All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 690
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NewsWinners of the 2025 Il Piccolo Violino Magico competition announced
South Korean violinist Choi Soojin took home the €5,000 first prize
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NewsPartial success for Newark violin making students as one-year courses announced
The new courses will cost £4,000 and students will receive certificates of competency on completion
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NewsResults announced for the 13th Vaclav Huml International Violin Competition
The top three winners took home prizes worth €12,000 and a series of concert dates
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NewsRenaud Capuçon cancels three summer festival performances
The violinist’s 14, 15 and 16 July concerts will go ahead with revised programmes and musicians
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NewsPrizes awarded at the 2025 Ysaÿe International Violin Competition
13-year-old Yoojun Curtis Lee and 20-year-old Julian Kainrath took home the junior and senior category first prizes respectively
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NewsMan arrested over theft of 285-year-old violin, worth £150k
A 43-year-old man has been arrested for suspicion of theft of the violin, stolen from a London pub earlier this year
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NewsNew principal second violinist at the LA Phil
Canadian violinist Melody Ye Yuan will move from the orchestra’s first violin section to the principal role
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NewsLatvian cellist Marta Sudraba has died
The cellist, who was a member of Kremerata Baltica since 1997, was 50
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NewsFormer Mozarteum Salzburg director Reinhart von Gutzeit has died aged 78
The influential music professor was also a respected teacher of violin, viola and conducting
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Premium ❘ ArticleAugust 2025: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the August 2025 issue which stars genre-defying South African cellist Abel Selaocoe
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NewsViolin and cello candidates announced for Harbin’s Schoenfeld International String Competition second round
14 musicians in both the violin and cello divisions have progressed to take part in the competition’s second round on 17 and 18 July, where competitors will perform sonata repertoire, a virtuosic piece, plus a Chinese commission
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NewsObituary: violist Karen Ritscher (1952-2025)
The influential violist had a wide-ranging career in performance and academia, with a special interest in movement and self-expression as a champion of Karen Tuttle’s coordination approach
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BlogsEnhancing musical performance: the power of pre-performance routines
How can your routine before a performance affect how you play? Cellist and researcher Joanna Latała investigates actions that can help aid musical performance and consistency
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VideoAt the World’s Edge: Huw Watkins String Trio no.2
The release of the recording follows the launch of the Chicago edition of the New Zealand-born At the World’s Edge Festival, which aims to connect the creative communities of Chicago, the US and New Zealand
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NewsPioneering double bassist Gary Karr has died
Karr’s extraordinary musicianship and technical prowess made him one of the world’s most influential bassists
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NewsEnsembles announced for the Schoenfeld International String Competition chamber music division
Nine chamber groups will perform on the 21 July final
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BlogsConcert review: an evening at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s 2025 Summer Festival
US correspondent Thomas May attends Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival concert on 15 July 2025
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Blogs‘A dream finally realised’: Rachel Barton Pine on recording French chamber works with old friends
The violinist discusses long-standing musical friendships, the lyrical intensity of Chausson’s Concert and the overlooked brilliance of Germaine Tailleferre.
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VideoCellist Sterling Elliott performs Kevin Day’s ‘Gymnopédie I’
Elliott and pianist Wynona Wang perform the ‘dreamy and otherworldly’ work for the Lincoln Center’s Sidewalk Sessions
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NewsNew professor of violin at the University of Music and Theatre Munich
Sarah Christian will start in the role on 1 October this year
