All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 499
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ArticleBergen International Festival features young talent and composer Missy Mazzoli
Other artists to appear include violinists Johane Dalene and Ragnhild Hemsing and the Trondheim Soloists
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NewsJoseph Joachim violin competition announces competitors
The 36 hopefuls will be required to play solo and chamber repertoire, as well as direct an orchestra to be in with a chance of winning the €30,000 top prize
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VideoIntroduction to the hardanger fiddle
Violinist and hardanger fiddle player Ragnhild Hemsing demonstrates the beauty of Norway’s national instrument
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NewsThe Strad June 2021 issue is out now!
We talk to South Korean violinist Bomsori about her Deutsche Grammophon deubt and being ‘addicted’ to pushing her limits
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NewsBomsori: 'I always thought, “I am just not brilliant enough for Wieniawski"'
The South Korean violinist tells us why playing Wieniawski made the composer and his music feel more ‘human’
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VideoBomsori plays Wieniawski Violin Concerto no.2
The violinist’s 2016 performance from 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań, Poland
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ArticleBBC Proms 2021 lineup announced
Stars of the strings world will join live audiences this summer at the world’s biggest classical music festival
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VideoJoshua Bell plays Piazzolla with Chamber Orchestra of Havana
Summer from the composer’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, part of a 2016 performance at New York’s Lincoln Center
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NewsUK music school ‘vicariously liable’ for sex abuse by violin teacher
Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester has been ordered to pay £45,000 in damages for assaults carried out in the late 1990s
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Article‘Like hitting a brick wall again and again’ – Yulia Chaplina on Prokofiev’s F minor Violin Sonata
Alongside violinist Thomas Gould, pianist Yulia Chaplina performed music by Prokofiev and Weinberg to a live audience at London’s Kings Place this week
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ArticleGermany pledges €2.5bn for Covid-hit arts sector
The money will give assurances to events organisers in the event of forced cancellations due to Covid-19
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VideoEffortless Beethoven from Maxim Vengerov
A performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto from the 2011 Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, of which Vengerov was jury chairman
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GalleryFermata Festival Gallery
When the UK went into lockdown in March 2020, and artists across the country found themselves suddenly looking at an empty work diary, many took on other jobs, from delivery driving to brick-laying, to make ends meet. A sizeable number of classical musicians searched for a new outlet for their ...
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FocusWhat can musicians learn from working with dancers?
Pauline Harding attends workshops, talks to early music specialists and pioneering modern players, and discovers a whole new approach to interpreting classical music
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VideoJuilliard School: Emerging Artists and Art Forms
This video from the Juilliard School features new interdisciplinary works from composers, VR artists and performers working with new performance technologies. This is part of Emerging Artists and Art Forms, a platform for students who share an interest in experimental art and interdisciplinary collaboration. All works feature live performances with ...
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NewsEUFSC announces Chamber Classic International Competition in Israel
The inaugural edition of the Chamber Classic International Competition will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel, from 23 May to 1 June 2022
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VideoGil Shaham on the advice he received from mentors
As part of the Dorothy DeLay MasterClass Series, organized and directed by the violinist and teacher Dmitri Berlinsky, violinist Gil Shaham talks about his teachers Samuel Bernstein and Dorothy DeLay, advice he received from Isaac Stern and more. Watch Perlmans on the golden era of the violin school
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NewsEgmont Trio takes first prize at ‘Beethoven in His Time’ Competition
The group, founded in 2019, receives €15,000 and a Naxos recording
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VideoKeila Wakao’s prize-winning performance at the 2021 Menuhin Competition Junior Finals
The 15-year-old Japanese violinist performs works by Bloch, Bates and Wieniawski
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NewsCellist Lev Evgrafov dies aged 86
One of the Soviet Union’s most celebrated cellists, he was often accompanied by his mother on piano
