By Inge Kjemtrup
Every three years 12 of the finest young string quartets in the world vie for first prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet C... Read More...
By Louise Lee
Ask double bassists about the downsides of playing the instrument, and they will likely point to travel. Small cars can’t accommodate the instrum... Read More...
By Cristina Schreil
For Nikolaj Znaider, recording all of Mozart’s violin concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra wasn’t simply a chance to delve deep int... Read More...
By Brian Wise
Aisha Syed-Castro, a violinist from the Dominican Republic who is now based in Miami, came to Weill Recital Hall on February 27 with a program th... Read More...
By Stephanie Powell
The New York–based Aizuri Quartet took home the grand prize at the University of Michigan’s M-Prize Chamber Music Competition. The quarte... Read More...
Under the guise of complex art music, this composer and ethnomusicologist brought Hungarian peasant culture into the concert halls of Europe
By Greg Cahill
Th... Read More...
Violinist Christian Howes stopped by the Strings studio to perform two pieces: Herbie Hancock's Chameleon and Postlude, a Howes original inspired in part by Bac... Read More...
I like the challenge of newly discovered repertoire, particularly solo repertoire. I’ve given this piece a couple of tries in performance, but I feel I have not... Read More...
By Laurence Vittes
On April 27, violinist Paul Huang kicked off a very busy stretch with a Kennedy Center recital with pianist Orion Weiss. The program inclu... Read More...
By Miranda Wilson
“Your bow’s not straight.” I found myself writing this comment again and again in undergraduate string juries, often for good players who ha... Read More...
