All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 510
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FocusEsther Yoo: ‘I try to share my journey so that people are aware of the challenges, not just the fancy end product’
Our August issue cover star Esther Yoo illustrates how she uses social media to share her musical knowledge and dispel the mystique of an international concert career
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ReviewBook review: Gone: a Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
Catherine Nelson reviews Min Kym’s memoir about the calamitous theft of her 1696 Stradivari from outside a London cafe
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VideoEddy Chen’s Kreutzer Etude no.33 tutorial
Eddy Chen from TwoSet Violin offers tips on how to play double stops smoothly
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NewsDartington Arts cuts short first week of summer school and festival
The decision comes after one person tested positive for Covid-19
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NewsRandall Goosby to receive 2022 Sphinx Medal of Excellence
The violinist is among one of the recipients of the award that celebrates exceptional classical musicians of colour
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FocusThe ‘Ševčík Colony’: the global spread of a master pedagogue
In this extract from the December 2009 issue, Endre Granat outlines the international movements of violin professor Otakar Ševčík in the early 20th-century
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VideoViolinist Esther Yoo shares her first concert dresses
Our August issue cover star has been performing for most of her life. Here Esther Yoo shows her followers some very small dresses
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NewsAlexander Edelmann appointed principal double bass of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
The German-American double bassist will begin his new role in October 2021
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NewsNew violinists for the Navarra String Quartet
Benjamin Marquise Gilmore and Laia Valentin Braun have been appointed the new first and second violinists for the London-based quartet
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Premium ❘ FeatureViolin modal analysis – part two: Good vibrations
In the second of a two-part article from July 2009, Joseph Curtin continues his investigation of the low-frequency resonances that influence a violin’s acoustic behaviour
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VideoLa Folia performed by Benedetti Foundation mass collective
The Benedetti Foundation marked the end of its three-week Baroque Virtual Sessions programme with a finale concert
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Focus‘A complete workout for the bow’ - violist Patricia Pollett’s study of choice
In this extract from 2012, viola professor at the University of Queensland Patricia Pollett shares why Ševčík’s op.2 no.5 allows players to focus on a variety of bowstrokes, and why it’s more difficult than it looks
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FocusA blessing in disguise: recording Piazzolla’s works during a pandemic
In this extract from the August issue Session Report, violinist Karen Gomyo shares the challenges imposed by Covid-19 that resulted in unprecedented upsides while recording her new album of works by Piazzolla
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NewsCellist and conductor Allan Stephenson has died
The musician, conductor and composer was 71 years old
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NewsSilkroad and New England Conservatory to broadcast Global Musician Workshop online festival
The culmination of the week-long professional development programme will be broadcast for free on Facebook and YouTube on 13 and 14 August
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Focus‘Good grief, there are 40 of them!’ - Alexander Baillie on Popper studies
In this extract from August 2013, cellist Alexander Baillie shares his experiences of the studies as well as strategies for students embarking on learning them
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Focus‘Makers should pay attention to these three modes’ - Joseph Curtin on violin acoustics
In the August 2021 issue, Joseph Curtin examines the evolution of neck setting. Twelve years ago he looked into a violin’s acoustic behaviours, and how its signature ‘modes’ indicate its sound and response
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VideoJohn-Henry Crawford performs Popper etude no.3
A performance that will make you forget that this etude is in five flats
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Gallery‘Noah’s violin’ to take to the Venetian canals in September
The latest sculpture by wood carver Livio de Marchi will symbolise the ‘rebirth’ of Venice following Covid
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FocusStick your neck out: the pros and cons of adjustable necks
In this extract from the August 2021 issue, Joseph Curtin discusses how he experimented with adjustable necks, progressing from the various changes made in connecting an instrument’s neck to its body since the Baroque era
