All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 693
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NewsNew cello professor in Maryland
Juan Sebastián Delgado will join the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, faculty in autumn 2025
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NewsCologne University of Music and Dance appoints historical violin and viola professor
German violinist Nadja Zwiener takes up the role
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NewsNorwegian cellist loaned Guadagnini once owned by Rostropovich
Amalie Stalheim has been granted the use of the 1783 G.B. Guadagnini cello from the start of the 2025–26 season
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NewsBritten Sinfonia appoints new leader
Violinist Zoë Beyers will appear as leader with the ensemble in performances this summer and early 2026, before assuming the role fully for the 2026/27 season
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NewsNew string appointments for Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Double bassist Ha Young Jung takes up the role of principal bass, and violist Andrew Eng joins the section
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NewsNovo Quartet takes up residency at RNCM
The Danish group has been named ensemble in association for 2025/26
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NewsFormer long-standing Cincinnati Symphony cellist has died
Norman E. Johns was formerly assistant principal cellist of the orchestra, having joined 50 years ago in 1975
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BlogsBeyond the standard repertoire: Justin Bruns on Lou Harrison’s radical violin concerto at Cabrillo
The Cabrillo Festival Orchestra concertmaster discusses the challenges and joys of performing Harrison’s joyfully unorthodox Violin Concerto with Percussion Orchestra – an iconoclastic work rooted in personal expression and cross-cultural sound worlds.
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NewsNew cello professor at the Yehudi Menuhin School Qingdao
Joanna Sachryn will join the school in October 2025
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VideoSignum Quartet performs Priaulx Rainier’s Scherzo
The work features on the quartet’s new album A Dark Flaring, which spotlights works by South African composers
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Article‘The two most memorable days of my entire professional life’: meeting Shostakovich in 1972
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death, Michael Downes speaks to the original members of the Fitzwilliam Quartet about their recollections of meeting the great Russian composer in York and performing his String Quartet no.13
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BlogsRewriting the score: women’s voices from the Gilded Age
Chicago-based violinist Charlene Kluegel and pianist Katherine Petersen, who together form Duo FAE, uncover the feminist undercurrents of three Gilded Age composers in their new album.
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NewsObituary: violinist Anna Lemiszka (1971-2025)
The violinist was a long-time member of the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw
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Focus‘City of Music’ - a report from Harbin’s Schoenfeld International String Competition
The recent competition, which was held in July 2025, is described as ’a multifaceted platform bridging the cultures of East and West, Old and New, Local and Global.’ The Strad takes a look at the festivities
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BlogsCommemorating 50 years since Shostakovich’s death: violist Paul Neubauer and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott
The duo share their thoughts on a new album featuring the composer’s Cello Sonata arranged for viola, the recently discovered Impromptu and the monumental Viola Sonata
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NewsUniversity of Manitoba violin professor charged with sexual assault
Oleg Pokhanovski allegedly groomed and assaulted his then-15-year-old student more than a decade ago
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News‘Nobody should have to go through that’: cellist refused boarding on Frontier Airlines
Frontier Airlines refused to accommodate for Andrew Shulman and his instrument and forced him to rebook with Delta, despite him having booked extra seats
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NewsViola and bow stolen from Mathieu Herzog
The former Ébène Quartet violist’s 2016 Charles Coquet viola was last seen at La Teste-de-Buch in southwestern France
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NewsRussian authorities place violinist Asya Sorshneva under house arrest
The violinist has pleaded guilty to making seven payments to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation between August 2021 and February 2022
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NewsSeptember 2025: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the education-themed September 2025 issue, starring German violist and educator Tabea Zimmermann
