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The most important concert date you will ever have is your second. Securing one concert is fine, but being asked back is the key!'
Violinist Itzhak Perlman talks about being diagnosed with Polio, winning competitions and building and sustaining a career.
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To tie in with the violin star's 70th birthday in 2015, Julian Haylock rounded up some of the master violinist’s finest recordings
Solo performer, orchestra member, teacher, conductor – most string players juggle roles. Sarah Mnatzaganian talks to some portfolio musicians to see how they do it
The unusual violin is currently on display at the ‘New Instrument Exhibit’, part of the Violin Society of America’s 2024 convention in Indianapolis
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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