All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 440
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NewsNicola Benedetti wins Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Violinist, who performed at the ceremony, described the recording project as ‘a deeply edifying experience’
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NewsPrize winners announced at Elmar Oliveira Violin Competition
Nineteen year old US violinist Julian Rhee clinches $30,000 first prize
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NewsViolin played by woman in Auschwitz given new life by Yehudi Menuhin School pupils
18-year-old Kingsley Lin and 17-year-old Ezo Dem Sarici now play the instrument, once belonging to a member of the Auschwitz Women’s Orchestra
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NewsJuilliard string faculty appoints two new double bassists
Joseph H. Conyers and Rex Surany join the faculty from this spring semester
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VideoNicola Benedetti performs at 2020 Grammys
Watch Nicola Benedetti perform Fiddle Dance Suite at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony, which took place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday 26 January.
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NewsViolist Tabea Zimmermann wins 2020 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
German musician praised for bringing the viola ‘into the consciousness of the contemporary music world’
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VideoSheku Kanneh-Mason and the Heath Quartet play Spring Song by Frank Bridge
Watch this new video of Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the Heath Quartet recording Spring Song by Frank Bridge. The piece is the second of Bridge’s 4 Short Pieces H.102 for violin and piano (1912), here scored in a new arrangement by Simon Parkin. The recording features on Kanneh-Mason’s new album, Elgar, ...
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NewsCoronavirus threatens Boston Symphony Orchestra tour to Asia
US issues Level 3 warning advising against ‘all non-essential travel to China’
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NewsPrizes announced at the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation string quartet competition
The competition is open to young European ensembles
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VideoAspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Sarah Chang
Violinist Sarah Chang shares a moment from her childhood when she first learnt what it means to be part of an orchestra ‘from the inside’
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NewsBoston Symphony Orchestra cancels East Asia tour over coronavirus concerns
Decision follows government agency advice and consultations with the tour’s presenters
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FocusJerry Horner on talent and practice
In February last year, former Fine Arts Quartet violist Jerry Horner died at the age of 83. Here, his past student James Dickenson shares part of his philosophy of learning, drawing on interviews with Margaret Clements, his widow
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VideoYehudi Menuhin School student on a violin once played in Auschwitz
In this video, 18-year-old Kingsley Lin, who is currently studying at the Yehudi Menuhin School, performs on a violin once played by Rosa Levinsky in the Auschwitz Women’s Orchestra. Levinsky spent the last five months of the war in Bergen-Belsen, and on being released in 1945, was transferred to a ...
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NewsJan Vogler’s contract as director of the Dresden Music Festival is extended
Jan Vogler is to remain director of the Dresden Music Festival
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VideoLawrence Power plays a Brexit Polka
A timely little polka from British violist Lawrence Power. Listen carefully to hear all 28 (current) European national anthems.
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FocusWhat do violinists Sarah Chang and Hilary Hahn keep in their instrument cases?
Ever wondered what players keep in their instrument cases, apart from their Strads? We talk to some well-known performers to discover the secrets they hold
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FocusI know that I know nothing: Tomás Cotik concludes his series on Bach
Ahead of his 2020 album release of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, the violinist concludes his blog series, in which he discusses the contradictions between the opposing trends and traditions in Bach interpretation, and his personal solutions to them.
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VideoAlisa Weilerstein deconstructs the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite no.1 in G major
The American soloist offers her insight into how Bach created music of such timelessness
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NewsDwight Shambley, founder of Dallas Symphony’s Young Strings, has died
Double bassist founded education programme to address diversity imbalance in professional orchestras
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VideoGlass fibre cello used to play Takemitsu
Carbon fibre instruments have been introduced on the market for a couple of years. A research team from Ghent University and School of Arts Gent has been investigating the use of composite materials for string instruments. Now, one of their prototypes, a cello made from glass fibre by luthier Tim ...
