All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 477
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VideoGrand Teton Music Festival on location: New York
This concert from the Grand Teton Music Festival on location series (a 5-concert digital chamber music series featuring small ensembles, recorded and produced remotely in the home cities of Festival Orchestra musicians ) was held at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Avenue, New York on 12 November, with a programme ...
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NewsPolish National Violin Competition Zdzisław Jahnke announces prizes
$7600 will be divided amongst this year’s laureates.
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NewsViolinist Leila Josefowicz to livestream world premiere
Josefowicz will perform a new work by Matthias Pintscher at contemporary New York art gallery Hauser & Wirth this Friday - free to view online
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NewsHuddersfield Contemporary Music Festival heads online this weekend
Two days and three nights of cutting-edge new music from the UK and around the world
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FocusCello varnish badly damaged in calamitous hand sanitiser spill
The repair job on the instrument’s coating took more than 80 hours
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2021: Giovanni Battista Rogeri cello 1695
The arching of the Rogeri is flat, unlike the bulbous forms of most of his contemporary makers
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NewsCity Music Foundation announces its new artists
The ten artists were chosen from over 140 applicants
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VideoNicola Benedetti and friends play Ernest Bloch’s Prayer
In this video, Nicola Benedetti and musical colleagues play a new arrangement by the Ayoub Sisters of Ernest Bloch’s ‘Prayer’ (originally composed in 1924 for Cello and Piano) - commissioned by the luxury furniture-making company Maker&Son in support of The Benedetti Foundation. This performance also features Yume Fujise and Charlie ...
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Focus‘I hope our Bach might give another musician a slight push to keep going a little longer’ – Tim Crawford
The three Tims of the Teyber Trio (cellist Tim Posner, violist Timothy Ridout and violinist Tim Crawford) talk about their genesis as a group, playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and finding the motivation to rehearse during the time of COVID
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NewsFree-to-watch online concert will celebrate 100 years of The Lark Ascending
Jennifer Pike will play Vaughan Williams’s masterpiece at Shirehampton Public Hall, where its world premiere took place 100 years ago
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NewsNew partnership between Music Masters and YCAT gets underway with a new series
A YCAT artist will give a session to a KS2 Musicianship class via Zoom once a month
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NewsShanghai Quartet announces new member
Angelo Xiang Yu joins the group as its new second violinist
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Focus‘I’m a classically-trained violinist, but I’d love to play Jazz. How do I start?’
The genre-bending Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis shares his top 7 tips
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VideoIrish cellist Patrick Dexter gives lockdown performance against scenic backdrop
The Irish cellist Patrick Dexter, from County Mayo, has been giving regular performances outside in his backyard since the beginning of lockdown in March, playing music ranging from Schubert to traditional Irish folksongs. For more videos of Dexter performing, follow him on YouTube. Watch: Elton John’s ...
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NewsWinners announced for Pablo Casals International Award 2020
First prize went to the 16-year-old Chinese cellist Xuanhan Xu
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FocusHow did Jascha Heifetz’s interpretations evolve over his lifetime?
The development of the great violinists from fresh young artists to profound musical thinkers can be charted through their recorded interpretations. Nathaniel Vallois uses his time in lockdown to examine changes in the playing style of some of the best-known names
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VideoXuanhan Xu, winner of Pablo Casals International Award 2020, performs for competition audition
In this final audition video for the Pablo Casals International Award 2020, the competition winner, 16-year-old Xuanhan Xu, performs JS Bach’s Cello Suite No.3 and the first movement of Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129. Read: Winners announced for Pablo Casals International Award
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NewsCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra launches activities for older people in care home settings
Cuppa Concerts: At Home is a series of filmed concerts, specially designed for older people living in care settings, to watch from home
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NewsSphinx Competition semi-finalists announced
Prizes totalling nearly $100,000 are available at the contest for US-based Black and Latinx string players
