All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 674
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NewsCellist Jean-Guihen Queyras issues statement on Ukraine, ahead of US concert engagements
The cellist will honour his US performances this year, donating all proceeds to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s United24 Foundation
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VideoAriel Quartet performs Beethoven String Quartet op.18, no.5
The video performance is just part of the group’s monumental journey to record the entire Beethoven String Quartet cycle
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BlogsWhat Dame Ethel Smyth and Rebecca Clarke can teach us this International Women’s Day
Violinist Sofia Yatsyuk examines the extraordinary achievements of the two composers ahead of an album release of violin and piano works, coinciding with International Women’s Day
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VideoViolin x gaming: Esther Abrami performs music from Final Fantasy XV
The work by Yoko Shimomura will feature on Abrami’s upcoming album featuring works by all-female composers, Women
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News‘Saiga Antelope’: an album of female composers by Viktoria Elisabeth Kaunzner
Saiga Antelope is an historic concert tour programme released on CD, along with a YouTube violin concerto marathon EurAsian Flow by female composers live at Philharmonie Berlin with the Universal Korean Organic Ensemble-Viktoria & Virtuosi (UKOREVV)
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NewsString players triumph at 2025 RPS Awards
Cellist Laura van der Heijden and bassist Leon Bosch were both winners in their categories during the ceremony that took place in Birmingham
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Blogs‘The singular beauty from the tone of two solo violas heard together’: exploring works for viola duos
Peter Mallinson examines the history and challenges of writing repertoire for two violas, ahead of the release of the album Two Violas: Regeneration, celebrating the longevity, versatility and modernity of the viola duo as an ensemble
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BlogsPlay that funky folk-Baroque: Adventures in Scottish fiddling
Violinist Keir GoGwilt tells US correspondent Thomas May about The Edinburgh Rollick, his new album with the wildly inventive early music band Ruckus, which explores the legacy of 18th-century Scottish fiddle legend Niel Gow
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NewsStolen: 1900 violin by Eugenio Praga
The instrument was taken from a train carriage in northern Italy on Thursday 5 March
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NewsCello and marimba duo Stick&Bow named artist in residence at UC Davis
The duo will coach students in chamber music and commission new music, from the start of the 2025-26 season
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NewsIPCI marks 25 years of pernambuco conservation
The International Pernambuco Conservation Initiative will celebrate the anniversary with a benefit concert in May 2025
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NewsNew Kronos Quartet album to donate streaming proceeds to charity
The new album of works by Mary Kouyoumdjian will support Armenian and Lebanese communities affected by social and political conflict
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NewsViolins to honour war poets at Wilfred Owen Festival
The instruments, dedicated to Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, will be donated to the town of Oswestry at the festival’s opening on 15 March
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NewsSydney Symphony Orchestra 2025 fellows announced
Five string players have secured spots in the top Australian orchestra’s fellowship programme
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NewsRespected Ukrainian violinist and teacher Alexandre Zapolski has died aged 74
The violinist was an influential teacher in his adopted home country of Denmark
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NewsViolinist Donald Hazelwood, former Sydney Symphony concertmaster, has died aged 95
The much-loved and highly respected violinist was concertmaster with the SSO for 33 years, from 1956 until his retirement in 1998
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NewsRecord breaker: ‘Baron Knoop’ Stradivari violin sells for $23 million
The price for the 1715 instrument, crafted in Stradivari’s ‘golden period’, is the highest for any violin in history
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BlogsBeyond the violin: how the Echo Collective creates soundscapes on stringed instruments
The Echo Collective explores the sonic possibilities of stringed instruments on its new album Mirror Image, using extended techniques and technology
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BlogsMonk, Bach and Beyond: The ETHEL Quartet with Ron Carter at Carnegie Hall
In advance of ETHEL Quartet’s Carnegie Hall debut, cellist Dorothy Lawson speaks with US correspondent Thomas May about their collaboration with the programme’s featured guest artist, legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter.
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NewsLong-standing Orpheus Chamber Orchestra violist Christof Huebner has died
The Austrian-born violist, 61, had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2022
