Violinist Kyung Wha Chung and pianist Kevin Kenner

Musical Partnerships: Kyung Wha Chung and Kevin Kenner

The word “accompanist” can be a loaded one in the world of classical music. A pianist who usually appears on stage along with another musician is typically called an  accompanist–a term that, for some pianists, suggests they are simply there…

Going with the Force at the Verbier Festival

By Inge Kjemtrup Kyung Wha Chung is routinely described as a “force of nature,” an expression that, along with “living legend,” is so overused as to have become pretty much meaningless. But I can sympathize with those who end up…

Verbier Festival Opens with Violinist Kyung Wha Chung

By Inge Kjemtrup That mountain road, again. Like all music festivals based in hard-to-reach locations, Switzerland’s Verbier Festival can make everyone who manages to overcome multiple travel challenges feel that they deserve a huge round of applause for simply arriving…

Strings Sessions Presents: Rhythm Future Quartet

The Rhythm Future Quartet, comprised of violinist Jason Anick, guitarists Olli Soikkeli and Max O’Rourke and bassist Greg Loughman, stopped by the Strings studio to offer up some gypsy-jazz tunes. Watch the quartet perform “Sleepless,” a composition Anick co-wrote with his…


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Review: James Ehnes ‘Violin Sonatas: Elgar/Debussy/Respighi’

By Cristina Schreil Canadian violinist James Ehnes has once again assembled a pleasing collection of beautiful violin sonatas. Delivering sensitive performances with pianist Andrew Armstrong, Ehnes taps into the evocative emotional power of four works from the early 1900s—here, Debussy’s…

Mostly Mozart Festival

Mostly Mozart Festival Celebrates 50 Years

By Martin Steinberg Mozart is turning 50 this summer. No, not Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus (Amadeus), but the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York’s Lincoln Center. When it began in the summer of 1966, it was called Midsummer Serenades: A…


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Calidore String Quartet

5 Minutes with the Calidore String Quartet

In February, the Manhattan-based Calidore String Quartet (violinists Jeffrey Myers and Ryan Meehan, violist Jeremy Berry, and cellist Estelle Choi) joined eight soloists and ensembles on the roster of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust (BBT) Award and Fellowship winners for 2016. This…


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Manhattan Chamber Players

How to Create the Ideal Chamber Group

By Luke Fleming Classical musicians are often considered lucky by people in other professions because we spend all our time doing what we love and loving what we do. I am inclined to agree with this viewpoint—but not without some…

UK-Based Musicians’ Union Responds to Brexit

The Musicians’ Union, a UK-based organization comprised of more than 30,000 musicians, has responded to “Brexit,” Britain’s referendum in which a majority voted in favor of leaving the European Union. In a June 27 statement on the organization’s website, John…


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