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ArticleSirena Huang performs at Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition 2017
22-year-old US violinist Sirena Huang performs in the semi-final round of the inaugural Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition (EOIVC), which concluded at Florida’s Lynn Conservatory of Music on Sunday 5 February 2017.Her programme includes the first movement of Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto and the first movement of Tchaikovsky's ...
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Blogs10 tips for winning a chamber music competition
The Notos Quartet has won numerous competitions - including the Parkhouse Award in London in 2011, Premio Vittorio Gui in Florence in 2013, the Almere Competition in the Netherlands in 2016 and the Schoenfeld Competition in China in 2016. Here they offer advice to aspiring chamber groups
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BlogsHow to bring 'grain' to your sound - cellist and baritone Matthew Sharp
The British artist describes how to use the body to create a 'fearlessness of expression' and to give the sound meaning 'beyond surface preoccupations'
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BlogsHow do I overcome the fear of not being good enough?
Brian Hodges and Diana Allan answer student questions on coping with stage fright
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Focus'Students should find the original score, not just rely on the Internet' - cellist Christophe Coin
For Christophe Coin, the French cellist, gambist and musical time-traveller, historically informed performance practice involves a combination of forensic-level investigation and leap-of-faith creativity, he tells Helen Wallace
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BlogsIntermediary notes are unnecessary for shifting
One the great pedagogical minds of the 20th Century, Yuri Yankelevich (1909-1973) wrote an extremely detailed treatise on shifting that has now been published in English by Oxford University Press. Translator Masha Lankovsky takes a look at one of his conclusions
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ArticleViolinist James Ehnes performs Flight of the Bumblebee
Violinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong perform Jascha Heifetz's arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee in December 2015 to promote of Ehnes's 40th birthday tour. Watch: David Garrett sets Guinness World Record for Fastest Violin Player with Flight of the Bumblebee Watch: Cellist performs Flight ...
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FocusPsychoanalysing Mozart
Are the frequent mood swings in Mozart's violin works a symptom of operatic composing, or of his affliction with a rare psychiatric disorder? Rok Klopčič offers some thoughts
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BlogsConquering performance nerves: how can I become more comfortable during lessons?
Brian Hodges and Diana Allan answer student questions on coping with stage fright
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ArticleAn orchestra of 90 double basses
90 double bass players of the Korea Double Bass Association perform 'The Death of Ase', 'Anitra's Dance' and 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' from Grieg's Peer Gynt at the Seoul Arts Center, South Korea in October 2011.Watch: 1,000 cellists perform in JapanRead: Too few conductors understand ...
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BlogsSing your way to string playing perfection - violinist Jack Liebeck
Breath control is very much like bow control, says the British violinist and Royal Academy of Music professor
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ArticleChristophe Coin performs Vivaldi on 5-string violoncello piccolo
Christophe Coin, who is interviewed in The Strad's February 2017 issue, performs Vivaldi's Cello Concerto RV 414 in G on a five-string violoncello piccolo with Il Giardino Armonico.Read: Ask the Experts - obtaining a five-string celloRead: Violoncello da spalla – story of a rediscovery
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ArticleViolinist David Garrett performs Bazzini's Dance of the Goblins New Year's Eve 2016
German violinist David Garrett performs Bazzini's Dance of the Goblins as part of the New Year's Eve show on Russian television station Kultura, 31 December 2016. Watch: David Garrett sets Guinness World Record for Fastest Violin Player Watch: Violinist Maxim Vengerov performs Bazzini’s Dance of the Goblins
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Premium ❘ FocusHow to develop an expressive vibrato
Just one beautiful note is all we need as a starter for a gorgeous vibrato, writes Phyllis Young
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ArticleCellist Gary Hoffman gives Tchaikovsky masterclass 2016
In each case your shift is taking place on the new bow rather than the old bow, which means you're not anticipating the new position.' Gary Hoffman gives a cello masterclass at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel on Tchaikovsky's Pezzo capriccioso, op.62 on 9 May 2016. The ...
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FocusViolinist Anne-Sophie Mutter on authenticity in musical performance
We may never truly 'know' composers such as Mozart and Beethoven because we live in vastly different times, but that does not diminish the validity of 21st-century interpretations, the violinist tells Andrew Farach-Colton
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Article15-year-old violist Tabea Zimmermann performs at Geneva Music Competition in 1982
15-year-old Tabea Zimmermann performs Stamitz's Viola Concerto in D major, op.1 with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at the final of the 1982 Geneva International Music Competition - which she won. Zimmermann will join violinist Antje Weithaas and cellist Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt as new professors at Germany’s ...
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ArticleJanine Jansen performs Brahms Violin Concerto at 2016 Nobel Prize Concert
Janine Jansen performed Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gianandrea Noseda at the 2016 Nobel Prize Concert in Stockholm Concert Hall on 8 December 2016. The star violinist replaced tenor Jonas Kaufmann who cancelled his appearance at the event due to a ...
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Blogs'Taking part in competitions improved my playing tremendously,' says violinist Ray Chen
The former winner of the Menuhin and Queen Elisabeth contests advises young musicians to stop thinking about prizes and instead to use competitions as vehicles for self-improvement
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ArticleQuintet dream team: Joshua Bell, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky, Henning Kraggerud, Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello), Joshua Bell (violin), Henning Kraggerud (violin) and Yuri Bashmet (viola) come together in a dream lineup to perform Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, op.57 at the 2008 Verbier Festival. Read: ‘I often have to battle negative thoughts on stage,’ says violinist Joshua Bell ...
