All Steven Isserlis articles – Page 2
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FocusSteven Isserlis: What we can learn from the great players of the past
In his guest editorial for the Strad’s October 2013 issue, the cellist introduced a focus on what 21st-century artists can learn from some of the greatest players of the previous century
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ReviewSteven Isserlis; Dénes Várjon: Chopin
Steven Isserlis passionately argues the case for Chopin’s Cello Sonata
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Video'Playing', a short film from St Mary's Music School, Edinburgh
Violinist Nicola Benedetti and cellist Steven Isserlis feature in this new short film showing them tutoring pupils from Scotland’s national music school, St Mary’s in Edinburgh. The teenage pupils on the brink of leaving the school are violinist Sophie Williams and cellist Hugh MacKay.
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ReviewSteven Isserlis: The Cello In Wartime
Thought-provoking First World War-era project from a cello master
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VideoSteven Isserlis plays Bach on 'trench' cello
In this video from Classic FM we hear Steven Isserlis on the cello once played by Harold Triggs of the Royal Sussex Regiment in the trenches of the First World War. Read: Steven Isserlis’s trench cello encores
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FocusSteven Isserlis's trench cello encores
In 2014, when violin dealer Charles Beare introduced Steven Isserlis to a ‘box cello’ played in the trenches of the First World War, there was an instant connection. Isserlis has now recorded wartime works on the humble ‘holiday’ instrument, as he tells Kimon Daltas
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NewsClassical strings in the 60th Grammy Awards nominations
The Recording Academy unveils nominations for all categories, including nods for Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Augustin Hadelich, Steven Isserlis and Frank Peter Zimmermann
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NewsSteven Isserlis misses KLM flight due to cello seat mix up
The British cellist was due to fly from London Heathrow for concerts in Denmark, but was told that his cello’s seat, which he had booked and paid for well in advance, had been cancelled
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FocusCellist Steven Isserlis receives Cobbett Medal for services to chamber music
Inaugurated in 1924 and endowed by Walter Willson Cobbett, the medal is presented annually to a musician for services to chamber music
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ArticleViolinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis perform Brahms's Double Concerto
Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis perform Brahms's Double Concerto with the Academy of St Martinuin the Fields at the Bravo! Vail 2017 Music Festival in Colorado. The performance was recorded live on 24 June 2017 with Bell conducting from the violin. Read: ‘I often have ...
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ArticleCellist Steven Isserlis receives €25,000 Glashütte Original Music Festival Award
The artist will donate his cash prize to the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, London Music Masters and Rhapsody in School programmes
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NewsCellist Steven Isserlis receives Wigmore Medal
The British artist receives the award 'in recognition of his commitment to, and belief in Wigmore Hall and in everything that it represents'
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NewsCellist Steven Isserlis to receive €25,000 award in Germany
British cellist Steven Isserlis has been named as the winner of the 2017 Glashütte Original MusicFestivalAward. Worth €25,000, the award will be presented at the Dresden Music Festival on 23 May, when Isserlis will perform Prokofiev's Cello Concerto in E minor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under ...
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NewsSteven Isserlis appointed Royal Academy of Music visiting cello professor
The British cellist will present regular masterclasses and work with students on ‘side-by-side’ ensemble projects
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ArticleSteven Isserlis performs Dvorák Cello Concerto
British cellist Steven Isserlis performs Dvorák's Cello Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Shallon in 1991. Watch: ‘If career becomes more important than the music, your soul becomes empty,’ says cellist Steven Isserlis Watch: Cellist Steven Isserlis on using vibrato to improve phrasing
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BlogsSteven Isserlis and his Stradivarius cello – the relationship between soloist and instrument
In the process of researching his book on Stradivari instruments, Toby Faber spoke to the British cellist about the powerful connection between a musician and his instrument
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Blogs'If career becomes more important than the music, your soul becomes empty,' says cellist Steven Isserlis
Cellist Steven Isserlis on the importance of putting your art first
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ArticleSteven Isserlis
Steven Isserlis was born into a musical family in London, 1958. From 1976 to 1978 Isserlis studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Richard Kapuscinski and has cited Daniil Shafran, who he first met when interviewing the Russian cellist for The Strad in 1987, as a ...
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