All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 577
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News‘It’s a huge juggle’: new research highlights financial deficit among classical musician parents
The research has found musicians who are parents, especially women, are at a financial disadvantage and under pressure to subsidise earnings
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News‘A direct attack on our main working tool’: Petition to protect pernambuco from restrictions
The petition is a reaction to the proposal by the Brazilian government to classify pernambuco wood under Appendix I of CITES regulations
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NewsLeonkoro Quartet wins 2022 Merito String Quartet Award
A prize package worth €50,000 will go towards the quartet’s artistic development, as well as a composition commission to be premiered at the Wiener Konzerthaus
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News20-year-old violinist wins the 2022 Wieniawski Violin Competition
Violinist Hina Maeda will receive a cash prize of €50,000
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NewsParis concertmaster Philippe Aïche dies, 59
The violinist was leader of the Orchestre de Paris since 1985
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NewsUruguayan violinist Jorge Risi dies aged 82
The violinist and educator touched many lives through his work in Latin America and Italy
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FocusThe value of good tools: Instruments of the Emerson Quartet
The members of the Emerson Quartet speak about the relationships with their instruments and favoured luthier Samuel Zygmuntowicz
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Blogs‘It begins with awareness of the unmistakable link between music and emotions’ - Sarah Daramy-Williams
Violinist Sarah Daramy-Williams explores a more holistic approach to creating music outside the rigid forms and boxes of the traditional classical world
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Blogs‘Throw, snatch, shower, cascade’: How United Strings of Europe combines string playing with jugglers
Music director and violinist Julian Azkoul shares what it’s like to perform with live-action jugglers in a new work exploring social and artistic recovery
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NewsPrizes awarded at 2022 Bottesini Double Bass Competition
Argentinian double bassist Juliàn Medina wins a copy of Bottesini’s Testore bass, worth €30,000
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NewsRaphaela Gromes acquires 1740 Carlo Bergonzi cello
The cello, made in the workshop of Antonio Stradivari, is one of only three Bergonzi cellos known in existence
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NewsA piece of cake: the LPO celebrates 90 years with music-loving Bake Off contestant
Great British Bake Off semi-finalist Jürgen Krauss presented a Showstopper cake for the orchestra’s milestone anniversary
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Blogs‘The harrowing history of apartheid underpins the work’: Samantha Ege
Samantha Ege offers her insights working with Castle of our Skins on their programme of chamber works from the African continent and diaspora
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VideoSphinx Organization cellists perform Bachianas Brasileiras no.5
The recording features soprano and Sphinx Medal of Excellence winner Raquel González
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NewsViolinist Yamen Saadi begins role as concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera
The violinist will now take up the joint position of concertmaster at the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic
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GalleryA walk through the Giovanni Bottesini exhibition
An exhibition celebrating the life and times of the influential double bassist was held from 10 to 18 October in Crema, Italy
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BlogsA Musician’s Ten Commandments: Cellist David Finckel
How to enjoy a sustainable and fulfilling musical career through ten guiding principles
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NewsMetropolitan Opera welcomes violinist Angela Wee as its principal associate concertmaster
The violinist auditioned for the position the day after flying back from a six-week tour of Asia
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BlogsPernambuco: the worst-case scenario
British luthier Benjamin Hebbert outlines the long-term devastating effects to musicians and makers that would result from the classification of pernambuco to CITES Appendix I in November
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FocusThe Strad Podcast #64: Cellist Sophie Kauer on her role in ‘TÁR’
The 21-year-old stars alongside Cate Blanchett in a feature film following the life of high-powered composer-conductor Lydia Tár
