All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 676
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NewsViolinist Hyeyoon Park signs with Askonas Holt
The London-based violinist joins the roster for general management, ahead of a season comprising multiple solo engagements
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NewsMidori receives 2025 ASTA Artist Teacher Award
The award celebrates the violinist’s humanitarian and educational work
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News31 period instrument ensembles receive Continuo Foundation funding, worth £100,000
The ninth round of grants will help support concerts and recording projects of early music across the UK, bringing the total amount of funding to £950,000 since the foundation’s inception in 2021
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NewsCome and meet Team Strad at the 2025 ASTA national conference!
The event is taking place from 19 to 22 March at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. We’ll be at booth 711 in the exhibition hall. See you there!
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NewsKD SCHMID expands representation of TwoSet Violin for worldwide general management of touring projects
Steering away from video content, the violin comedy duo has its sights set on an upcoming world tour
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NewsWinners announced for the Johansen International Competition for Young String Players
Violinist Valery Breshears, violist Junyan Du, and cellist Joshua Kováč each receive $10,000
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NewsWashington DC’s National Symphony Orchestra appoints associate principal violist
Violist Dana Kelley joins the Kennedy Center’s orchestra
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NewsObituary: violist and director Scott Nickrenz (1938 - 2025)
Nickrenz was an influential violist and director of chamber music, holding positions at NEC, Spoleto and most recently the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
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NewsWinners announced for the Sinfonima Foundation competition
Nine cellists from German and Swiss music academies won two-year loans of fine cellos and bows to help facilitate their career development
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BlogsAndrea Casarrubios on her Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, ‘MIRAGE’
The Spanish-American musician speaks about the upcoming premiere of her cello concerto, MIRAGE, a work that encapsulates her duality as cellist and composer, along with her cultural identity
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BlogsFiddles and folkore: Kronos Quartet transforms itself into a Hardanger band
Kronos Quartet violinist Gabriela Díaz speaks with The Strad’s US correspondent Thomas May about Elja, the ensemble’s new Hardanger fiddle collaboration with Benedicte Maurseth and Kristine Tjøgersen, which premieres at Carnegie Hall this week.
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NewsThank you ASTA!: 2025 conference photos and round-up
Explore photos and read a short round-up of The Strad’s visit to Atlanta for the 2025 ASTA conference
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NewsPhiladelphia Orchestra appoints three cellists and a violist
Jiayin He, Michael Katz and Eugene Lin join the cello section, while Hsiang-Hsin Ching is the latest addition to the viola section
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FocusA queen and a goddess: Arabella Steinbacher on her violins
Our April 2025 issue cover artist discusses her bow and instruments
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BlogsThe instrument of kings: the cello’s timeless dialogue with power and grace
Vahur Luhtsalu examines how the cello has aligned itself with royalty throughout history to the present day
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NewsNorth Carolina Symphony mourns long-standing double bassist
Erik Dyke, who was a member of the orchestra since 1978, died on 15 March, aged 69
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NewsString players to feature in Wigmore Hall’s 125th anniversary season, as the venue becomes financially self-sufficient
The London venue has voluntarily withdrawn from the Arts Council England portfolio, following successful fundraising of £10 million two years ahead of schedule
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NewsCalifornia violin thief who stole instruments and bows worth $300,000 sentenced to four years in prison
Mark Meng has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for posing as an instrument collector, stealing violins and bows from shops around the US in a theft scheme between August 2020 and April 2023
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NewsLong-standing Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra violinist retires
Violinist Tim Fisher has been a member of the orchestra for over 38 years
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NewsGagliano cello denied onboard Transavia flight
The French cellist Astrig Siranossian was refused boarding for her instrument on a Paris-Berlin flight, despite booking a seat for it
