Merz Trio Wins Gold at the 2019 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition

With more than 60 ensembles reaching the quarterfinals from more than 20 countries, the 46th annual Fischoff Chamber Music Competition has come to a close, and announced its winners: the New England Conservatory–based Merz Trio, made up of violinist Brigid Coleridge,…

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter Named 2019 Polar Music Prize Laureate

By Cristina Schreil The work is titled “Ghost Trio.” Yet in describing it, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter bounds with her characteristic liveliness. She says it’s a “masterpiece as poetic as it is intellectually challenging, and a great joy to play.” Mutter paints…

Daniel Arlig

Shop Talk with Luthier Daniel Arlig

What’s your favorite part of the process of making an instrument—what day to you most look forward to? One of the most exciting days in the process of making an instrument is Day 1. That is the day (or sometimes…


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JACK Quartet

Strings Sessions Presents: JACK Quartet

The JACK Quartet stopped by the Strings studio to perform three early-music pieces arranged by JACK violinist Chris Otto: Thomas Morley’s Christie’s Cross; Solage’s Fumeux fume par fumee; and Rodericus’ Angelorum Psalat.


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Vitamin String Quartet

Vitamin String Quartet’s Titanic ‘Love Letter’ to Bjork

By Cristina Schreil In their 20th anniversary season, the Los Angeles-based string collective VSQ—the Vitamin String Quartet—is doing something big. Known for their classical arrangements of popular-music songs, VSQ delved deep into one artist who’s also known for pushing the…


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Frank Almond

‘Plucked’ Film Premiere

By Brian Wise The January 2014 theft of the “Lipinski” Stradivari from Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond was unusual not just for its violent dimensions, but for the attention it brought to the world of high-end string instruments. It…


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