Sponsored Story by Johnson String Instruments Our annual Graduation Sale is here! Now through June 30th, stop in to our Newton Upper Falls storefront or visit our new website to find savings on instruments, cases, sheet music, accessories and more.…
By Laurence Vittes If you want to understand what the great cellist Gregor Piatigorsky was like as a man and a cellist, and most profoundly, as a musician, start by reading Terry King’s book, Gregor Piatigorsky: The Life and Career…
By Martin Steinberg Luis Leguia was always a late starter. He was almost 15 when he began playing the cello but was good enough to study with Pablo Casals within three years. He went on to play with the Metropolitan…
From the Spring 2016 Issue of Stage & Studio | BY LOUISE LEE How you practice is a direct reflection of how you perform. Even if your playing in the practice room sounds good, you need to practice and learn…
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Gypsy-jazz duo violinist Tim Kliphuis and guitarist Sam Miltich stopped by the Strings studio while passing through the Bay Area to perform at the annual Point Richmond Jazz series. The pair played a few tunes from their latest album, Duets.…
By Matt Wehling As I round a corner in Paris, I see a French flag hanging from a third-story window. In the five years I lived in France and nearly a dozen visits since moving home to Minnesota in 2001,…
By Julian Schwarz For a string player, a great instrument is only half the equipment battle. A phenomenal bow is the other half, providing finesse, tone, and various articulations. Bows are not only vital to phrasing and color, but sometimes…
By Laurence Vittes In the 1920s, Adolf Busch was considered one of the world’s great violinists, alongside Bronislaw Huberman, Fritz Kreisler, and Carl Flesch. The importance of Busch as a soloist has dimmed, his career derailed by Hitler, the war,…
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Sponsored Story by Berg Bows Berg Bows International, of Bloomington, IN announces a Go Fund Me project to replicate the late Janos Starker’s Kittel cello bow. Nikolai Kittel was a master bow maker whose bows continue to be held in…
By Laurence Vittes Midori Gotō, whom the world knows as simply Midori, holds magna cum laude bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology from New York University and the Jascha Heifetz Chair at the Thornton School of Music at the University…
By Christopher Jacoby Instruments, like your vehicle or body, require upkeep. As the years go by, most players see their instruments develop common problems, and these problems often repeat themselves. As you wipe the rosin off your instrument, give it…
Finding time in between teaching cello at the University of Texas, El Paso, programming the Sitka Summer Music and Northwest Bach festivals, El Paso Pro Musica, the Mesa Arts Center Series, and recording with the Cypress Quartet at George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch, Zuill…
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By Megan Westberg In another incident highlighting the sometimes ambiguous nature of air travel with an instrument, violinist Rachel Barton Pine was denied boarding an American Airlines flight from Chicago’s O’Hare airport bound for Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is…
By Laurence Vittes “Kelly is the Fiddler on Broadway!” read an email Kelly Hall-Tompkins sent to friends recently after landing the gig as the Broadway Orchestra’s concertmaster in Fiddler on the Roof. Like other concert violinists performing Fiddler music—the 1971…
By Inge Kjemtrup Start with a look at the car: a rosso corsa Ferrari in the background of the cover photo. Next, observe the clothes of the figure in the foreground: smart tuxedo, bow tie, a neatly folded handkerchief in…
By Laurence Vittes On her dazzling new Hyperion CD, Alina Ibragimova identifies completely with the flow and spirit of Bach’s two standard violin concertos and three reconstructed keyboard concertos. Playing her circa 1775 Anselmo Bellosio violin with casual, 21st-century virtuosity…
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Francesca dePasquale stopped by the Strings studio to perform two movements of unaccompanied Bach from her debut self-titled album. DePasquale was born into a musical family and started playing violin at age three: her father, the late William dePasquale, served as the Philadelphia…
By Cristina Schreil Violinist Jason Anick spies a resurgence in Gypsy jazz. When the Berklee College of Music instructor lectured on the genre at the American String Teachers Association’s March conference, he encountered proof of the interest he sensed had…
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