All viola articles – Page 2
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VideoMasterclass video: Paul Laraia on Glazunov’s Elegy in G minor
The US violist discusses the one-movement piece in the May 2023 issue of The Strad
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NewsStradivari Trust founder Nigel Brown dies aged 77
The enterprise founded by the UK businessman and philanthropist has helped more than 60 musicians obtain fine instruments and bows
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2023: c.1610 Maggini viola
This large and beautiful-sounding viola features a one-piece spruce front with unusually wide grain
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Premium ❘ FeatureViolist Cynthia Phelps on studying with William Primrose and Donald McInnes
For some players, only the viola sound will do. But to bring out its full power, the New York Philharmonic violist sought help from a number of teachers, writes Ariane Todes
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FocusThe harmonious string quartet - a balance of four personality types
No one said that living in a quartet was easy - but the most successful groups develop a unique identity that survives vitriolic relationships and even personnel changes, writes Paul Robertson. From 2005
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Premium ❘ DebateHow should string teachers approach an advanced adult pupil?
Understanding the physique and psyche of a new adult pupil should not be taken lightly, writes Pauline Harding
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Blogs‘When I am in tune, my body knows it’: playing with multisensory aphantasia
How do you tell a story with music when your mind cannot picture images? Violist and clinical telehealth therapist Neesa Sunar explains her tactile approach to music making
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VideoMasterclass: The Takács Quartet performs Brahms’s String Quartet no.3
Violist Richard O’Neill gives his thoughts on performing the work in the November 2021 issue
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NewsBulgarians and Italians take top awards at ANLAI violin making competition
The contest saw a hundred instruments by luthiers from ten countries assessed, with the award ceremony taking place in the historic Church of Santa Maria della Neve
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ReviewBook review: Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire
Carlos Maria Solare reviews David M. Bynog’s latest book, the latest in the Notes for Performers series
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FocusHow it started, how it’s going: four top violists share their beginnings
In this compilation of extracts from our regular feature ‘Life Lessons,’ read about how four leading viola players started out on their instrument
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NewsViolist Yuchen Lu wins 2021 Klein International String Competition
The 22-year-old Chinese musician wins $13,000 and a number of performance contracts
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NewsWinners announced at SVA Violin Makers Competition
The contest, which takes place every two years, was held according to strict Covid-19 guidance
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ReviewBook review: The Baroque Violin & Viola: A Fifty-Lesson Course
Simon Standage reviews Walter S. Reiter’s two-volume work on learning to play the period instruments
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NewsMusicians criticise easyJet’s changed policy on instruments
Violins and violas among those to be barred as hand luggage from 10 February onwards
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ArticleYuri Bashmet: TikTok star?
The Russian violist considers how to tempt audiences back to the concert hall
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NewsViolist Tasso Adamopoulos has died aged 76
The Paris-born musician was also a respected tutor at conservatoires in Lyon and Bordeaux
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ReviewBook review: Get Beethoven!
Tully Potter reads the very readable autobiography of Paul Cassidy, violist with the Brodsky Quartet
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2021: Francesco and Giovanni Grancino viola c.1665
The varnish of the Grancino is most beautiful and wonderfully well preserved
