All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 665
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NewsHanns Eisler School of Music appoints Nils Mönkemeyer as viola professor
The German violist will begin the role in summer 2025
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NewsViolinist Nigel Kennedy joins Sheldon Artists roster
The New Jersey-based artists’ manager will represent the British virtuoso in North America
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News24-year-old selected as new solo cellist of Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Till Schuler is a former winner of the Antonio Janigro Junior and Gustav Mahler cello competitions
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Blogs‘Deep investment in people goes far’: How the artist collective Ilumina creates a musical eco-system
Online editor Davina Shum previously described a performance by Ilumina unlike any concert she’d attended before – why? She speaks to the initiative’s founder, violist Jennifer Stumm, about the Ilumina’s ethos and motivation ahead of its tenth anniversary in January 2025
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Blogs‘A powerful sound’: what it’s like to perform with Yo-Yo Ma and the Czech Philharmonic
As part of a Royal Academy of Music SIDE-BY-SIDE scheme, the Zenith Quartet was given the chance to tour with the Czech orchestra and Semyon Bychkov. Cellist Julius Maknickas chronicles his experience during the tour’s New York City portion, where he fulfilled a lifelong dream of meeting a musical idol
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NewsFound: Violist reunited with stolen instrument and bows in Texas
Christopher Williams’ viola and bows were stolen on 17 December in Katy, TX, but were swiftly recovered the next day from a pawn shop
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NewsBras, travel woes, Olympian string players, and the end of TwoSet Violin: The Strad 2024 news round-up
We take a look at a selection of news stories from 2024 that put string players in headlines, often in unexpected ways
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NewsFinnish violinist Eriikka Maalismaa has died
The former concertmaster of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra was 44
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NewsViolinist Karen Su joins Conservatoire Royal de Mons faculty
The laureate of the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition will establish her own class next year
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NewsKreutzer Quartet violist announces departure
Violist Clifton Harrison leaves the British quartet after almost ten years
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NewsYasuko Ohtani loaned 1702 ‘Lord Newlands’ Stradivari violin
The Nippon Music Foundation has facilitated the loan to the Japanese violinist, who will celebrate the 50th anniversary of her debut in 2025
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NewsBritish luthier George Stoppani has died
An acknowledged expert in instrument acoustics, he was 75 years old
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NewsViolinist Chaim Taub has died aged 99
The Israeli violinist led the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for almost two decades
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BlogsMusic for our time: violinist Paul Huang on his new album ‘Mirrors’
The violinist speaks to The Strad about a musical journey that he hopes inspires listeners to ponder the past, present and future
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NewsLeonhard Baumgartner loaned 1683 ‘ex Petherick’ Stradivari violin
The 17-year-old says he is ’thrilled to bring the voice of this extraordinary instrument to life’
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NewsAeolus Quartet appoints new first violinist
Isabelle Durrenberger assumes the role, replacing founding member Nicholas Tavani
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NewsGerman luthier Wilhelm Brückner has died
The luthier, who created his own viola model, was 92 years old
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VideoWatch: a 1981 Leonid Kogan Paganini performance with restored audio and video
Daniel Kurganov has remastered the entirety of Kogan’s performance of Paganini Violin Concerto no.1
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BlogsThe healing power of the cello: four adult learners share their stories of overcoming adversity
What inspires someone to pick up the cello later on in life? Cellist, educator and creator of online cello school Cello Discovery Carolyn Hagler explores how learning the cello has enriched the lives of four adult learners
