All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 618
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NewsCellist Bryan Cheng wins 2023 Virginia Parker Prize
The prize, worth CAD25,000, is awarded to an outstanding musician by the Canada Council for the Arts
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FocusDouble Acts: Annette and Steven Isserlis
They may tease each other terribly, but siblings Annette and Steven Isserlis still get a kick out of being on stage together
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VideoWarren & Flick presents new violin and double bass duet ‘Three Forks of Cheat’
The violin and double bass duo performs an arrangement of a traditional American tune in an effort to expand repertoire for the instrumentation
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NewsNever-before-seen documentary to spotlight Cleveland Quartet’s 1988 Soviet tour
Read more news stories here In an evening of music, history and live performances, the educational website CelloBello will present an event celebrating the history of the Cleveland Quartet on Wednesday 29 November at Reinberger Chamber Hall in Severance Music Center. The event marks a reunion of ...
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FocusMy experience: violinist Edith Cnockaert, Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel
Studying at this conservatorium fulfils a lifelong dream and provides a warm, supportive atmosphere, shares the violinist
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NewsViolist Shanda Lowery-Sachs has died
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra violist had been battling cancer
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News‘Compares well to Paganini’s most difficult writing!’: Pieter Schoeman on Florence Price’s Violin Concerto no.2
Ahead of a performance on 29 November, the London Philharmonic Orchestra leader recalls the joys and challenges of a work he’d not heard until a few years ago, as well as tips and advice for those learning the piece
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NewsNew head at the Violin Making School of America
Sanghoon Lee becomes the VMSA’s new owner, director, and head instructor
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NewsWinners announced for the 1st International W. Kamiński Violin Making Competition
First prize of PLN 15,000 (£3,000) was awarded to Polish luthier Martyna Reske, as well as an honourable mention of PLN 2,000 (£400) for her other submitted instrument
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NewsJulian Lloyd Webber receives London Cello Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award
The cellist received the award at the society’s season-opening concert on 19 November 2023
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NewsManchester Camerata names recipients of inaugural fellowship
This year’s cohort for the Camerata 360° Ruth Sutton Fellowship include two violinists, a violist, double bassist and composer/multi-instrumentalist, who will take part in a year-long training programme with the orchestra
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FocusDouble Acts: Andrew Fairfax and Anneleen Fairfax-van der Grinten
Husband-and-wife violin makers and restorers Andrew Fairfax and Anneleen Fairfax-van der Grinten talk about their different professional strengths and their shared love of books, wine and Italy
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NewsNew study finds three in ten UK musicians suffer from low mental wellbeing
The study from Help Musicians and Musicians’ Union of nearly 6,000 UK musicians found that those at the start of their careers were most impacted
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NewsViolinist Bohdan Luts wins Long-Thibaud Competition
The 18-year-old Ukrainian receives the €35,000 First Grand Prize, as well as the audience prize, the press jury prize and the Prize of the French Republican Guard Orchestra
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FocusMy experience: violist Élise Hiron, Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, Sion campus
Studying in the beautiful Swiss city of Sion reaps plenty of performance opportunities, says the violist
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NewsTrio Basilea wins Swiss Chamber Music Competition
The piano trio received CHF5,000 at the national competition for up-and-coming string ensembles
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NewsMissing: violin, bows and musical equipment in Portland, Oregon
Instruments and equipment worth tens of thousands of pounds were stolen from Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas on 13 November 2023
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NewsViolinist Ava Bahari signs with Harrison Parrott
The Swedish violinist joins the roster for general worldwide management
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NewsLost Guarneri documents resurface after nearly a century
Florian Leonhard shares some insights from recent investigations of a freshly re-discovered volume of archives, which mainly focus on the presence of Andrea Guarneri (1623-1698) and his sons
