All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 501
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NewsYCAT announces addition of 12 musicians to its roster
The twelve musicians will receive support including artist management and performing opportunities
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VideoViolinist Viktoria Mullova performs at the V&A
Mullova joins the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Oliver Zeffman to perform Mozart
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NewsSheku Kanneh-Mason loaned 1700 Gofriller cello
The instrument ‘presents a kaleidoscope of tonal qualities’ and ’has an uncanny capacity to respond’ according to the cellist
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BlogsViolinist György Pauk on his early career and the challenges facing young players today
The leading soloist and Royal Academy of Music professor celebrates 80 years of violin playing in his new autobiography
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VideoViolinist Virgil Boutellis-Taft performs ‘Yumeji’s Theme’ from In the Mood for Love
The recording with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra featured on the violinist’s 2020 album Incantation
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NewsQuartet and violinist receive 2021 Concert Artists Guild prizes
The winners will receive concert opportunities in New York and London following the virtual competition
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ArticleA family tree of Italian violin makers
This illustrated representation of violin making in Italy first appeared in The Strad’s August 1891 issue
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NewsViolin that inspired acclaimed book in need of funds for fixing
The inspiration behind ‘Lev’s Violin, An Italian Adventure’ is the subject of a crowdfunding campaign that seeks to fix the instrument’s broken neck
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VideoThe World Premiere of ‘Bertha’
‘Bertha’, choreographed by Cathy Marston (the brain behind the ROH’s The Cellist) in collaboration with Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet, explores the psyche of Bertha Mason, the love-scorned antagonist of the novel ‘Jane Eyre.’ With a score for violin and handpan, this origin story of ‘the woman in the attic’ marks the ...
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NewsWinners announced at ISB Double Bass Competition
The International Society of Bassists’ virtual event took place on 7 and 8 June at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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VideoIn the Green Room: Interview with Nicola Benedetti
This video features Nicola Benedetti in conversation with Toks Dada, the Southbank Centre’s Head of Classical Music. about her experience of the pandemic and plans for the future. Watch Nicola Benedetti and friends explore the psychology and physicality of playing Watch Nicola Benedetti talks to Sheku Kanneh-Mason Watch Rachel Podger ...
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NewsViolist Yuchen Lu wins 2021 Klein International String Competition
The 22-year-old Chinese musician wins $13,000 and a number of performance contracts
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Focus‘It doesn’t sound like three instruments but a hundred’ – Sitkovetsky Trio
For the Sitkovetsky Trio, the challenge of recording Ravel’s Piano Trio was combining three disparate solo voices to sound as one – but the reward was a performance far greater than the sum of its parts, the players tell Tom Stewart
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VideoMaxim Vengerov plays Bach’s Partita in D minor
The Russian violinist plays Bach’s Partita in D minor No 2, BWV1004 and Handel’s Violin Sonata No 4 in this performance with pianist Vag Papian at the Third International Rostropovich Festival in 2012. Watch Effortless Beethoven from Maxim Vengerov Watch Maxim Vengerov’s daughter Lisa interrupts live masterclass Watch Maxim Vengerov ...
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Focus‘Practise difficult passages while standing on a rickety chair, or spinning around in circles’ – Evan Wilson
The former principal violist of the LA Philharmonic shares ideas to help you improve strength, endurance, flexibilty and control
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FocusChevalier de Saint-Georges: violin virtuoso, composer, champion fencer and French revolutionary officer
This month we’re remembering musical groundbreakers, including violinist Joseph White, whose debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1875 made history as the first time a black soloist had appeared with that orchestra. Read about White’s historic debut in our June 2021 issue. The ...
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News‘We are going to become more and more parochial’: Julian Lloyd Webber hits out at post-Brexit visa rules
The British cellist said it will become ’really difficult’ for musicians ’to carve out a great international career’
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NewsKonstantin Ishkhanov launches Israeli Classic Strings Competition
Winners of the competition for violin and cello in Tel Aviv will share a prize fund worth €210,000
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NewsTai Murray to join Yale School of Music Faculty
The violinist is to take up a position as assistant professor
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BlogsJocelyn Pook on commemorating the children of Terezín through music
The composer shares the motivation and process behind her new album Drawing Life, inspired by the drawing and poetry of the children held in the Terezín Concentration Camp
