In this video the Latvian violinist Roberts Balanas, who has been broadcasting a series of virtuosic covers throughout lockdown, plays Bobby Hebb’s Sunny on a 6-string violin with loop pedal cover.
Watch Interview with Latvian violinist Roberts Balanas
Watch Elton John’s I’m still Standing - arranged for solo violin
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The free festival will take place between 21 – 24 and 28 – 30 July 2021, with a focus on innovative approaches to music education, diversity and inclusion
The work is scored for solo cello, analogue synthesisers, piano and string orchestra and explores ‘the presence of absence’
In this interview Hannah Nepilova speaks to the Latvian violinist Roberts Balanas - a classically trained solo violinist who, since the start of lockdown, has been streaming his own virtuosic cover arrangements of non-classical pieces. Many have gone viral, including a cover of Elton John’s ‘I’m Still Standing’ which was ...
Bernsted performs a solo work that she describes as having ‘complexity like a kaleidoscope’
Check out a string chamber version of Vaughan Williams’s beloved work for violin
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Oesi and pianist Andrea Vasi perform Bottesini’s Allegro Di Concerto ’Alla Mendelssohn,’ which was released as a single last week
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