All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 666
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NewsString players shine in inaugural Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach rising artists cohort
Top young string players Angela Chan, Matthew Hakkarainen, Brian Isaacs and Sara Scanlon will enjoy intensive performance, career development and community engagement opportunities in Florida
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NewsViolinist Tessa Lark takes up new artistic director role
The Grammy-nominated violinist has been named artistic director of the Moab Music Festival in Utah
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NewsElster Trio wins the Polytechnical Society eV Chamber Music prize
The Frankfurt-based ensemble receives €5,000
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NewsThe Royal Conservatoire of Scotland receives Gasparo da Salò cello
The cello comes as a bequest by the late cellist Vivien Mackie
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Blogs‘A perfect mind obsessed with understanding the quality of violins’: a tribute to George Stoppani
The Strad’s lutherie consultant Philip Ihle recalls the analytical methods of his friend and colleague, who died on 25 December 2024
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NewsObituary: Violinist Ayla Erduran (1934-2025)
A pioneering Turkish violinist who performed widely around the world and whose career spanned many decades has died at the age of 90
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NewsCellist Mischa Maisky announces post-surgery return
The concert engagement follows six months of rehabilitation
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NewsThe Argus Quartet welcomes two new members
Violinist Sam Parrini and cellist Drake Driscoll replace departing founding violinist Clara Kim and cellist Mariel Roberts
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NewsAustralian Chamber Orchestra brings in new full-time violinist
Australian violinist Tim Yu has joined the award-winning chamber ensemble
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NewsViolinist Anne Akiko Meyers withdraws from performances due to Los Angeles fires
The US violinist was due to perform with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra this weekend
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NewsBritish studio concertmaster Perry Montague-Mason has died
The violinist, whose recording career was bookended with the soundtracks of two Gladiator films 25 years apart, was 68
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NewsTime for Three’s bassist signs with Opus 3 Artists
Ranaan Meyer is the sole double bassist on Opus 3 Artists’ roster
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NewsYCAT invites applications for 2025 cohort
Successful artists will receive performance opportunities, bespoke management and career support for three to five years
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News£100k up for grabs in Continuo Foundation’s latest grants for early music projects
Grants will support projects taking place in the UK from May to October 2025 for period-instrument ensembles, with categories for established and emerging groups
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NewsHandwritten manuscript of a Beethoven string quartet movement returns to Bonn, 200 years after composition
Beethoven-Haus Bonn has acquired the autograph manuscript of the fourth movement from Beethoven’s String Quartet op.130 ’Alla Danza tedesca’, which was confiscated by Nazis from the Petschek family during the Second World War
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BlogsThe Giorgis family of violin makers: a response
Philip Kass gives his thoughts on Claudio Amighetti’s investigation into the lives of Turin maker Nicola Giorgis and his daughter Francesca Maria, published in the November 2024 issue
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NewsPremio Paganini: 70 years of violin excellence
Find out everything you need to know and apply for the 58th edition of the Premio Paganini, which will take place from 14 to 26 October 2025 in Genoa
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ArticleRemembering the legendary violinist Nathan Milstein
On the 121st anniversary of the birth of the great Russian–American violinist Nathan Milstein on 13 January 1904, Robert Levin shares his personal recollections of hearing, meeting and eventually studying with the virtuoso
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BlogsBryony Gibson-Cornish: How I acquired my dream Amati viola
Bryony Gibson-Cornish, violist with the Marmen Quartet, explains the remarkable chain of events that led her to acquire her dream instrument – a 1610 Brothers Amati viola – thanks to the Stradivari Trust
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NewsBritish dendrochronologist John Topham has died
The Mittenwald-trained luthier was sought by museums around the world, auctioneers and dealerships for his dendrochronological examinations
