Violinist and D’Addario & Co. product manager Lyris Hung demonstrates the company’s latest set of student strings: the Ascenté violin string set. The strings are of medium tension and are available for full-size, 3/4 or 1/2 violins, have a synthetic…
Italian-born, Grammy Award–winning violinist Augustin Hadelich started his musical journey at just five years old, when his father—a German amateur cellist and agriculturalist—introduced him to the violin. Catching occasional lessons and master classes from traveling violinists who stopped at the…
By Cristina Schreil Navigating through foggy safety goggles, I follow a mariachi band onto a Long Island factory floor. I confront a cacophony: countless machines all whir and click at once. As if conjured, an electric-bass string winds into shape…
By Cristina Schreil “Hello sugarplum.” It’s an odd thing to hear a room of people utter in unison. Then again, this crowd was unique. A black-and-white photo of late violin teacher Dorothy DeLay—the frequent speaker of this warm greeting—glowed on…
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An artist’s workspace in many ways defines the musical experience: This is the site of true musical growth, and having the right resources at hand can give that growth a boost. We asked cellist Maya Beiser, violinist Lara St. John,…
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Tarisio has announced four recipients of its annual Tarisio Trust Young Artists Grants—but there’s more: a fifth recipient will be selected via an online-voting process after July 6. The program, which offers funding for cutting-edge string-based projects, offers each recipient…
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Violinist Rachel Barton Pine stopped by the Strings studio to share three commissioned works from her American Partitas project. Watch Pine perform ‘Rag’ by Darol Anger from ‘American Partita No. 1’; ‘Prelude and Allegro’ by Billy Childs from ‘Four Portraits…
By David Templeton Photos by Roger Rich Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser want to make one thing perfectly clear. “We know how to play softly.” Sulic—laughing like a man who’s just heard himself say something for the 10,000th time—knows his…
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By Stephanie Powell Solo violinist, educator, and music-education advocate Midori has announced she will be joining the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music. Her relocation from USC’s Thronton School of Music, where she currently holds the Jascha Heifetz Chair…
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He occupies more than one slot in the pantheon of American music. Along with breaking through the race barrier multiple times, as a piano virtuoso and as a composer, George Walker continues to sustain a creative life in his 90s…
By Robert Mealy We come onto the stage of a beautiful 19th-century concert hall with an elegant half-circle of seats facing a proscenium stage. It is packed with people—some even standing in the aisles. Juilliard415 is in Chennai, India, to perform…
By James VanDemark There are few mid-level, original double-bass pieces that possess the exquisite balance of lyricism and virtuosity better than Giovanni Bottesini’s Elegy. Composed for his own use as the premiere double-bass virtuoso of his time (1821–89), Elegy is…
The Jeremy Kittel Trio, made up of Kittel on violin, mandolinist Joshua Pinkham, and guitarist Quinn Bachand, stopped by the Strings studio to perform a few tunes. Watch the trio perform “Epic Fiddle” and “At Home in the World,” a…
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By Cristina Schreil A duo known for their deep exploration of Scottish music is expanding overseas. Highlighting links between multiple cultures, fiddler Alasdair Fraser and cellist Natalie Haas perform tunes on their latest album, Ports of Call, that originate in Scandinavia,…
By Stephanie Powell Due to the dwindling sources of many traditional materials used to make bows, some makers have begun working with untraditional materials. Michael Duff began moving away from the usual supplies by developing a bow stick made of…
By Luke Fleming When I took on the formation and artistic directorship of the Manhattan Chamber Players a year and a half ago, I knew I was heaping a huge amount of responsibility upon myself, and, to be honest, I…
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