All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 473
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NewsLifeline grants from government’s £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund announced
Wigmore Hall and the Philharmonia were among the classical music organisations receiving the biggest funds
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NewsThree quarters of Brits have turned to musical instrument during lockdown, new research shows
Following this research, singer-songwriter Jamie Cullum has pledged to give away his piano to a worthy cause
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NewsBruno Philippe joins Askonas Holt
The French cellist has joined the company’s roster for general management
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NewsSally Beamish to receive OBE
The composer is to receive the honour in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours, for services to music
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NewsViolinist Randall Goosby signs to Decca Classics
The 24-year-old is a former winner of the Sphinx Competition junior division and Young Concert Artists International Auditions
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NewsViolinist Yesong Sophie Lee loaned rare 1687 Stradivari
The violin comes from the master luthier’s early period and is in excellent condition
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NewsBashmet back after Covid-19 hospitalisation
‘Protect yourself from the virus, it’s a very nasty thing,’ Bashmet told reporters
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2021; Nicolas Lupot cello 1823
The Lupot cello is a wonderful piece of controlled craftsmanship, and bears his personal signature on the back
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NewsShortlist announced for 2020 RPS awards
Among the string-playing nominees are Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Timothy Ridout and Lawrence Power
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NewsABO and MU highlight lack of support for orchestral musicians
In an open letter, they point out that over 30% of self-employed musicians have been ineligible for the Self Employed Income Support Scheme
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VideoBelgian-Armenian cellist plays in bombed-out church
Sevak Avanesyan, a Belgian cellist of Armenian descent, plays Komitas’s Krunk in Shusha’s Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, several days after the iconic church was badly damaged in the bombing of the city. Watch: Yo-Yo Ma and Renaud Capucon mark Armistice with Ravel Read: Yo-Yo Ma plays cello ...
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Focus‘You’re never truly ready, but at a certain point you just have to dive in and do it,’ – Dover Quartet on recording Beethoven
After twelve years together, the Dover Quartet is marking its graduation to the ranks of mature ensembles with a new Beethoven recording cycle and a residency at the Curtis Institute. The players speak to Charlotte Smith
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NewsCellist and violinist win 2020 Concert Artists Guild competition
The competition took place entirely online this year
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VideoWest Wycombe Chamber Music Festival: Masterclass with Lawrence Power
Owing to COVID-19, this year Lawrence Power has turned his West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival into a series of videos, released weekly online. In this second video from the festival, Lawrence Power works on the Bartók Viola Concerto with student Kinga Wojdalska. Watch: West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival: opening concert ...
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Focus5 ways in which learning new violin styles can train your musical ear
Too often string teachers shy away from embracing styles outside the Western classical canon, but in doing so they’re ignoring a wealth of useful skills and techniques, writes Julie Lyonn Lieberman
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VideoBravo! Vail's Inside the Music with the Dover Quartet
In this video from this year’s Bravo! Vail festival, the Dover Quartet reflects on how the global pandemic has impacted them as individuals and as an ensemble and perform the 2nd and 3rd movements of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 74, ‘Harp’. The players of ...
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VideoLPO members play Haydn at the National Gallery
In the second of their performances matching chamber music with paintings from the National Gallery, members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra bring together Joseph Haydn’s ‘String trio in C major’ of 1766 and a painting by François-Hubert Drouais. Created only a couple of years apart in the 1760s, they demonstrate ...
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NewsUS violin teacher Norman Bernal dies aged 75
The Peruvian-born violinist was well known in his home state of Georgia
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NewsManchester Camerata appoints new first desk
Violinists Caroline Pether and Katie Stillman are both graduates of the city’s Royal Northern College of Music
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Blogs5 reasons to love Barber’s String Quartet op.11
Scottish Chamber Orchestra violinist Gordon Bragg shares his observations ahead of the SCO’s performance of the work this week - streamed online for free
