All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 400
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VideoA nosebleed won’t stop plucky prodigy Christian Li
Eleven-year-old Australian violinist Christian Li is captured in this video coming to the dramatic end of Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso while suffering a nosebleed. The performance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in a free outdoor concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl was conducted by Benjamin Northey, who ...
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NewsLeopold Mozart Competition announces candidates for 10th edition
Twenty-nine young violinists will compete for a €20,000 first prize and a number of engagements
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ArticleCellist Yo-Yo Ma, two honkers and a dinger on Sesame Street
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, performs 'Beethoven for cello, two honkers and a dinger' on a classic episode of Sesame Street. Read: 9 opinions on performance and career by cellist Yo-Yo Ma
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NewsJohn Adams awarded €150,000 Erasmus Prize
The American composer is praised for making ‘contemporary classical music communicate again’
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Video12-year-old SoHyun Ko plays Paganini: Caprice no.1
From the HeifetzPEG (Program for the Exceptionally Gifted) comes this video of 12-year old South Korean student SoHyun Ko playing the first Caprice by Niccolò Paganini. It was filmed on 26 July 2018 at a HeifetzPEG Showcase Concert at Mary Baldwin University’s Francis Auditorium in Staunton, Virginia.
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VideoViolinist Philippe Quint on the music of Charlie Chaplin
A trailer for Philippe Quint’s new album of arrangements of music by Charlie Chaplin. In the sleeve notes, Quint writes: Growing up in the former Soviet Union in early 1980s during its Communist era, meant that there was little access to art and artists from the West. We were occasionally ...
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BlogsTechnique can be developed, but musicianship is inbuilt, says violist Rivka Golani
In this article from 2016, Toby Deller paid tribute to the pioneering musician and teacher as she celebrated her 70th birthday
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NewsHenry Ford's Stradivarius loaned to Detroit Symphony Orchestra
The 1703 violin was played in concert by the DSO last week
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ReviewIsabelle van Keulen: Prokofiev; Walton; Vaughan Williams
A subtle, unpretentious performance of three works for violin and viola
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VideoHilary Hahn plays Bach in 1997
In this video from 1997 (first 21 minutes), the 17-year-old violinist performs Bach and gives an interview in which, amongst other things, she admits to knowing about 27 concertos off by heart.
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NewsDiana Tishchenko to join roster of Solea Management
The Ukrainian violinist joins a roster that includes Jean-Guihen Queyras and Beatrice Rana
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NewsJACK appointed new Quartet in Residence at Mannes School of Music
The contemporary music ensemble begins ts tenure at the school this autumn, taking over from the Orion String Quartet
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Video‘With Nicky’ 5: Equipment
This week on her video journey, Nicola Benedetti is talking all things equipment: strings, shoulder rests, chin rests, her bow, her beautiful pegs and the violin itself. She also gives us a glimpse inside her violin case. She says, ‘Equipment is something that I have certainly obsessed over a lot ...
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Focus5 tips from Isabelle van Keulen on achieving a relaxed bow hold
The Dutch violinist and violist considers the many processes involved in keeping your bow hold tension-free
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NewsBoston Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Malcolm Lowe to take extended leave
The violinist is taking leave while he recovers from the effects of a concussion that he suffered last March
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NewsUnited Strings of Europe performing new work by Arturo Corrales
The United Strings of Europe, an ensemble made up of young professional musicians from across the continent, launch their New Horizons series tonight in London’s Conway Hall. The ensemble, which has just completed a tour of Lebanon, and is today leading a workshop with refugees and asylum seekers at Amnesty ...
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NewsOklahoma fiddle shop destroyed in fire
Shop belonging to fiddle player Byron Berline in Guthrie burns to the ground with loss of hundreds of instruments
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VideoTomás Cotik performs Bach Largo in 'massive media' work
As part of the Portland Winter Light Festival 2019, the facade of the PSU library becomes a canvas for the projected silhouette of violinist Tomás Cotik. Cotik explains: ‘Ombra’ Musici, (english translation: Musician’s Shadow), is an interdisciplinary work of “massive media.” “Massive media” takes a media form, such as film, ...
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NewsGerman Musical Instrument Fund hands out 54 instruments in 2019 auditions
The fund has chosen 23 new recipients and renewed 31 loans for promising young musicians
