All Jascha Heifetz articles
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FocusBorn on this day: Violinist Jascha Heifetz
Read about the renowned violinist and teacher who inspired (and frightened) scores of players
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Focus‘Don’t write it down. Remember it!’ - Inside Jascha Heifetz’s teaching studio
Heifetz’s former personal accompanist Ayke Agus recalls the violinist’s incentives and methods for getting the best from his students
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FocusHeifetz Cadenzas: Beethoven Violin Concerto
Bruce Dukov presents previously unpublished cadenzas for the Beethoven Violin Concerto. From November 1990
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FocusJascha Heifetz the 16-year-old prankster
Jascha Heifetz’s US debut at Carnegie Hall in October 1917 sealed the 16-year-old’s reputation as an astonishing and unruffled performer - but for all his musical maturity, Heifetz was still just a teenager, as Dario Sarlo reveals
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VideoGreat Violinists of the 20th Century
Itzhak Perlman on Jascha Heifetz, Hilary Hahn on David Oistrakh, Ida Haendel on Yehudi Menuhin and more: this 2001 film by Bruno Monsaingeon pulls together archive footage and interviews with great violinists of the 20th century.
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VideoJascha Heifetz and Erick Friedman play the Largo from Bach’s Double Violin Concerto
The classic duo plays Bach in this video from 1962
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VideoHeifetz, Gershwin: It Ain't Necessarily So
Jascha Heifetz plays his own arrangement of Gershwin’s ’It Ain’t Necessarily So’ from Porgy and Bess
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FocusJascha Heifetz – champion of modern violins
Dario Sarlo reveals a lesser-known passion of the great violinist, and how it led him to start his own lutherie competition
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VideoHeifetz and Reiner on Carnegie Hall
Jascha Heifetz and Fritz Reiner ruminate on the experience of performing at Carnegie Hall minutes before going on stage with Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
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FocusViolinist Jascha Heifetz's first appearance in The Strad, October 1912
The legendary artist was first mentioned in The Strad at the age of eleven following several well-received performances
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FocusThe darker side of Heifetz the autocratic teacher
The great violinist was an inspirational teacher but not always kind or reasonable, remembers former student Gwen Thompson-Robinow
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Focus7 tips from the class of Jascha Heifetz
Sherry Kloss was Heifetz’s student and later teaching assistant – he even left her a Tononi violin and a Tourte bow in his will. Here she recalls some of the master’s methods
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VideoHeifetz, Piatigorsky and Rubinstein talk and perform
Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and Artur Rubinstein rehearse and talk to camera in this fascinating film from the late 1940s/early 1950s.
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VideoHeifetz plays Kreisler: Reccitativo and Scherzo, op.6
Fritz Kreisler’s Reccitativo and Scherzo op.6, sometimes referred to as the Scherzo-Caprice, is the great virtuoso’s only solo violin work. It was dediated to Eugène Ysaÿe. It is performed in this recording by Jascha Heifetz.
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Focus100 years ago today: Heifetz's US debut at Carnegie Hall
The Carnegie Hall recital sealed the 16-year-old’s reputation as an astonishing and unruffled performer, set a new bar for violin playing and led to a season full of engagements and a recording contract, as Dario Sarlo reveals
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NewsJascha Heifetz and Family Collection to be auctioned
The Mossgreen Australia online auction of items belonging to the great violin virtuoso opens on Wednesday 22 March 2017
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NewsYurina Arai wins Jascha Heifetz International Violin Competition 2017
Held every four years, the contest took place from 13-19 February in Vilnius, Lithuania, chaired by violinist Gidon Kremer
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ArticleLuthier Hans Benning remembers violinist Jascha Heifetz
One day he came into my shop, randomly picked up a bow and played about ten notes on it. 'It's mine,' he said. 'But Mr Heifetz,' I said, 'that's a cello bow!'' 'He was a deep thinking man. He would tell me, 'Hans, it's very lonely at ...
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Premium ❘ FocusJosef Gingold and Jascha Heifetz are my violin heroes, says Joshua Bell
The American violinist remembers the warmth of his teacher, Josef Gingold, and his admiration for Jascha Heifetz in this interview with Ariane Todes from The Strad Violin Heroes edition
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Premium ❘ FeatureHis master's pupil: how Erick Friedman struggled in the shadow of Jascha Heifetz
Erick Friedman, Heifetz's first student and a virtuoso in his own right, was frustrated by continual comparisons to his teacher. Dennis Rooney looks back at his life
