All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 448
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NewsTarisio announces auction to benefit musicians affected by Covid-19
Tarisio presents GiveBack, a special auction to benefit the musicians who have been profoundly affected by COVID-19.
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VideoWorking from home: Kronos Quartet introduces ‘Ask Kronos Anything’
David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt and Sunny Yang from the Kronos Quartet introduce ‘Ask Kronos Anything’, a new series in which they answer questions from the public online.
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FocusAcademy of St Martin in the Fields on their current music director Joshua Bell
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields celebrates its 60th anniversary this season with a 60-CD box set of its celebrated recordings, and tours to Europe and the US. Toby Deller speaks to some of the orchestra’s long-standing string players about the experience of playing under their current music ...
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NewsBenedetti Foundation announces online daily music lessons
As part of the programme, Nicola Benedetti is to host three sessions a week ‘Live at Five’ on her channels every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
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NewsNew Music Emergency Covid-19 Solidarity Fund increased
The New Music Solidarity Fund, an initiative aimed to grant emergency funding to musicians impacted by COVID-19, has increased its funds to $270,000
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NewsSt John’s Smith Square introduces free ticket scheme for NHS staff
‘Pay it forward’, a new project at the London concert venue, aims to fund free tickets for National Health Service workers
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NewsUK cellist Martin Loveday dies of coronavirus
The 62-year-old performed with a number of leading London ensembles
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NewsIndianapolis Symphony Orchestra suspends payment for musicians
The orchestra has cancelled all performances until 27 May and is placing its musicians in unpaid furlough
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NewsNew technology turns violins into digital music creators
Inventors Alessandro Baticci and Rafal Zalech have begun a Kickstarter campaign to launch the product
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NewsBBC Proms delays announcement of season
In response to the uncertainty resulting from the Covid-19 crisis, the BBC Proms have delayed the announcement of their 2020 season
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NewsFrench double bassist Gildas Delaporte has died
The French double-bass player, a member of the South Netherlands Philharmonic who also composed chansons and played the carillon, has died aged 54
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VideoWorking from home: Augustin Hadelich
The German-American violinist plays both the violin and piano parts of Kreisler’s Liebesfreud. The recording was made on 6 April 2020 in Hadelich’s home during the coronavirus lockdown. Hadelich writes: ’Here is “Liebesfreud” by Fritz Kreisler, one of his most joyful pieces. I love the line in the piano answering ...
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NewsNicola Benedetti is to release a new Elgar album and ‘Salut d’Amour’ project
Video: Elgar With Nicky
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VideoWorking from home: UriPoste Jukebox
Locked down in Philadelphia, violinist Elena Urioste and her pianist husband Tom Poster invited people on social media to send in requests for pieces they could arrange and film themselves playing. Here, as a belated 21st birthday present for cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who asked if we might arrange some Bob ...
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NewsJennifer Koh commissions new works for ‘Alone Together’ project
The violinist has commissioned 21 composers to donate a new work and to nominate 21 freelance composers for new commissions
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NewsCleveland Orchestra announces audition for vacant concertmaster seat
The seat has been vacant since October 2018, when its previous occupant was fired over allegations of sexual misconduct
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VideoWorking from home: violinist Peter Biely plays Falla to his own guitar accompaniment
The Slovak violinist Peter Biely plays Falla’s/Kreisler’s ’Spanish Dance’ with his own improvised guitar accompaniment
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NewsWest Cork Chamber Music Festival is cancelled
The 25th West Cork Chamber Music Festival has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis
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VideoHomespun Miniatures by Alex Woolf
As part of ‘At Home with LMP’ , the online initiative launchedthree weeks ago, the London Mozart Players is releasing a series of ‘Homespun Miniatures’ written by award-winning young composer Alex Woolf, the first of which had its premiere on Channel 4 News last week. Watch it here. The second ...
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VideoAn interview with luthier Renato Scrollavezza
The violin maker, who died in 2019, was one of the leading figures of Italian violin making in the 20th century
