All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 464
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VideoTwoSet Violin react to The Strad’s August issue
Brett Yang and Eddy Chen give YouTube viewers their take on appearing in the magazine
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VideoAlina Ibragimova and Alasdair Beatson play for digital West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2020
In this online concert for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2020, streamed on 5 July 2020, violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Alasdair Beatson perform Mozart’s Violin Sonata in E minor K.304, Debussy’s Violin Sonata and Ravel’s Violin Sonata.
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NewsCellist Michael Dahlenburg to join Australian String Quartet
The musician and conductor will take up the post in November 2020, succeeding Sharon Grigoryan
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NewsLondon Music Masters names first organisations signed up to diversity audit tool
The music education charity has launched ‘I’m In’ to tackle racism and all forms of prejudice, and to drive systemic change
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GalleryMy Space: Violin workshops around the world
Some of the most photogenic workspaces to have graced The Strad’s pages in the past few years
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VideoÉbène Quartet talks about life in lockdown and performing Beethoven
Ébène Quartet violinists Pierre Colombet and Gabriel Le Magadure speak from their separate homes about their Beethoven Around the World project, and the life of a quartet separated by lockdown. On the prospect of working together via Zoom, Colombet says: ’Chamber music is aptly named; it’s meant to be played ...
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NewsAudiences to return to Shanghai Symphony Hall
The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra confirms plans for its 2020/2021 season
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VideoA Zoom experiment in quartet playing
Violinist Megan Shung improvises on the video conferencing platform
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NewsGstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy to broadcast live music throughout August
Artists including cellist Sol Gabetta and violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja will perform from various venues in Switzerland’s Saanenland for the Pop-up Festival 2020
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NewsMusic venues in England remain closed despite planned reopening
Fears over second wave of Covid-19 cases prompt government re-think
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NewsViolinist and composer Jessie Montgomery appointed to Mannes School faculty
The New Yorker, 39, will take up the post in the autumn
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VideoA violin recital in a picture gallery
The violinist Darragh Morgan plays solo works by Oliver Knussen, Tansy Davies, Errollyn Wallen and other composers in Royal Holloway University’s Picture Gallery.
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Focus‘There wasn’t any proof that our hard work would pay off. For a long time it didn’t’ – TwoSet Violin on their rise to fame
Violinists and comedy stars Brett Yang and Eddy Chen of TwoSet Violin speak to Kimon Daltas on the process of becoming YouTube sensations
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VideoAnne-Sophie Mutter plays Kreisler’s Caprice Viennois
The violinist plays Kreisler’s Caprcie Viennois, Op.2, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta.
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VideoViktoria Mullova performs Bach Violin Concertos
Viktoria Mullova uses a Baroque bow to perform Bach’s Violin Concertos nos.1 in A minor and 2 in E major with Accademia Bizantina, directed from the harpsichord by Ottavio Dantone. Mullova recorded the works with the ensemble for Onyx in 2013. In The Strad’s August 2020 issue she speaks ...
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NewsCellist Arlen Hlusko joins Bang on a Can All-Stars
The Canadian cellist has been made a permanent member after performing with the group throughout the 2019-20 season
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NewsUK orchestras ‘losing £6 million per month’
The Musicians Union and Association of British Orchestras are calling on the government for additional funding for freelance players
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NewsBBC Proms reveals further details of its live programme
The live Proms will take place over two weeks from Friday 28 August
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FocusA targeted approach to Ševčík will help you to overcome any problem in the repertoire
When using Ševčík cello studies, it pays to plan your practice carefully, says Tomáš Jamník, Artistic director of the Academy of Chamber Music and the Ševčík Academy, in Prague, Czech Republic
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NewsGuildhall School of Music & Drama announces free digital Autumn season
A series of live broadcasts and pre-recorded events from across all School departments will take place from late-September 2020
