All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 414
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NewsJoshua Brown wins Leopold Mozart Competition
The American violinist wins €20,000, a CD production package and performance invitations
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NewsAnna Im wins Michael Hill International Violin Competition
The South Korean violinist receives NZ$40,000, a recording contract, a tour across New Zealand and Australia and a professional development programme
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VideoSheku Kanneh-Mason gives schools-only performance
After a schools-only performance in Birmingham from Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, pupils talk about their impressions of the two musicians.
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Video11-year-old Teo Gertler plays Mendelssohn
The 11-year-old Slovak violin prodigy Teo Gertler plays Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
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Video‘With Nicky’ 12: Ask Nicky
This week, ‘With Nicky’ becomes ‘Ask Nicky’ as Nicola Benedetti answers some of your questions. The violinist says: ‘After recording this, however, we realised I never actually answered the most asked question! - What is your shoulder rest? ‘The super duper attentive amongst you may have noticed a change ...
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VideoYo-Yo Ma makes speech after receiving honorary Dartmouth degree
On Sunday 9th June, Dartmouth College awarded the cellist Yo-Yo Ma an honorary doctor of arts degree at its 2019 commencement. Here he is, immediately afterwards, delivering the main address and playing the cello to 11,000 attendees.
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NewsLive Music Now founder-president Ian Stoutzker receives knighthood
Stoutzker is best known for Live Music Now, the musical charitable initiative he created with Yehudi Menuhin in 1977
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NewsYuri Sheykhet has died
The violinist, who played in the world premiere of Shostakovich’s Symphony No 13, was 85
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NewsAnne-Sophie Mutter receives Polar Music Prize at Stockholm ceremony
The violinist praises Swedish role models, from the stories of Pippi Longstocking to environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg
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VideoRay Chen: What do you do when your E-string breaks in a concert?
In a break from practice, Ray Chen sets himself a challenge to play as if his E string has just broken while admitting that it is not something you can defend against or even practise for – and therefore not worth worrying about either
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NewsDouble bass travelling with Air Canada arrives soaking wet
Extensive varnish damage suffered by instrument which bassist Michael Gaisbacher had received on trial less just a few days earlier
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NewsFull details for Anne-Sophie Mutter & John Williams album
Violinist and legendary film composer team up for virtuoso violin versions of movie themes from Star Wars to Harry Potter
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NewsBordeaux International String Quartet Competition announces winners
The Marmen and Simply Quartets will each receive a three-year international tour
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VideoPatricia Kopatchinskaja takes on acting role in Karl Schwitters’s Ursonate
In another life, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja might have been an actor, as demonstrated by this trailer for a film version of ‘Ursonate’, a sound poem by the early 20th-century German artist Karl Schwitters, in which Kopatchinskaja puts her acting talents to serious test.
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NewsBernard Haitink to retire from conducting
The 90-year-old Dutch conductor will make his last podium appearance in September
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VideoBrian Paul Benning plays a 1997 Viola d’amore
Brian Paul Benning - Artist-in-Residence at the 65-year-old family-run business Benning Violins in Los Angeles, California - plays a Viola d’amore crafted by violinmaker Eric Benning in 1997.
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NewsFischoff Chamber Music Competition announces winners
Gold Medals went to the Merz Trio in the Senior String Division and the Fervida Trio in the Junio String Division
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VideoKyung Wha Chung plays Schumann's Violin Sonata No 2 in 1997
In this video from 1997, the 30th anniversary of her international debut, Kyung Wha Chung plays Schumann’s Violin Sonata No 2
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NewsAir Canada’s cello netting system
Over-the-top or a sensible precaution? This rigorous approach to tying down cellos is dividing opinion
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VideoCharlie Siem records his first composition
In this video, violinist Charlie Siem talks us through the experience of recording his first composition, ‘Canopy’, which was featured on his Sony Classics album ‘In The Stars.’
