Philharmonic aged 13. By now she has played all over the world, with practically every major symphony orchestra. Although she is ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata
12 cover stars from The Strad 2013 January Félix Lajkó – the boundary-busting horse-whispering fiddler from Hungary February Alisa Weilerstein – Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations March the Calder Quartet – Beethoven's String Quartet op.95 April Christian Tetzlaff – Mozart Violin Concerto no.4 May ...
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ArticleAugustin Hadelich
Aged 15 in 1999, German violinist Augustin Hadelich stopped playing for almost a year after a fire on his family's farm severely burned his upper body. Nevertheless, he managed to resume his solo career, going on to win gold medal at the 2006 Violin Competition of Indianopolis. ...
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ArticleRachel Barton Pine
©Lisa Marie Mazzucco Born in Chicago, the American violinist Rachel Barton Pine debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 10. Despite a serious injury on a train in her twenties, which forced her to take a two-year career break, Pine has since performed with ...
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ArticleYuri Bashmet
The Russian violinist, violist and conductor Yuri Bashmet has steadily forged a reputation as a bold contemporary artist, unafraid of risk-taking. A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Vadim Borisovsky and Fyodor Druzhinin, he was the first violist to perform a solo recital in ...
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ArticleLisa Batiashvili
A student of Ana Chumachenko and Mark Lubotski, Lisa Batiashvili gained international recognition at age 16 as the youngest-ever competitor in the Sibelius Competition. The Georgian violinist has collaborated in chamber music and concerto performances with cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Steven Osborne and in 2006 premiered ...
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ArticleJoshua Bell
The American violinist Joshua Bell began his musical education by attempting to pluck out music on stretched-out rubber bands. Soon afterwards, aged four, he started violin lessons. Taught by pedagogues including Donna Bricht, Mimi Zweig and Josef Gingold, he made his first major professional appearance, aged ...
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ArticleNicola Benedetti
Nicola Benedetti's success from a young age has made her one of the most high-profile violinists in the world today. Born to a half-Scottish, half-Italian mother and an Italian father, Benedetti was brought up in West Kilbride, Scotland. She started the violin aged five and received instruction ...
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ArticleBernard Greenhouse
One of the very few long term students of Pablo Casals, the American cellist Bernard Greenhouse initially pursued a solo career for twelve years. Today, however, he is best remembered as one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio, with whom he played between 1955 ...
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ArticleLeon Bosch
Born in Cape Town, but now a British citizen, Leon Bosch graduated from the University of Cape Town before continuing his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He made his London solo debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1984 and has since appeared ...
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ArticleRenaud Capuçon
French violinist Renaud Capuçon began his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at the age of fourteen, before moving to Berlin to study with Thomas Brandis and Isaac Stern. In 1997, he was invited by Claudio Abbado to become concertmaster of the Gustav ...
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ArticleGautier Capuçon
Gautier Capuçon was born in Chambéry in 1981 and began playing the cello at the age of five. He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris with Philippe Muller and Annie Cochet-Zakine, and later with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna. By his mid-twenties he had already developed ...
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ArticleSarah Chang
Sarah Chang is living proof that child prodigies can develop into fully-fledged artists. The daughter of two Korean musicians, she started learning the violin at the age of four and rose to international prominence before her teens, performing Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1 with Zubin Mehta and ...
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ArticleChristian Tetzlaff
German violinist Christian Tetzlaff began playing the violin at the age of six. He studied with Uwe-Martin Haiberg at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and later with Walter Levin at the University of Cincinnati. His breakthrough as a soloist came in 1988, at the age of 22, when ...
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ArticleDavid Finckel
American cellist David Finckel began his musical studies with his father, Edwin Finckel, making his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations aged 15. From 1979 to 2013 he was the cellist of the Emerson String Quartet, with whom he made over thirty acclaimed recordings. ...
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ArticleDavid Garrett
German violinist David Garrett, who received his first Stradivarius at the age of 11, and, at 13, was the youngest soloist ever to sign an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, is now best known as a record-breaking pop and crossover artist. Together with his band, he gives ...
